GALVANIZE [GAL-VUH-NAHYZ] : TO STARTLE INTO SUDDEN ACTIVITY; TO STIMULATE, SHOCK OR EXCITE (SOMEONE) INTO TAKING ACTION
Advisory Board Member for Fashion & Mash
Consultant to fashtech startups on segmentation and brand strategy, judge for Innovate UK IC Tomorrow Competitions
Coached 200+ thesis students to become subject specialists in their field of research
Collaborated and mentored early career researchers and industry practitioners looking to get published in academic journals and present at academic conferences
15 years of pitching ideas and creating presentations both domestically and internationally which aim to engage, evoke and excite
Event and panel curation for Social Media Week in London and NYC and Global Entrepreneurship Week
Led Inside the Industry events at London College of Fashion and Industry Dialogue events at the British School of Fashion
Directed and re-engineered 6 academic programmes, managing a diverse staff and student population in line with corporate objectives
Participant in the worlds first fashtech hackathon in a shopping centre, creating a fashion app in 24 hours with Holition
Adopter of a post-modernist research method philosophy and non-traditional approaches to research design
Experimenter and integrator of technology to support strategic decision making and analysis, e.g. Visual Retailing, Edited and Econsultancy
Researched and created the first Master of Science Digital Fashion Strategy Programme in the world in 2015
Initiated and activated the first Global Fashion Management Conference on Co-Creation and Collaboration with 120 participants from 18 countries in 2014
Designed, launched and led the first Bachelor of Arts International Fashion Branding Programme in Europe in 2009