I have been supporting some of the world’s biggest organisations in the development of strategies to support their organisational culture for over 25 years, previously at the Institute of Business Ethics.

I am a subject matter expert on speaking up in the workplace and how encouraging open and supportive cultures can benefit organisations and the people who work for them. I have been privileged to have supported the work of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians who help workers in the NHS in England to speak up and be heard.

I am the author of Encouraging a Speak Up Culture and Communicating Ethical Values Internally.

Fostering open and supportive cultures can help make organisations thoughtful and ethical in everything they do; I believe that stories create cultures and we can use them to support ‘doing the right thing’. 

Obtaining a postgraduate qualification in the Psychology of Kindness and Wellbeing at Work from the University of Sussex has inspired me to do more work connecting ethical business practice and wellbeing to truly nurture workplaces so that we can feel our best, give our best and do our best.

A Chartered PR Professional, I am an advocate for responsible and ethical business communications, and have presented and written on the subject for IABC, CIPR and PRCA. My early career was spent in the music and comedy industry, as press officer for, among others, Eddie Izzard, Robert Newman, James, and Len.

I am a cancer survivor, in remission from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma following a stem cell transplant in 2016.
I also host a monthly meditation through poetry session – Unfolding Poetry – in Shoreham-by-sea.

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