Confidently There

I equip teams and individuals to more ethically and effectively handle difficult conversations. 

Think:

- understanding power dynamics and knowing how to approach them restoratively
- having the tools to approach the difficult subjects productively, kindly AND feeling ok to do so
- feeling equipped to handle the challenging or toxic relationships so they no longer bug you long after the conversation has finished.


And more simply: 
- calmly navigating conflict
- not fearing confrontation
- saying no without the guilt
- putting ideas across without apology
- speaking up with confidence and ease

My work is kind, evidence-based, psychology-backed and really practical. 

It exclusively promotes and utilises ethical communication strategies promoting equal voice, accountability and integrity at every turn. 

For organisations, my work can help you cultivate an environment that allows all voices to be heard, connection to be prioritised and a culture of challenge and kindness in equal measure upheld. I upskill my clients as communicators to no longer shy away from the tough stuff, but to learn to approach it all without blame or shame, judgement or assumption. This culture shift will not only boost morale and your bottom line, but it is a key equality, diversity and inclusion issue too as it brings all voices to the fore and does away for good with outdated and problematic dominance dynamics.

For individuals, my work equips you to reclaim your sense-of-self in any problematic or toxic working relationships, gives you the tools to know how to respond to any challenging conversation with a restorative approach, and allows YOU to redefine your work-life balance, no longer feeling that it needs to be a binary choice between being respected and being well-liked.

Founder

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Lecturer in Voice 

Audition panelist

Lecturer in Voice

Working predominantly with the Postgraduate students on the MA Musical Theatre and MA Acting for Stage, Screen and Radio, and student actors on the 3 year BA Acting course, in a combination of group classes in vocal technique, text work, combined with accent and dialect work for show support.

Voice Teacher

Freelance / Self-employed

Freelance Voice Coach

Freelance Singing Teacher

Royal Shakespeare Company

Voice, Singing and Dialect coach for this new British musical, written by Sam Kenyon and directed by Erica Whyman, played in the Swan Theatre summer 2018. https://www.rsc.org.uk/miss-littlewood/tickets

Voice, Singing & Dialect coach, Miss Littlewood

BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL LIMITED

The Oxford School of Drama

I head up the singing work at OSD, working on a balance of precise technique, and bold, creative, truthful Acting through Song with the second years, the postgraduates, and students on the six month intensive Foundation Course.

Head of Singing

National Youth Theatre Wales

The American Musical Theatre Academy - London and New York

Singing Teacher

City Academy Ltd

Urdang Academy

I specialise in supporting values-led organisations and heart-centred leaders to have difficult conversations more often, more ethically, and more effectively. 

It takes difficult conversations and uncomfortable changes when we want to bring about genuine shifts to our culture. Something many people are not professionally equipped for. 

My area of expertise is giving you the tools to handle any challenging situation through open, honest, and rigorous conversations where all parties feel supported and heard. Because when you get that right, everything else follows. 

This helps to fill the gaps between people-first policies and the reality of your day-to-day culture. 

Through quality, active, curious listening and no longer shying away from difficult conversations, you can start aligning behaviours and standards with your big-picture goals. 

All from a PROPERLY human-first approach.

Louisa Clarke

Love Pioneer Media Ltd

High level strategist & Performance Coach and working with consciously ambitious leaders and founders who want to make an impact in their careers and businesses and leave a lasting legacy without abandoning their unique values, their authenticity and their health & wellbeing.

Chief Executive Officer

FDisruptors

FDisruptors is an innovative recruitment and learning marketplace building the workforce of the future. We work with Start ups, SME's and FTSE 100 companies helping them to create true diversity within their teams and drive purposeful highly trained young people into their Graduate & Apprentice positions. Companies work with us in 3 main ways:

1. Strengthening their Employer Brand on and offline and attracting emerging talent

2. Presenting their Graduate & Apprentice opportunities using multi media and content that resonates with diverse emerging talent

3. FD Academy - innovative training delivered to Graduate & Apprentices to enhance the onboarding experience and equip employees with the skills needed to thrive at the start of their career

www.fdisruptors.com
@fdisruptors

Edwards & Co

Growth Consultant & Marketing Specialist

Client Case Studies:

Bullen Healthcare - Growth Consultant and Consultant Director of Marketing

Responsible for:

- Management and ongoing development of strategic marketing function and marketing activity

- Identifying new market opportunities leading to strategic relationships for growth

- Business planning and acting as adviser for MD, Board and senior management teams

- Development of 3-5 year company vision and Business Plan

- Development of key relationships with strategic charity partnerships and securing long term JV opportunities

Spinal Injuries Association - Strategic Growth Consultant

Responsible for:

- Diagnostic of current vision/capabilities/branding and strategic objectives leading to new 3 year plan identifying key opportunities for growth and supporting the development of the senior management team and Board of Trustees

- Development and delivery of strategic development sessions with all senior management teams 

Key highlights:

Enabling the development of an innovative healthcare service that is truly bespoke to individual charities which has had a huge impact on members lives

Continually innovating across all business functions and service provision to ensure we were delivering the highest level of customer service and support

Increasing employee engagement through the development of clear vision/mission and goals

Securing long term JV opportunities which in turn deliver sustainable growth for both parties

Designing and delivering the roll out of 3 strategic partnerships within an 18 month period and acting as key partner within both parties

Growth Consultant & Marketing Specialist

Hillyer McKeown Solicitors

Responsible for:

- Business Development, strategic direction and innovation

- Development and delivery of strategic marketing plan across all legal departments

- Strategic development of digital growth, including all assets, and activities 

- Development and roll out of new service offerings (HR Service) which included business planning, service infrastructure development, new brand development, full marketing and sales strategy, building of all marketing assets and collatoral, advertising, comms and PR strategy

- Creation and sole management of new Business Consultancy division providing strategic added value to customer base

- Design and development of bespoke CRM system to increase upselling capabilities, improve client management, streamline client communications, increase data capture and knowledge management and create transparency across departments

- Development of multi departmental strategies which included identifying annual commercial opportunities, analysing market trends, new product or service development, infrastructure efficiencies and digital opportunities

- Development of key strategic partnerships with public sector, government bodies and initiatives relating to local economic regeneration

- Creation and implementation of PR and communications strategy

- Brand restructure and positioning

Head Of Marketing

Owner/Director

Owner of online business selling children and baby products sourced globally. 

