Art, media & communications | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Annabella Coldrick

    Annabella joined the UK’s Music Managers Forum in January 2016. MMF is the world’s largest professional community of music managers with over 750 members based in the UK with global businesses and a wider network of managers in the USA. We campaign for a fairer, more transparent music industry which operates in the interest of […]

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  • Portrait of Rita Clifton CBE

    Rita Clifton CBE

    Rita has been called ‘Brand guru’ by the Financial Times and ‘The doyenne of branding’ by Campaign magazine. The Daily Telegraph described her as ‘The brand leading the brands’. Rita graduated from Cambridge and started her career in advertising, where she became Vice Chairman and strategy director at Saatchi & Saatchi in its most successful […]

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  • Portrait of Alan Clements

    Alan Clements

    Alan Clements has had a successful career as a dynamic, creative leader in award winning television production and business management. He set up Two Rivers Media in Late 2018 backed by international production and distribution business Kew Media, merchant bankers Noble Grossart and the C4 Growth Fund. He has successfully recruited a senior leadership team […]

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  • Portrait of Vanessa Clifford

    Vanessa Clifford

    Vanessa was the Chief Executive of Newsworks, the marketing body for the UK’s national news brands in all their forms, working with advertisers and agencies to help them harness the influence and context of the national press to deliver effective campaigns in a multi-platform world She has worked in the media and marketing industry for […]

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  • Portrait of Lucy Clayton

    Lucy Clayton

    Lucy Clayton is passionate about discovering and mentoring talent. She is author of How To Go To Work (Penguin) the essential guide for anyone starting out in their career. As former CEO of Community Clothing, a social enterprise with a mission to sustain and create jobs in the UK textile industry, she was honoured in […]

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  • Erika Clegg

    Erika is co-founder of award-winning creative communications business, Spring, the Agency for Change. Spring works with change-makers in organisations including EDF Energy, Anglian Water, London & Partners, British Psychological Society, Moroccan National Tourism Office, West Midlands Combined Authority, Paradigm Academies Trust and NHS. Spring is lead by a clear Ethos that Erika drives into the […]

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  • Portrait of Heather Clark Charrington

    Heather Clark Charrington

    Heather is a marketing and communications specialist with over 20 years’ experience in the arts and entertainment industry in the US and UK. She is currently Director of Marketing & Communications at English National Ballet. Previous posts have included Director of Marketing & Sales for Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Brand Manager for Wildlife Photographer of the […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Ian Christie

    Professor Ian Christie

    I am a film and media historian, interested in communicating about aspects of these that people – especially young people – may not know about. I’ve specialised in reviving interest in ‘forgotten’ figures like Michael Powell and, currently, Robert Paul – the original creator of our film industry in the 1890s. I’ve also written and […]

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  • Portrait of Jean-Patrick Cheylan

    Jean-Patrick Cheylan

    Jean-Patrick is Head of Partnerships & Community at TikTok for France and Belgium. He is leading a team of 6 managers who are in charge of supporting creators, public figures and media partners across entertainment and sport. Previously, he was in charge of supporting the leading European entertainment content creators to grow and monetize their […]

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  • Portrait of Doctor Prathiba Chitsabesan

    Dr Prathiba Chitsabesan

    Dr Prathiba Chitsabesan is the Associate National Clinical Director for Children and Young People’s Mental Health for NHS England Prathiba is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry working in a large mental health and community trust (Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust). Lead consultant since 2005, she became Clinical Director in 2015 and continues to […]

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