Here I am presenting at Product Tank
Here are my top 10 career achievements:
- My book, The Really Good Idea Test, published by Pearson October 2020
- I was part of an award winning consultant team for a FTSE100 for an innovation culture changing programme in 2018
- I have created & delivered CPD accredited innovation courses since 2012 for UCL & science PhDs nationwide
- I directed the UK’s largest empty shops project at Brixton Village which is now one of London’s top hot spots
- I was called a “New Radical” by the Guardian and Observer and was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Inside Out in 2009
- Techcrunch & The Guardian raved about my live conference teen panels
- I was named as one of Harpers Bazaar “Top Entrepreneurs under 40” in 2007 for generating $1m p.a for an early Web 2.0 funded startup and increasing users from 1m to 21m
- My campaigns were acclaimed by mobile industry press as “the most innovative” and they took T-Mobile UK to market leadership position in 2004
- I was responsible at T-Mobile UK for a few firsts: launching the first Blackberry, being the first to activate Shazam in the UK & designing the first bundled price plans
- I delivered £millions cost savings for a mobile operator through process re-engineering & product killing! 1993 – 2005
I have been interviewed and named in these publications:
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I have had many different job roles across many different business environments which gives me a broad understanding of how things work!
- Innovation Course Director
- Director of Product & Insights
- Portfolio & Product Owner / Manager & Marketeer
- Customer Experience Owner
- Community Manager
- Process Improvement Officer
- Change Manager
- Project Director
- Qualitative Researcher
- Product Mentor & Coach
- Event Planner, Host & Entertainer!
You can read more about my experience & achievements here on Linkedin.
Here is some of the media coverage I have attracted over the years
Part of the Innovation Award Winning Team at Pearson
Interviewed on Radio 4, You & Yours
Interviewed by BBC Inside Out as Director of Empty Shops Project, Brixton Village
New radicals making Britain a better place Name checked in The Guardian & The Observer in conjunction with Nesta
London Restaurant Festival Award courtesy of Fay Maschler, for Space Makers work at Brixton Village, which has now become a foodie’s paradise
Mobile Youth TV interview on Digital Youth Project
The Independent quoted by Rhodri Marsden about Digital Music & Young People
Links are no longer available, but here is a list of other coverage:
- Named as one of the Top Entrepreneurs under 40 for WeeWorld, Harpers Bazaar
- BBC London Inside Out interview about the Brixton Village Space Makers Project, (video available on demand)
- The Really Mobile Project coverage of the Teen Panel at Mobile Heroes Conference
- Brand Republic quoted by Lisa Devaney about the “pop up” culture, re: Brixton Village Space Makers Project
- New Media Age quoted by Meg Carter about Child Created Content
- Mobile Marketing article by David Murphy covering Teen Panel at Mobile Heroes Conference
- BusinessZone article by Dan Martin covering Teen Panel at Music 4.5 Conference
- “Chief Cheerleader and Battering Ram” – Blog Post by Asher Rickayzen of Relume talking about my role in the Brixton Village Project as an example of “Challenger Spirit”
- Brand-e.biz article by Steve Mullins on Resourceful Youth
- TechEye coverage of the Teen Panel at Music 4.5 Conference
- Symbian where I wrote a guest blog about New Approaches to Product Research
- MSearch Groove interview by Peggy-Anne Salz on why I started the Digital Youth Project
- Most innovative mobile campaigns for Picture Messaging for T-Mobile, Mobile News