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London, England, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Freelancer, providing strategic advice and communications services to the property and built environment sectors.

The Carrot Collective is the world’s first fully distributed creative collective for a new breed of talent. We have developed a new model for solving complex creative challenges, connecting specialised experts across 26 countries into agile, custom teams tailored to each client’s needs. As a Partner, I lead the end-to-end engagements by assembling and guiding bespoke teams. This enables me to match world-class capabilities to projects for enhanced innovation, speed, and cost efficiency. The Carrot Collective’s unique value proposition, ensures we always have the right people on the right projects, at the right time.

London, England, United Kingdom

Working with real estate clients across all asset classes to help them to meet their business ambitions. Leading Redwood’s new business and marketing.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Strategic adviser to Managing Director for Property – UK & Europe • Advise the Property Board on market trends and develop campaigns to position the business ahead of tenders and bids• Lead marcomms activity across a number of sectors including pharma, public sector, education, healthcare, private sector and industrial & manufacturing, as well as a number of key frameworks for the business including SCAPE and SCF-PSF Consult• Sustainability lead for Consult: Lead Mace Consult’s internal and external comms, raising the profile of our work in the market, generating new leads and developing Mace’s new retrofit offer• Develop and deliver integrated campaigns across segments, generating new leads for the business and identifying new client targets• Increase demand generation through the development of new content across all platforms to strategically position the business to win new work• Leading the development and implementation of the Marcomms skills strategy to ensure we have skills and approach needed to support the delivery of the 2026 Mace Business Strategy • Actively involved with team development and coaching team members towards outstanding performance• Mace Wellbeing Ambassador and Ally to a number of Mace networks including Pride at Mace, Ethnic, Diversity & Inclusion Network, Parents at Mace and Women at Mace

London, United Kingdom

Led marketing and communications for Mace's consultancy business, including property and infrastructure sectors. Worked with the business to develop and deliver integrated marketing campaigns to promote our service offer in our chosen markets.

London, United Kingdom

Working across a range of areas including corporate communications, corporate responsibility, reputation management and crisis communications.

I worked across a range of public affairs and comms accounts including Mace, Gatwick Airport, CITB, John Lewis Partnership, Care Quality Commission, BT and Energy UK, providing strategic and stakeholder communications advice and public affairs support to clients and was responsible for developing and delivering media strategies for clients to support their business objectives.I organised private dinners, roundtables and meeting programmes for clients across Westminster and Whitehall, party conferences and with the media.I regularly delivered national, trade and regional coverage such as for Energy UK for their carbon monoxide awareness campaign, securing BBC Breakfast, Daybreak, Channel 5 News and national radio opportunities.

Included a secondment to Mace delivering national and trade press coverage across Mace’s projects, including the Shard; designed and implemented crisis comms strategy for Mace projects.Managed and provided day-to-day counsel to clients across a range of accounts including Mace, CLM, CH2M HILL and King’s Cross Central and led LCA’s social media work, both for the agency and for clients.Seconded to the press office at High Speed 1, working on the high-profile launch of St Pancras International and led LCA’s work in the run-up to the London mayoral and Assembly elections in May 2008 and 2010 local and General Election, including managing a research team and drafting material for LCA’s predictions and post-election analysis.

PA To the Lord Tope, Lib Dem Assembly Member

Intern and assistant to Nick Clegg MEP, providing research and background briefings, attending conferences and meetings with lobbyists and providing feedback and political advice. Administrative support to the principal assistant, organising travel arrangements and meetings.

Ma (Hons), International Peace & Security

Mini Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, 70%

Modules covered strategic change, people management, accounting and finance, and strategic marketing

Ba (Hons), European Studies & French

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