Join us at BloomFest 2025: Beyond the Bubble 🌸 

BLOOM PRESIDENT & CLIENT SERVICES DIRECTOR AT TOUCAN

THE MENOPAUSE CAREER COACH

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Fiona McKay is the world's top peak performance, leadership, and business coach for elite women leaders moving through all stages of menopause.

Women board members, high-profile C-suite women leaders, women of wealth, and female founders work exclusively with Fiona to optimise their leadership impact and maximise their career and boardroom wellbeing, so they can lead without limits, maintain their boardroom and business brilliance, and keep growing their careers and companies through all stages of menopause.

Fiona is in demand globally for her unique insights, research, and world-leading expertise on menopause in business and the boardroom, and is the creator of multi-award-winning professional development methods which ensure there is NOPAUSE to elite women’s leadership lives through menopause.

She was voted The Most Influential Women's Health and Career Support Businesswoman and named by LinkedIn as one of the top 25 global changemakers and growth innovators for 2025.

She is also the CEO of Lightbulb, a renowned value creation consultancy working with mid-market funds and portfolio leadership teams to execute on key growth milestones and deliver exceptional exit returns.

FORMER PRESIDENT OF BLOOM AND MARKETING DIRECTOR AT JAA MEDIA

Marketing professional with 20 years experience covering sports marketing, athlete management, consultancy and now agency marketing & company growth at JAA.  

I’m passionate about celebrating great work, championing great people and ensuring equity for all in the workplace. As a mum of two I care deeply about making sure we don’t lose fabulous female talent from the industry.  I’m also on a journey learning about neurodiversity and celebrating difference as my son is autistic.  

I was 2024-25 President of Bloom UK, an incredible community of women in the marcomms world who want to pay it forward to the next generation and drive industry change when it comes to equity and inclusion.  

I’m a founding Trustee of Duchenne UK. I am an avid fundraiser and have taken part in many endurance events including two London marathons and cycling virtually from London to Paris in lockdown.  

FERTILITY & CAREER COACH

Jen Elworthy is a Career and Fertility Coach, and Director of Engagement for Fertility Matters at Work. As a Certified Professional Coach and Emotions Coaching Practitioner, she combines her own lived experience of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancies and IVF with professional expertise to help people navigate fertility challenges whilst building successful careers.

Drawing on her C-Suite level leadership background and training through The Marketing Academy, The Living Leader course and News UK's management programme, Jen brings a unique strategic perspective to supporting individuals and partnering with organisations.

Highly Commended for both Best Fertility Coach and Best Fertility Advocate in the European Fertility Society Awards 2025, Jen also fronts the Stylist and Tommy's Every Loss Counts campaign. She's committed to ensuring that fertility challenges don't derail careers - and that workplaces become places where people can be truly supported through life's most challenging moments.

Natalia is an award-winning Career & Performance Strategist, Speaker, Fractional Marketer and one of Management Today’s 35 Women Under 35. After 6+ years leading top agency teams for iconic brands from Instagram to Unilever, she now helps female leaders and teams unlock sustainable success and fulfilment. Blending Embodied Coaching with UCL Psychology expertise, she brings a fresh, mind-body approach to female leadership, performance and professional ambition.

RECRUITMENT & TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST

Adele is an award-winning Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Specialist with local and global experience partnering at Board, C-Suite level and below, to attract, retain and create growth opportunities for people. In her former role as Founder of Responsible Resourcing Agency (RRA), Adele designed and executed Recruitment, HR Consultancy and L&D programmes for clients within the advertising and media industries. With nearly fifteen years’ experience within the industry, Adele has previously held senior Talent Acquisition positions at LBG Media Group, The Marketing Store and WPP Media. As a Founding Member of WPP Media's first group-level inclusion committee, Adele's experience spans creating ERG's, rolling out DE&I best practise backed by people-policies, and working with diversity partners on multiple business revenue streams.

CULTURE & ENGAGEMENT CONSULTANT

Jackie has extensive international and local brand marketing experience across leading brands in the FMCG, Film, TV and Media sectors, with a track record of building brands, developing and executing integrated marketing and advertising strategies. In recent years she has pivoted from insights into consumers to insights into employees, focusing on internal communications and engagement, helping create a positive and inclusive employee experience for potential employees as well as those within the organisation. 

