I  am a UKCP psychotherapist in training with experience supporting people in crisis by volunteering with bereavement and homeless charities. Previously, I have worked in diverse roles in the public and private sectors as a Project Manager (at Regional Authorities, business support agencies, and commercial companies, amongst others) and in Human Resources roles. 

I hold an MA in International Business and a 1st class MSc in Psychology, and am fluent in English and French. I am grateful to have received an award at the International Conference of Autoethnography  2023 for my research on Missing People.

• Mental health at work/ Research

  • • 9 years leading mental health and at-work initiatives in high-stress environments (vicarious trauma training, mental health, stress at work).

    • MSc Psychology (1st degree),  Dissertation Award winner - International Conference of Autoethnography, Bristol, 2023 

    • UKCP trainee in hypnotherapy and integrative psychotherapy

• HR

• 10 years implementing and leading HR UK and Ireland function:

• Managing strategic & operational aspects of human resources & organisational development

 services, policies & initiatives

• Designing, implementing & monitoring the People Strategy

• Managing, assessing and developing employee engagement activities across the organisation.

• PMO / Statutory and regulatory reporting: business continuity and risk management, change management programmes, HR GDPR, compliance.

  • MA in International Business and languages

  • MSc Psychology (1st degree) 

• Project management/stakeholder management / Grant management

• 20 years experience managing international projects and grant programmes in the public, private and non-profit sectors.

• Grant project management experience: Interreg IIIA, IIIB and IIIC, FP7, UKTI 

• MA in International Business and languages

• Prince 2 Practitioner

• Language skills:

  • • Fluent in French and English

    • Advanced skills in Spanish and German

Examples of some projects/ programmes managed

Trilateral Research Ltd

       Corporate processes/operational: Implementation of IT systems, intranet, financial, HR systems, entity transfer from LLP to LTD, TUPE transfers, Business Continuity & Risk Management, change management programmes, HR GDPR, compliance.

FP7 funding: TRACE (TRafficking as A Criminal Enterprise)

Nine European partners came together to address Human trafficking under the TRACE (TRafficking as A Criminal Enterprise), which aimed to support stakeholders in combating and disrupting human trafficking, one of the largest criminal enterprises in the world, by assessing and consolidating information surrounding the perpetrators and the broader trafficking enterprise. TRACE acknowledged that human trafficking involves a chain of criminal behaviours, activities and processes and consolidated up-to-date information, good practice, and expert opinion to provide stakeholders with an intervention strategy based on policy recommendations for disrupting the trafficking chain. These recommendations were based on stakeholder consensus through interviews, expert workshops, and the final conference.

I was responsible for project coordination, liaising with project partners, funding bodies, monitoring KPIs, project plans, financial management, reporting, marketing, PR, and event organisation.

FP7 funding: E-Crime (€3.75 million)

Some progress has been made in understanding and managing cybercrime and assessing its economic impact. Yet much remains to be done. Lack of coordination in law enforcement and legislation, lack of common consensus on the nature of cybercrime and lack of knowledge sharing and trust are just some of the issues that both afflict cybercrime responses and cloud our understanding of cybercrime. E-CRIME addressed these problems while analysing the economic impact of cybercrime and developing concrete measures to manage risks and deter cyber criminals in non-ICT sectors. E-CRIME adopted an interdisciplinary and multi-level-stakeholder-focused approach that fully integrated a wide range of stakeholders’ knowledge and insights into the project.  The €3.75 million project gathered 11 European partners (Universities across Europe, InterPol, Ipsos).

I was responsible for project coordination, liaising with project partners, funding body, monitoring KPIs, project plans, financial management, reporting, marketing, PR, and event organisation.

Le Creuset

Project management of the roll-out of Le Creuset E-commerce websites to European and worldwide subsidiaries, assisting them with their Marketing strategies. 

Developed new project management methodology, documentation, and training (E-commerce site functionalities, Google analytics, digital communication, Social media, finance, customer service and logistics), revised processes and integration, acted as lead for the global payment platform, improving security.

South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA)

Corporate processes: Implementation of IT system, website, financial, and HR systems. Project management, event organisation, marketing activities and financial reporting.

INTERREG IVC funding: INNOVAGE project (€ 3.2 million)

14 European regions looking at increasing the effectiveness of regional development policies related to eco-independent living for the elderly. Creating a European network of companies and associated institutions (business-private-research sectors) sharing similar interests regarding innovation policies and independent living of the elderly. I monitored KPIs, project plans, financial management, reporting, marketing, PR, and event organisation.

FP7 funding: JADE (Joining innovative Approaches for the integration and Development of transnational knowledge of clusters policies related to independence of Elderly) project (€3.2 million)

JADE project brought together a total of 42 partners (businesses, universities, research bodies, end-user representatives, institutions) from 4 EU and 1 extra-EU research-driven cluster: i-LIVE RDC (Marche region) from Italy as Coordinator and ADEBAG RDC (Rhone-Alpes region) from France, SEHTA RDC (South East England) from the United Kingdom, Helsinki Region RDC from Finland and Istanbul Region RDC from Turkey.

The JADE project aimed to help older people live independently for longer by applying ambient assistive technologies to prevent and manage chronic diseases in the elderly by influencing the development of policy initiatives. 

