Form the Future empower young people to explore their ambitions and find their route through education into employment, as well as connect employers to their future talent.Working within an ambitious senior leadership team, and responsible for leading an exceptionally talented and successful Partnerships & Operations group of people, covering Business Development, Key Account Management, Corporate Partnerships, Marketing, Events, Ambassadors, People & Culture, Finance, IT, Facilities, Health & Safety, Governance, and Executive Office functions.

3 month short-term fixed contract to review a portfolio of membership publications. Review scope included audience research, financial position, editorial and publishing processes, DEI analysis, gathering internal and external stakeholder views.

Manager of NHS Test & Trace Covid testing centres, contracted through G4S. Delivery of an operational capacity for 250k Covid PCR medical tests per annum to the general public, leading and developing teams, with all associated facilities, health and safety, security, procurement, training, and KPI management responsibilities. Retained by G4S in the demobilisation of the testing centres, primarily focusing on logistics, auditing and compliance.

Headed the learning and development function at this Sunday Times Tech Track 100 company.Worked with multi-disciplinary, international teams to deliver a wide range of learning programmes for leadership, management, commercial, marketing, product, software engineering and recruitment functions, as well as an open learning agenda for all employees across the global organisation.Utilised rapid development and continuous improvement approaches closely aligned to the organisation culture values and business priorities.

Thompson Digital Training specialises in growing digital revenues for media companies and other organisations through consultancy, talent identification, leadership and talent development, customer development and B2B programmes, as well as speaking at conferences and events. Clients include the IAB UK, IAB Ireland, The Law Society, Telegraph Media Group, Guardian Media Group, News UK, Reach, Haymarket, Hearst, Time Inc, Boat International Media, Autotrader, Incisive Media, Conde Nast, Centaur, UBM, CityAM, i2C/Nectar, Cedar Communications (British Airways), Trinity Mirror, Local World, GTI Media (TargetJobs), Madgex, The Beans Group (Student Beans, Voxburner), Independent News & Media Ireland, Daily Mail Group Ireland, Mindshare, The Irish Times, Ryanair, Image Publications Ireland, IAB Romania, AtWork Denmark, NWZ Media Group Germany.With additional interests in data science, online marketplaces, behavioural economics, biological basis of behaviour, leadership and elite performance management, Thompson Digital Training creates and delivers inspirational programmes with tangible results.

Senior management team position, responsible for commercial development of the fish4jobs site with the key shareholders in the fish4 business (Newsquest Media Group, Northcliffe Newspapers, Guardian Media Group, Trinity Mirror). Delivery of training and communication programmes. Management of the implementation of multiple technology platforms to an extensive national reseller network. Roll-out of analytics and other business intelligence tools within the business.

An evangelist role within the fish4 business to the shareholder newspaper groups (Newsquest Media Group, Northcliffe Newspapers, Guardian Media Group, Trinity Mirror) delivering technical development, commercial training and communication programmes. Also managed the fish4it! business directory and the business relationships between fish4, data providers and shareholder newspaper groups.

Senior management position leading a team of editorial, commercial and development staff to manage a number of local media and community websites. Delivery of various initiatives to re-engineer editorial, production and advertising process to integrate newspaper production with online publishing. Acknowledged with various company-wide initiatives and industry awards.