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER AT RESPONSIBLE MARKETING ADVISORY

Michelle Yeadon is a highly accomplished strategist with over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and communications. Her career has been defined by a passion for leveraging connection and collaboration to create meaningful change. With first-hand experience across the entire campaign process, she brings a holistic perspective to her work. In her current role at Responsible Marketing Advisory, she is a driving force behind the Ad Accessibility Network, an industry initiative dedicated to making advertising accessible to everyone.

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, PHOTOGRAPHER, CAMERA OPERATOR & CHAIR OF BLOOM NETWORK

London-based photographer and film maker Bronaċ (Bro) has over 20 years in the business. With a varied and award-winning career, she’s a bit of a polymath - holding qualifications in Pharmacy, Photography and Marketing!

Her experience ranges from Pharmaceutics to Head of Production at Magnum Photos, Marketing and Research for TV and Newspapers and finally moving in the direction she really loved as a Producer/Director at Gutsy TV. Where she was instrumental bringing home several awards, the pinnacle of which was the much sought after Cannes Lion.

Since then she’s followed her dreams and launched her own production house Bronac McNeill Photography & Film where she has played many roles: Producer, Director, Photographer, Director of Photography and cameras ops.

In both moving and still image creation - her empathy and people skills are vital to putting people at ease and connecting them to her and the camera. As a photographer she has shot everyone from Prime Ministers to Pop stars. Royalty to Jo public. With Pink, Jane Goodall, Kylie and Taylor Swift being her favourites.

As a film maker she has made award winning short indi films and works with many top brands on B2B content: Nissan, E.ON, QVC, Boehringer Ingelheim, Mail-online, The Advertising Association (UK), The Marketing Society (UK) and more.

As well as running her own Production company Bro is also a founding member and now chair of Bloom, a professional network for women in communications and advertising. Through Bloom and her charitable works Bro supports and promotes equality in the Ad & Comms industry and further afield. She continues to be passionate about supporting women’s health and security through Women’s Aid and mentoring young women to help them develop their careers.

Alys is an experienced outcome driven digital leader with over 15 years experience delivering transformational business projects in the Media/Tech space. She is known as a fearless and compassionate leader willing and able to take on the difficult challenges that propel businesses forward in an ever evolving media landscape.

With a focus on developing platforms and processes that provide better outcomes for both people and the bottom line, her role most recently has involved building out a team of transformation experts to work with multiple Agencies across the holding company, deploying operating model shifting technology platforms and people centred change initiatives.

Beginning her journey in Media at Google by supporting SME’s through Search marketing best practice, Alys has since worked through multiple other media channels, with previous roles involving building GroupM’s market leading programmatic Out-Of-Home practice from scratch, project managing the UK roll out of GroupM’s ADTV product, Finecast, and running business operations for the WPP programmatic ad business, Xaxis. Through these roles Alys has developed a well rounded view of the media landscape which she uses to identify new opportunities for growth and improvement.

Alongside the day job, Alys is a keen DEI advocate. Through co-founding and chairing WPP Unite (WPP’s LGBTQIA+ employee resource group) she led a committee of members from across 15 different media agencies, advocating for LGBTQIA+ employees, supporting policy changes and representing Unite at events and on panels. Under her leadership, WPP Unite won 'Best Employee Network' at the British Diversity Awards.

In addition, Alys is deeply embedded in the industry, working with organisations like the Brixton Finishing School to encourage and bring on the next generation of talent, being acknowledged by organisations like WACL with a Talent Award, as well as contributing to panels at AdWeek and ATS to share her knowledge and spark industry debate.

I’m Anna, an embodiment coach, yoga teacher, and former brand strategist with 28 years in the creative industries.

For much of my life I relied on my rational mind, doing what I thought was right rather than what felt right. Yet I always sensed a wiser, instinctive voice within me, one I had long been disconnected from.

My path back began with yoga, but the deepest transformation happened when I trained in somatic coaching. I discovered that our bodies hold the stories of who we’ve learned to be - shaped by culture, family, and expectations - and that these patterns quietly influence how we think, feel, act, and relate.

