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London, England, United Kingdom

London And Amsterdam

o Panellist and keynote speaker for Meta, CBRE, the BBC, London School of Business, BAM, TedX and Viacom, covering parenting and flexible working. o Creative lead on pitches for RedwoodBBDO.o Sunday-Times-bestselling author of non-fiction books (Parenting the Sh*t Out of Life, and Where's My Happy Ending?) and the novel Underbelly, recently optioned by Pulse Films.o Co-host of three seasons of award-winning comedy podcast Dirty Mother Pukka.o Director at MotherPukka.co.uk, an editorial, video-led parenting platform with 450,000 social followers. We have created branded video content for Amazon, Bugaboo, Gap, Garnier, Glamour, HP, M&S, Regus, Renault and others.o Features for The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Evening Standard, Metro and others.o Copywriter for Booking.com, Heineken, Shortlist and Stylist, L'Oreal, The Body Shop, Models Own, Amsterdam Marketing, Haussmann and others.o B2B copywriter for TNT Express, Grant Thornton, Seven and Wardour.

London, England, United Kingdom

o Senior content strategist on the b2b AkzoNobel account.o Global creative lead on campaigns for the trade brands of Dulux, Cuprinol, Sikkens and others.o Guiding global briefs from first insights through strategy, creative concepts and final execution, for assets used across global markets.o Writing video concept and scripts, OOH advertising, social campaigns, leading editorial teams, working with senior design and video production teams.

London, United Kingdom

o Leading social media and content strategy.o Managing a team of eight editors and several freelancers.o Created Instagram strategy that saw weekly follower-gain jump from 300 to 1,500, while engagement grew fivefold.o Responsible for maintaining voice and editorial quality across all marketing campaigns, site content, customer emails, social media, hotel and destination guides and all other print and digital material.

Amsterdam

Journalist, copywriter and editor for business, newsstand and corporate clients, including...o Editor (four years) of Holland Herald, the award-winning KLM in-flight magazine, managing budgets and a multinational team of permanent and freelance staff.o Copywriter for Balfour Beatty, Kawasaki, LinkedIn, Pampers, Sony PSP, PwC, Shell, Tommy Hilfiger, Yamaha Motors Europe and others, through agencies including Bladonmore, DesignBridge, MediaCatalyst, MediaPartners, Seven Plus/Guardian Creative, StrawberryFrog, and TwoFish.o Contributing editor of Time Out Amsterdam (two years).o Author of The Hedonist’s Guide to Amsterdam, from Hg2.o Comment for the UK’s Company magazine, and The Netherlands’ EBR sportsradio show.

Dubai

Editor of quarterly magazines Time Out Muscat and Time Out Doha, and a portfolio of guides for the weekly Time Out Dubai and monthly Time Out Abu Dhabi.o New launches included guidebooks Short Breaks in the UAE, Musandam & Muscat; Dubai Shortlist and Education. Second editions included Eating Out; Shopping; Health & Leisure and Setting Up.o Managed a deputy, sub editor, designer and writer to publish a book or magazine every two weeks.o Freelance work included political comment for Arabian Insight magazine.

Dubai

Editor of Explorer’s first guides to Barcelona, Beijing and Sydney. These are full-colour, image-heavy 450-page books with an editorial budget of US$25,000 each, and cover drinking and dining, sights, work and where to live.o Led research trips and commissioned writers and photography in each city.o Managed and edited large contract publishing projects for Abu Dhabi Tourism and du.o Devised and led workshops on better writing and editing.o Freelance for Grazia Middle East and Dubai Eye’s Saturday sport radio show.

London

o Reporter and web editor for Human Resources magazine (two years).o Business writer for: PRWeek, IT Training, Business Life, contractoruk.com,Learning & Development, Media Week, Management Today and SupplyManagement.o Travel writer for: The Independent, Buying Abroad, Quintessentially, BusinessTraveller and Money Market.