Brand consultant and programme lead working with businesses, startups and organisations across the cultural and creative sectors. I design and deliver compelling brand experiences and programmes that position businesses, campaigns, services and products for impact.
I bring 30 years’ experience as a strategist and designer, including 15 years as founder, director, and operational lead of a brand agency, and over 20 years delivering complex strategic, transformation, and operational programmes for enterprises and institutions, scaling SMEs, and startups.
I work on a consulting, freelance, and contract basis.
Photo taken in studio of framed Bridget Riley print with woven rug reflections
Programme Lead
I lead complex programmes that position companies, build capability, scale impact and deliver practical outcomes. Leveraging decades of experience in programme strategy, design, resourcing, planning, management, and the strategic oversight of implementation alongside hands-on delivery. My focus is ensuring programmes are well-governed, efficiently run within timeframes and budgets, and responsive to sector needs.
Case studies are available on request.
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Translate organisational ambition into a coherent programme, define objectives, outcomes, success measures and delivery models.
Ensure programmes respond to sector need and remain adaptable as priorities evolve.
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Oversee end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams and establish governance, timelines, resourcing and quality assurance.
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Create clarity of roles, priorities and decision-making, m;anagement and support of staff, fostering collaboration and high performance while enabling knowledge-sharing and professional development across the team.
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Build and manage partnerships that extend reach and impact, as a senior point of contact representing the programme.
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Use data, feedback and insight to evaluate programme effectiveness, report on outcomes, learning and value for money. Iterate and improve programme design to strengthen long-term impact.
Brand and Content
I offer a lean approach to establishing scalable brand and content ecosystems for entities and ventures at every stage, from early idea, planning and launch, growth, and long-term resilience.
As a seasoned small business owner, I understand the need to work flexibly and cost-efficiently, adapting process and pace to the needs and preferences of each programme.
Scroll thumbnails below for an overview of creative work. For more detail and projects, view Portfolio:
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Defining what you do, the value this brings and how this creates distinction and places you apart from your competition. A strategic foundation of your brand that informs messaging and experience that could be a simple, finite product or service offering, or it could be the architecture of a scalable portfolio of products and services.
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How you position your products or services to your markets in a way that allows flexibility as you evolve your offering and grow your business. Identifying the perceptual impression and influence your brand will have on its audience, how it differentiates and the space it owns in the competitive landscape .
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The intangible qualities and characteristics of your business come together to form the creative criteria for your brand’s visual identity. Rather than a rigid or finite system, brand identity is a flexible, organic ecosystem of visual and verbal assets that evolves and scales with the business, consistently expressing its position, proposition, purpose, and personality across all digital, print and experiential touch points.
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I set up basic Squarespace and Shopify websites and online stores to serve as brand positioning platforms. We look at the information architecture, the desired user experience, and we detail all content requirements and decide on the means of content creation. We also define the filing structure for assets and content so that you can manage this with ease after our project is complete. I also collaborate with developers on the design and UX of custom builds.
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We identify the narratives and themes that best tell your brand story and deliver the greatest value to your audience, then develop creative, shareable assets to bring them to life. These may include blogs, explainer or introductory videos, campaigns, social content, and wider marketing streams. We plan the content strategy, define the design and messaging frameworks, and deliver production-ready assets.