Diane is an experienced project manager. With a strong marketing background, she is skilled at working with multiple stakeholders from board level to volunteers.
Her place experience includes high street projects, consultations and stakeholder engagement with businesses, launching and improving street markets and developing and managing marketing and communications projects for local authorities, architects, property companies and others who care about their place.
With businesses, Diane has 20+ years’ experience in marketing and client development both with FTSE 100 companies, specifically in the regulated, financial services and re/insurance sectors and those providing services to government. She helps companies to understand their market, customers and business enabling them to get to market quicker when launching new products or services, run integrated marketing campaigns and tell compelling stories about their products, services or people to support their business plan.
Diane holds a degree in Business Studies and Diplomas from The Chartered Institute of Marketing and The Market Research Society and is currently studying for an MSc in Place Management and Leadership with the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University.