2001 – Present
Freelance New Business Development Manager – clients include: The Matchett Group, WWP Training, Hawksmere Ltd; Marshall ACM, PdA Ltd; Impact Factory, Business Smart International, Growth Engineering, OLM Group, Refunds Direct, 3CCC’s Ltd; Erica Harley Associates.

Recent Projects include:
- Breaking into Blue Chip organisations and organising introductory meetings at senior executive level in order to demo live business simulations including Computacenter, BBC, Siemans, Scottish Power (Business Smart International)
- Working with Executive Performance Director in order to launch the new division. Over 30 meetings booked with blue chip organisations to discuss executive development and coaching in eight weeks. Companies include: BBC, Brewin Dolphin, Arcadia, Woolworths, BA, National Archives, Paramount, Solihull BC and Aga Foods (The Matchett Group)
- Working within software division, database validation booking meetings with existing customers in order to upgrade to new LMS (OLM Group)
- Project work re-selling existing programmes to vertical markets, specifically smoking ban and creativity projects (Impact Factory)
- Booking and delivering online demos of software product averaging three new demos per day (Growth Engineering)
- Established corporate channel for tax rebates within Automotive Sector 16 accounts opened in eight day period (Refunds Direct)
- On going work with Hawksmere Ltd selling membership contracts
- New Business Development; opening up opportunities within corporate accounts for consultancy service. Over £90,000 of new business acquired from eight new accounts in just six months working two days a week from cold calling (WWP Training Ltd)
- Organised meeting with English Heritage which resulted in a two year training contract worth 1.5 million pounds (WWP Training Ltd)
- Advice on targeted telesales campaign, techniques, tips and example selling for non sales staff in SME (Eric Harley Associates)
- Market testing / research for new product. (3CCC’s Ltd.)

GTS Learning is an international market-leading provider of training material for vocational and certifications-based IT and business skills.

Responsibilities:

- Selling GTS Learning courseware to commercial education providers and corporate training departments. Increased client base from 18 to 56
- Increasing revenue from education providers by motivating their internal sales staff to sell more GTS Learning courses
- Implemented the creation of a new revenue stream by selling the courseware through an academic channel of partners. Built up new list of clients from 0 to 30
- Instigated and managed a relationship between GTS and Microsoft’s academic channel manager
- Presenting the benefits of joining the GTS Academic channel in conjunction with Microsoft at joint conferences hosted by Microsoft
- Speaking at conferences, seminars and trade shows to increase visibility of GTS Learning within the IT training industry

Barefoot Computer Training was an IT Training Company bought by the American organisation ARIS Education in 1998. Responsibilities:

- Selling a range of technical IT training courses to corporate clients through a mixture of telesales, meetings and formal presentations. In 1998 I won a training contract from BAA. This was the largest single sale ever achieved for ARIS Education worldwide. The contract worth £600,000 and completed in just three months was for Lotus applications training and Lotus themselves were widely anticipated to be awarded the business
- Consistently met and exceeded internal sales targets, brought in new business from a wide range of blue chip clients including Unilever, Kodak, News International and UBS

During this period I worked on short-term contracts for a number of companies while I also pursued a career as an actress and travelled. All of the positions I held were basic telesales roles, including a year with VNU publications selling advertising.