2001 – Present
Freelance New Business Development Manager and Small Business Manager – diverse range of clients from film to finance, IT software, LMS and learning and development.

Clients include:
NMG Product Placement, ON Communication, The Matchett Group, OLM Group, Impact Factory, Immense Productions/KBS Films, Refunds Direct, Hawksmere Ltd; Marshall ACM, Business Smart International, Growth Engineering, Spring Partnerships Ltd; 3CCC’s Ltd; Erica Harley Associates, PdA Ltd; GTS Learning, WWP Training.

Recent Projects include:
- Managing NMG Product Placement on a day to day basis for owner, account management, client retention and new business has been my priority recent wins in 2012 include Amazon, HTC, Highland Spring. I also manage the small team.
- Raising corporate sponsorship in return for product placement to help finance production of full length feature film, Tortoise In Love Greene King, among others, achieved as primary sponsor, managed all PR including T.V. and radio (Immense Productions)
- Increasing awareness of capabilities of marketing consultancy's specialised highly scientific background for making of corporate films and animations within niche markets utilising mixture of sales, social networking and PR. (ON Communication)
- Breaking into Blue Chip organisations and organising introductory meetings at senior executive level in order to demo live business simulations including Computacenter, New Look, Norwich Union, Qinteq, Siemans, Scottish Power (Business Smart International)
- Market testing/research for new product (GTS Learning)
- Project work re-selling existing programmes to vertical markets, specifically smoking ban and creativity projects (Impact Factory)
- Working with Executive Performance Director in order to launch new EP division. Over 30 meetings booked with blue chip organisations to discuss executive development and coaching in eight weeks. Companies include: BBC, Brewin Dolphin, Arcadia, 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)
- 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. (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.)
- Booking senior decision makers onto one day seminar designed to attract new clients (Spring Partnerships)

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.