Co-founder of boutique consulting firm designed to help companies of all sizes drive growth and raise brand awareness.

As an independent consultant I provide business strategy, operations and marketing support to organizations looking to grow, or transform. Client work ranges from research for global multinational companies to marketing for sole proprietors. My passion is to turn ideas and strategy into tangible and actionable steps that can deliver results.

Partnering with Financial Times Strategies, and Google News Initiative, I led relationships with six North American publishers, holding best practice workshops, and developing strategic framework, initiatives and action plans to grow digital subscriptions.

Provided support for five strategic divestitures, as Mercer re-aligned its business portfolio.

Worked across the full sales process from identification of opportunity, drafting business case, potential buyer outreach (in partnership with corporate development team), due diligence, execution of deal and transition of colleagues, clients and technology to buyer.

Coordinated project workstreams to transition business including - client, colleague and external communications, HR, legal, vendors, technology, etc.

Supported financial analysis of impact of sale, and initiatives to minimize stranded costs.

Supported President of Global Health, Retirement and Investments (member of CEO's Executive Leadership team) execute their strategic priorities for $2BN revenue business line.

Set and managed operational cadence of Leadership team. Coordinated day-to-day activities (e.g. communications, speaking events, townhalls, etc.) and supported key strategic initiatives (e.g. capital investment planning, M&A reviews, sales drives).

Selected to interview CEO and CFO as part of live quarterly Global Colleague Townhall.

Seconded from Mercer to the World Economic Forum to lead a global initiative on Retirement and Investment systems.

Collaborated with a Steering Committee of C-suite level executives, academics and public sector experts to publish two highly successful papers. Held in-person discussion during Davos meeting.

Returned to a previous client to lead development and roll-out of MPRE (Mercer Pension Risk Exchange) an innovative solution for plan sponsors and the pension buy-out market.

Managed buyout team of five, which needed to evolve processes to adapt to the new solution. Required heavy change management lift and radical up-skilling of the team.

Business owner of in-house technology build to support the solution, liaising with business stakeholders, project managers and 3rd party developers throughout the process. Highly involved from writing of business specs, through to launch and live client implementations.

Client-facing consultant on small to first $BN+ transactions. Project manager on largest split-insurer deal in US market.

Supported Head of Digital marketing by managing tools and technology to support internal comms.

Key project was launching a new social intranet platform globally. Developed the business case to use the Salesforce platform to allow connectivity to CRM functionality.

Responsible for launch of platform globally and subsequent country transition working closely with technology team, Accenture and regional marketers. Platform is still in place 10+ years later.

Strategic analysis and problem solving for global financial services clients in UK, Europe, Africa, and Middle East. Over time, focused on strategy and operational initiatives for insurers, asset managers, and PE funds.

Part of the consulting team to develop and launch an innovative pension de-risking solution, MDDS (Mercer Dynamic De-risking Solution), in the UK market. Subsequently moved from London to New York office to lead North America roll-out. Solution has been key growth driver for the Investments business, and is still in place today with over $500BN in AuM.