All products were either ethically sourced or made from sustainable and organic materials.

Pergradi Ltd

Parker Sandford

Director of Marketing

Responsibilities included:

- Working with the MD, Marketing and Sales teams to define the future growth of the agencies brand and business.

-Devising and delivering effective integrated campaigns to build awareness and drive sales for multiple projects across all areas of the business.

-Managing the organisation’s brand strategy, building brand awareness and affinity with B2B and B2C client base

-Building and managing a well-rounded design, development and marketing teams, providing mentorship and leadership to a team of young and ambitious employees

-Setting, managing and evaluating multiple marketing budgets.

-Conducting market research and generating useful consumer insight.

-Reporting on marketing effectiveness and optimising campaign activity to ensure delivery on agreed ROI

-Managing the organisations online and offline marketing strategy including budget and overseeing all campaigns

-Managing the organisations external PR agency and communications strategy

- High level account management delivering strategic support and delivery to clients

Director of Marketing

Business Link

Relationship Manager

Responsibilities Included:

- Providing business support and advice to SME marketplace

- Undertaking full business diagnostic reviews for SME's and subsequently developing growth strategies based on opportunities

- Management of strategic projects on behalf of SME ensuring efficient delivery by chosen supplier

Relationship Manager

Training Consultant for the University of Liverpool

Responsibilities included:

- Design and development of Graduate training programmes to enable them to secure work

- Design and development of personal development programmes for women to build confidence, personal employability skills and networks

- Development of key partnerships within commerce providing opportunities for graduates

- Team member developing a creative new careers/employability resource called 'The Windmills programme'

Royal Navy & Royal Marines

Communications Executive and Civilian Officer

Responsibilities included:

- Management of £4m press and advertising budget relating to overall recruitment strategy and targets

- Management of key agencies including Young & Rubicam and Saatchi & Saatchi working on national marketing campaigns for press, TV and advertising creative

- Management and delivery of TV advertising campaign shot on location in USA and the Caribbean responsible for 40 strong crew, agency staff and liaison with senior naval personnel 

- Research and development into customer insights feeding back into recruitment strategy

- Providing communications advice to senior ranking officers and public officials/MP's relating to defence matters

- Development, management and delivery of strategic national education campaign in partnership with Speedo

Communications Executive - Civilian Officer

North East Museums Service

Marketing and Training Officer

Responsibilities include:

- Development and delivery of marketing support and training programme for 95 museums and galleries across the Northwest region

- Development of strategic partnership with the Ruler of Sharjah (UAE) delivering full business diagnostic across 12 museums and galleries and subsequent development of business plan across all sites

- Creation of commercial business strategy for Ruler of Sharjah which identified commercial opporunities for growth, strategic marketing requirements and employee engagement programme

- Delivery of bespoke week long Employee Engagement training programme in UAE to all senior management and employees across 12 sites. Training included: Management development and skills, customer service, sales and marketing skills

- Design and delivery of three day training conference for over 80 staff in Hungary on behalf of the British Commision

- Training consisted of: Marketing and sales skills, customer service, management of employees and development of senior management skills and communication

Marketing and Training Officer

About Me

You might think I am a self love coach but I'm not. I'm a high level strategist and high performance coach. And every single part of my work and my life is influenced by my practice of deep self love as a strategy. 

Which might make you curious about HOW did I end up here? Well self love might be written off as woo woo or fluff but for me it was the pivot that brought me back to life.

When you watch my masterclass you will find out more about how much impact my practice of deep selflove has had on my work and my life and no - I have not been dancing towards it on a yellow brick road chasing rainbows.

It was hard. But the right kind of hard.

I moved from being a founder of a tech startup raising investment and being in the board rooms of some of the top FTSE 100 to giving it all up, becoming a coach and building out a successful practice all from deep self love and now I have helped companies earn millions and transform their entire lives using my strategies and practices.

Because there has NEVER been a more potent association between the love we cultivate for ourselves and how we can fully express that within the work we are doing in the world - until now. We can’t keep building huge careers and businesses and leaving love off the table. We HAVE to be more ambitious than that. 

Who I work with

There are leaders in the world who are thinking radically about how they want to grow, run and feel within their business. They want to unlearn everything that society has prescribed for them around success and how running a  business looks and in it's place they want to build loving, compassionate, kind, inclusive communities where WE not ME is the foundation from which they work. I am their coach.

They are not afraid of being the first. 

They are not afraid of tossing every rule up in the air. 

They exist to break the rules. 

The expected norms. 

The collective wisdom that no longer serves any of us. 

And they have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

But they also want to achieve this by being consciously ambitious - meaning that they get to rise to the top with their lives, minds and hearts intact.

I am the coach who gets to work alongside these innovators and visionaries and help them to bring that vision to life. 

I create spaces for beautiful and creative minds not titles. I create rooms where diversity is celebrated and old binary norms are thrown away to reveal new thoughts, new debates, new ways to work and co exist. 

This is Modern Leadership and my next client could be YOU.

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