Hi, I'm Andrea, a strategic communications and corporate affairs leader with 30 years’ experience helping organisations navigate complexity, shape clear narratives, and build the partnerships needed to deliver meaningful impact.
My career spans public service, policing, central and local government, non‑profits, and high‑growth businesses, and today I work through a portfolio of roles that blend programme leadership, strategic counsel, and purpose‑driven communications.
I currently lead the Bucks Data Exchange (BDEx) Programme, strengthening the VCSE sector through data‑driven insight and collaboration across Buckinghamshire. Alongside this, I support organisations seeking clarity of purpose, stronger stakeholder engagement, and communications that connect strategy with delivery.
I’m motivated by work that strengthens communities, delivers social and environmental value, and helps organisations communicate with clarity, confidence, and integrity. My approach is collaborative, calm under pressure, and grounded in insight, always focused on enabling better decisions and better outcomes.
If you’re working on challenges involving strategy, engagement, data‑driven impact, or organisational change, and need some part-time or flexible short-term support, do get in touch.
Multi-sector experience
areas of expertise
Strategic Communications
Strategic Communications
Strategic Communications
Having the right approach to communications and engagement is crucial to successfully informing, engaging, and mobilising audiences, as well as protecting brand reputation and mitigating risk.
Getting a strategy in place to ensure it supports delivery of business goals is vital, and keeps communicators on track, enabling them to deliver proactively as well as manage the reactive demands.
Operating Model Design
Strategic Communications
Strategic Communications
Getting the right structure and infrastructure in place to meet current and future needs is key to meeting the expectations and requirements of stakeholders.
The right capabilities, including the mix of professional disciplines, policies and processes, tools and technologies, as well as ways of working must all be in place to have an effective, high-performing team.
Corporate Affairs
Strategic Communications
Organisational Change
Increasing advocacy, influencing policymakers, and attracting talent, investors, and customers are all vital ingredients to business success and Corporate Affairs plays a key role. Ensuring join-up across the various disciplines is crucial to delivering impact. From writing compelling narrative to leading government relations and hosting events, a coordinated approach is needed to influence all stakeholders.
Organisational Change
Sustainability Leadership
Organisational Change
Getting strategies in place to ensure stakeholders are identified, understood, and included in the change process, be it incremental change, widespread reform, or wholesale transformation, is key. Timely stakeholder inclusion and well-planned communication is crucial to ensuring a smooth transition when delivering change. People are at the heart of change.
Sustainability Leadership
Sustainability Leadership
Sustainability Leadership
Customers, employees, investors, suppliers, regulators and communities are increasingly expecting to see sustainable practices across the organisations they engage with, and work for. Getting the right strategies and initiatives in place to have a positive impact on society, the environment, and the economy is no-longer a nice-to-have - its vital to value creation.
Interim management
Sustainability Leadership
Sustainability Leadership
Whether plugging a temporary gap, delivering an ad-hoc project, or test running a new role profile whilst determining the longer-term requirement, using an interim can provide the perfect solution to a short-term problem.
As an interim manager, I offer:
- A fresh perspective
- A flexible senior resource
- A financially sensible solution