I monitored KPIs, project plans, financial management, reporting, marketing, PR, and event organisation, 3 Million Lives events organisation; SEHTA helped host strategic workshops in Kent, Sussex and Surrey to help drive the NHS ‘3 Million Lives’ initiative forward, aiming to give 3 million people access to assistive technologies to improve their health and well-being. Over 300 clinicians, local authorities, care organisations and companies participated in those events and received information on the JADE project.

INTERREG IV C funding: CASA project (€ 2.6 million)

Regional policy development and information sharing centred on large-scale implementation of new ICT and services for independent living. Demographic trends necessitate wiser planning of senior citizens and chronically sick care and housing, including the use of ICT. This provided an opportunity for enterprising businesses to create new tools and services. CASA was a Community of Regions for Assisted Living (CORAL) member, a consortium of a few dozen European regional governments. They used CORAL to create a long-term link between their innovation clusters in Ambient Assisted Living and Active & Healthy. I monitored KPIs, project plans, financial management, reporting, marketing, PR, and event organisation.

South East England Development Agency (SEEDA)

INTERREG IIIC/IVC funding: GROW and POWER online monitoring system  

Product development & implementation of an online monitoring system to facilitate the reporting of financial expenditures & outputs of the partnership. Responsible for all software development life cycle stages, working with multi-disciplinary teams from conception, planning, implementation, testing, documenting, international deployment & training in 7 European countries and maintenance.
This system was considered exemplary by users in the programme evaluation and was selected as best practice by the European Funding Authority.

INTERREG IVC funding: POWER, South East England Development Agency  (€5.8 million)

In the context of ambitious EU climate protection targets, the POWER Regional Initiative investigated regional pathways to a low-carbon economy by reformulating regional development strategies and policy instruments and identifying effective forms of sub-regional action contributing to regional competitiveness. POWER was a €5.8 million interregional development initiative run by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), sponsored by the Environment Agency, and co-funded by INTERREG IVC. South East England was in charge of this high-profile scheme, which includes six other European Union regions: Stockholm (Sweden), Noord-Brabant (Netherlands), Malopolska (Poland), Emilia-Romagna (Italy), Tallinn (Estonia), and Andalucía (Spain).

Administration of the green initiatives on Low Carbon Economies offered across the participating areas with policy impact as part of the POWER Secretariat and as the UK regional correspondent. I was responsible for managing communications through digital channels across Europe, website management, campaign management, developing a presence on social media sites (SMO) and on YouTube, tracking website traffic (SEO), Marketing effectiveness & delivering quarterly e-newsletters.

The programme was recognised as successful in modelling the use of new Media in the programme evaluation, successful promotion & organisation of significant events.

INTERREG IVC funding:  PEOPLE, Government of Andalucía  (€4 million)

Led by the Junta de Andalucía that includes six other regions: South East England, Venezia (Italy), Noord-Brabant (NL), Malopolska (Poland), Stockholm (Sweden), and Timis (Roumania). PEOPLE wanted to investigate new job prospects and increase well-being and cohesiveness regarding demographic and societal changes. 

I was coordinating the implementation and delivery in South East England.   

INTERREG IIIC funding: GROW, South East England Development Agency (€7.5 million)

GROW brings together five European regions: South East England in the United Kingdom, Emilia-Romagna in Italy, Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands, Malopolska in Poland, and Andalucía in Spain. All were experiencing rapid growth and shared a vision of 'smart growth' rather than "growth at any cost." GROW sponsored 16 international initiatives co-funded by Interreg IIIC with a budget of €7.5 million. Eighty groups participated in the combined execution of the EU's Lisbon and Gothenburg Agendas, which aimed to create more and better employment, increase social cohesion, and safeguard the environment.

The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) established the GROW Programme in partnership with the South East England Regional Assembly and the Environment Agency. I established the GROW Secretariat, which oversaw program/project evaluations, creating and disseminating outcomes into regional policies and developing the interregional programme. My focus was mainly on dissemination activities and ensuring -smooth coordination of activities, projects, contracts management and relationship management among the UK and European partnerships with up to 80 organisations at a time (public, private sector, NGOs). I was responsible for developing the programme's pan-European communications and e-marketing strategies (online policy forum, website, communication campaigns), planning activities with international partners, and overseeing implementation & monitoring.

After just one year in operation, GROW was chosen as a best practice model and presented to EU member states in July 2006. It overachieved in many outputs, delivered to cost, timescales & quality standards, and evaluated as “developed in a robust & thoughtful way that engaged international partners & experts”.

During a visit to Southeast England in June 2007, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed an interest in the programme’s outcomes dissemination.  

INTERREG IIIB funding: Biosmile, South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) 

The Biosmile project was co-funded under Interreg IIIB to strengthen and promoted the competitiveness of North West Europe in the field of biotechnology through international cooperation within and between polycentric urban areas, medium-sized cities and the participating regions of South East England (UK), Nord-pas-de-Calais (F), Limburg (NL), Flandres and Wallonia (Belgium), Rheinland (Germany).

I was responsible for the overall communications and Online strategy.  

INTERREG IIIA funding: Transenterprise, South East England Development Agency Transenterprise was a collaborative network of Enterprise Hub and Technopoles from Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardie and Haute-Normandie focusing exclusively on knowledge-based companies in the life sciences, healthcare, ICT, automotive, and environmental technologies. Transenterprise was co-funded under the Interreg IIIA Franco-British programme. 

I was responsible for delivering activities, KPI monitoring, communication activities and audit preparation.