London, England, United Kingdom
Throughout her 8+ year career, Catherine has found her passion and calling in impact led communities and initiatives. From running her own organisation GLOW, to managing the communities of impact focused organisations (Circl, Colorintech and Bae HQ), to consulting growing community organisations, she has made a significant impact on the communities she’s nurtured. Catherine’s expertise in community, events, and communications has led to awards, including managing one of the most engaged groups on LinkedIn! Key career highlights include: ✅ At Colorintech, I ran 60+ in-person, hybrid, and virtual events and programmes in 30 months. Through better communication and process, I increased turnout from 29.79% to 66.96% by July 2025. ✅ At Bae HQ, I planned and onboarded 96 state school students from 7 youth organisations for the 2026 Youth Startups Programme. ✅ I grew the Colorintech community from 32k to 65k in three years. ✅ I've delivered projects and managed relationships with corporate partners, including: Netflix, Apple, HSBC Innovation Banking, NatWest, Meta, JustEat, Dojo and more. ✅ I've created automated communications funnels covering the complete customer journey for over 10 different businesses. One client saw 9.37% of lost clients convert to paying customers. ✅ I am an seasoned public speaker who has experience in: hosting and moderating panels / conversations, talks and workshops. She's now open to work on something new! ☺️ She's looking for mid-level to senior full time roles and or freelance consulting projects in: ⭐ Community, ⭐ Events, ⭐ Programmes, ⭐ Partnerships, ⭐ Communications, ⭐ Operations. Do I sound like someone you want to connect with? If so then drop a connection request and let me know what you're most interested in connecting about!
Alongside my full time roles, I've been consulting for various organisations on: ✅ Community Growth Strategy: Supporting community founders in building their community growth strategy and how to implement plans with a small budgets; ✅ Setting up CMS systems and customer journey automations (primarily using ActiveCampaign and Zapier); ✅ Event strategy and management: includes helping set up processes that work, ensuring ROI for the event is being met, and reviewing the outcomes for future improvement; ✅ Developing customer journeys and sales pipelines. Please reach out if you're interested in my services!
Here is a list of my top engagements: 🎤 Hosted and Moderated the majority of Colorintech events during my tenure. I also hosted events for community partners, like Neurovoices. 🎤 Speaker at a Websummit 2025 side event alongside The Next Web on diversity and inclusion within the European founder ecosystem; 🎤 Speaker for the Community Led World Conference 2024 on the topic of Building an Engaged Community Based on In-Person Experiences. 🎤 Panelist at The Next Web Conference 2024 discussing, alongside Founderland, Shifting the Paradigm: The ROI of Supporting Founders of Color and Why it's Everyone's Business. 🎤 Diverse Leaders in Tech Summit 2024 for their Ask the Expert sessions (was also on their shadow advisory board for the event). 🎤 Hosted and moderated 3 main stage and 1 side stage panel at BTF 2023 which saw over 5,000 attendees: - Ways to Kickstart your Career in Tech: https://youtu.be/eyiOYttseio?feature=shared - Our Career Journey: https://youtu.be/fxB_ombDkUA?feature=shared - Navigating my Early Career: https://youtu.be/2Pm-p2r75Zo?feature=shared - Is the internet a friend or foe for the black community?: https://youtu.be/PWRlQ1f3Qc4?feature=shared 🎤 Hosted and moderated panels at BTF 2024 (1) and BTF 2025 (1), however these recordings are not publicly available. 🎤 Facilitated and ran multiple workshops on automations marketing, communication strategies, events strategies and a Zapier focused sessions. 🎤 Guest on the Coworking Values Podcast speaking on the importance of representation and inclusivity within communities with a focus on the Coworking industry: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HPFwxAmIj5GYpUYLV3EQr?si=USRGlbhkTk2_Cr-eU2bn5w 🎤 Ran a limited season podcast, You Belong On The Board: https://open.spotify.com/show/3900n02daJbXvC2tGVPrD1?si=_lC54qbTTDKrs-6UVXtAEQ
This non-profit organisation is the UK community for Asian-heritage founders and investors. I was responsible for the creation of community processes and delivery of events, programmes and initiatives. Below are a few highlights from the work I was involved in during the last five months as part of the Bae HQ team: ✅ Event Management: Planned 14 in-person free events. ✅ Communication Strategy: Set up our new CMS system and created automated communications journeys that react to member actions. ✅ Impact Metrics: Created and implemented an Event Quality Score and Programme Quality Score to understand our successes and areas for improvement. ✅ Volunteer Management & Operations: Created and launched our first volunteer programme involving an application process, a tiered reward system, and volunteer sub-community! ✅ Regional Expansion: Successfully launched two events in a new region (Birmingham): a founders and investors dinner, and community panel. Both events were a full house! ✅ Programme Delivery: Planned and onboarded 96 under-18 state school students for the 2026 Youth Startups Programme. ✅ Client Management: Generate ideas, manage relationships, and deliver projects with multiple partners.
This international Non-Profit supports underrepresented students, working professionals, and founders to excel in tech. After joining as the Community and Events Lead, I was promoted to Head of due to my contributions and leadership. Key responsibilities included: ✅ Community Strategy and Growth: Due to tech’s changing nature, the community strategy was reactive to the community’s needs determined through an annual survey, feedback, and analysing member’s behaviours. ✅ Event Delivery: Ran 75+ in-person, hybrid and virtual events and programmes. Through better communications and value, I increased turnout from 29.79% upon joining to 66.96% by July 2025. ✅ Development of New Offerings: I created a new pathway focused on a variety of successful programmes and events that achieve this. ✅ Communication Engagement through a highly active mailing list, LinkedIn Community group and Whatsapp Community. ✅ Impact Metrics: Created and implemented an Event Quality Score to understand event’s successes and areas for improvement, ie 99% would recommend someone to our events. This was alongside core impact metrics. ✅ Client Management: Generate ideas, manage relationships, and deliver projects with Apple, Netflix, Meta, HelloFresh, Just Eat, HSBC Innovation Bank, Dojo and more. Many began new projects after a positive experience. ✅ Team Management & Operations: Managed team member to grow in community and events, support and mentored our startups and students leads, manage our facilitators for our AI programmes, support in team days and training, and co-manage team sync meetings. ✅ Speaking, Networking & Sales Support: Frequently attend, speak and co-organise other events within the tech industry to increase awareness, generate leads or support our partners or members initiatives. This includes international work in Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris. ✅ Community Partnerships: Developed 86+ Informal Community Partnerships.