ASSOCIATE

Key skills

- Audience insight and qualitative research
- Social innovation and product development
- Workshop design and facilitation
- Business development and business casing
- Project management and innovation coaching
- Presenting, pitching, and proposal writing
- Relationship management

Experience

always possible: Led research and innovation evaluation with Bridge Support, a mental health charity piloting community-led support models.

Prostate Cancer UK: Innovation Lead – delivered audits, facilitated design-thinking workshops, and coached teams on innovation practice.

British Heart Foundation: Innovation & Product Development Manager – created the membership MVP MyBHF, managed a high-value legacies project, and ran Test & Learn programmes using user interviews and digital testing.

Samaritans: Developed the Feel Good Book Club subscription, launched new fundraising products including Samarathon (raising over £1m), and created popular retail lines.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity: Developed a VR Christmas product (earning Innovator of the Year), and managed corporate partnerships.

Qualifications

- BA in English Language and Literature – University of Essex
- IDEO Insights for Innovation course

Honours

Innovator of the Year, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (2017)