An author, copywriter, editor, project manager. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) specialist.

Working in print, online and across social media, from a blank sheet of paper to a refresh of existing material, I inform, influence and help build brands through the right language, emphasis and tone of voice.

Co-director of The Big Ideas Collective and founder of multi-lingual marketing website Micro Oiseau, I hail from a media background in film production having worked with Terence Davies, Paul Greengrass and David Puttnam.

Clients include: ITV plc, The University of York, The Stable Company, Holiday Cottages Group, Littlewoods Online, FERA, Riccall Care, SHINE, Skillogy, City of York Council, Bleanau Gwent Council, OVO Energy, Positive Accountants, Barbara Jacobs & Co, OVO Energy, Petros, York St John University, Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, Agri-EPI Centre, Horizon Leeds, CIEL and York Conservation Trust.

Author of 'How to Be in Business' (2024) chosen to accompany the She Can Shine female entrepreneurial startup programme based at SHINE in Leeds, UK.

Author of 'How to Get Inside Someone's Mind and Stay There' (2014) winner of 2015 Small Business Book Awards, now currently published by Business Expert Press in New York.


Editor on a range of non-fiction books, including:
'I Am Human Pain and Pleasure'by Martin Johnson
'How to be Good at Work' by Professor Roger Steare.
'Ethicability' by Roger Steare
'I Am Human: 30 Mistakes to Success' by Martin Johnson
'If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich?' by Elizabeth Ward

I have particular interest in the environment. Serving on the Board of Yorkshire Energy Partnership.

In 2017 I became a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

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