CEO & FOUNDER

Key skills

- Strategic leadership and facilitation
- Economic and workforce resilience
- Stakeholder engagement and collaboration
- Business strategy and project design
- Public speaking, writing and workshop leadership
- Social innovation, education and skills development
- Podcast hosting and communications

Experience

always possible (Founder & CEO, 2015–present): Established and grew the company into a leading strategic economic and social innovation agency across Sussex, Essex, Kent, Surrey, London and the West Midlands. Leads research projects, skills and tech festivals, and advises public and private sector clients on sustainable growth. Oversaw award-winning projects including GLIDE, an enterprise bootcamp with Buckinghamshire New University. Achievements include Company of the Year (Gatwick Diamond Awards, 2022) and Best Professional Services (Sussex Business Awards, 2022).

Essex 2020 (Programme Director): Directed the UK’s largest celebration of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics), bringing together businesses, educators and communities across Essex.

Basildon Creative Tech Fest (Curator, 2024–2025): Curated skills and technology festivals showcasing innovation and creativity for young people and local industry.

Dv8 Sussex (Operations Director): Led transformation programmes and supported youth education and skills development.

London Borough of Brent (Youth Arts Strategy): Developed inter-disciplinary programmes around creative economics, social mobility, participation and skills.

CCC Media (Projects Manager): Design and marketing of engagement projects in leadership and management; enterprise and media skills for the creative industries

Royal Holloway, University of London (Press & PR Officer)

Other roles: Adviser to Sussex Council of Training Providers (2015–2021); Trustee of Fair Train (2014–2020); Executive Member of the Brighton Creative Industries Commission (until 2020). Host of The Possibility Club, The Brighton Paradox and Sussex And The City podcasts

Qualifications

- BA (Hons) English & Drama (First Class) – University of London
- MA English (Distinction) – University of Oxford
- Help to Grow: Management Programme – University of Brighton (2023)

Honours and contributions

- Advisory Board, University of Brighton School of Business & Law
- Member, Brighton & Hove Economic Growth Board
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute
- University of Oxford Book Prize for Academic Excellence
- University of London Harrison Prize for Outstanding Combined Degree

Chair of Brighton Big Debates, West Sussex Tourism Symposium and RSA education events on life readiness

Contributor to BDaily, Business Insider, Sussex Business Times, Platinum Business, Your Business Magazine and trade publications on culture, economics and education

Interviewed widely in national and regional media on social mobility, business resilience, local economics and technology

25+ years across creative business start-ups, education, local government, press & PR, youth work and leadership coaching