Through the body, we can reconnect with our inner wisdom, intuition, and feminine magic. Today I help women reclaim that magic, shedding masks and conditioning, finding confidence and courage, and stepping into the power of who they truly are.

Britt Sarony is a freelance ideas expert, creative catalyst, and Neurodiversity & Age consultant with 25+ years in advertising. She combines lateral thinking, creativity, insight, and strategy to reframe problems, challenge assumptions, and unlock business and personal potential.  

Curious and incisive, Britt has revitalized brands, led award-winning campaigns and shaped customer experiences by uncovering overlooked truths and opportunities. She reversed Garnier Ultralift’s decline with a campaign focussed on credibility,adopted internationally; developed the first ad in Braille for UBS & founded her own business to craft & manage VisitEngland's advertising and,co-created a winning VisitBritain Wallace & Gromit campaign. 

Her lived experience as a freelancer, single mum, carer, and late-diagnosed ADHD woman informs her consultancy and advocacy. A co-winner of Creative Equals’ first Disabled Creatives pitch for Guinness, she went on to develop & deliver inclusive insights, ideas and training to enhance Six Nations rugby experience, especially for fans with ‘invisible’/less apparent conditions. A perspective she brings to her Events work. 

She has spoken on and chaired events around self-advocacy and burnout and, as co-lead of Bloom ND, the first Neurodiversity session at Bloomfest,2024,on ‘ND & Untapped potential’. Winner of Bloom’s Bloomin’ Fun Award and shortlisted for Bloom Ambassador of the Year, Britt helps businesses and people, especially women, to explore beyond their comfort zones in order to realise their value and help others to see it too.  

Claire Billings is a wellbeing-centred female leadership coach. She works with senior women in advertising and marketing to land them their dream roles -- in their own unique female leadership style. 

Multi passionate, Gerry is an award-winning purpose driven leader. She has built a portfolio career across a range of advertising disciplines and social impact initiatives. Working at senior leadership level, she uses her energy to make work a better place for all, especially women. An advocate for workplace happiness and joy as a strategy for performance, she is a qualified coach working to create a movement of people that choose happiness alongside their hustle.

Hilary is an associate director at media and advertising specialist PR agency Propeller Group. She has over 15 years of PR experience and alongside her role leading clients she heads up everything that touches on Propeller's people and processes.During her time at Propeller she has worked with leading UK and international media brands, ad agencies and tech companies. Hilary likes to get to the heart of a client’s business to understand their business challenges and how they play into wider industry trends. Aside from client work Hilary enjoys bringing a team together, empowering junior members of the team to grow and confidently deliver high quality opportunities for clients. She prides herself on her knowledge of the media and marketing landscape and enjoys sharing and passing on her hard-won industry know-how.

Susi Castle founded Anders & True, a London-based strategic marketing consultancy, after a career spanning five countries and roles in education, property, and media. After gaining extensive experience in the media industry and outdoor advertising, Susi began freelancing in 2020, before establishing her limited company in 2024.

A French with Japanese graduate from the University of Sheffield she holds three Mini MBAs from Mark Ritson's programmes and she was recognised with the 2021 WACL Talent Award and Patricia Mann Award. Diagnosed with autism and ADHD later in life, Susi embraces neurodivergent thinking as a professional strength and mentors emerging female professionals.

Alongside her marketing consultancy, Susi runs regular workshops in AI and is in the middle of rolling out brand new practical training on pushing through discomfort for greater professional achievement – beginning with what she calls “beating the networking ick.”

Zoe Merchant is the Founder and Managing Director of Bright, a strategic B2B marketing consultancy. With over 30 years of experience, she works with CMOs and senior marketers to transform strategy, streamline operations and drive measurable performance through agile, data-driven marketing. Zoe leads Bright with a focus on three core pillars: Connected Strategy, Leaner Operations and Marketing that Performs - enabling organisations to embed agile ways of working, unlock the power of martech, data and AI, and deliver marketing that drives commercial outcomes. She’s been recognised as a top 10 female leader, a 3x #40OverForty marketing honouree, and a Cannes Lions Creative B2B juror. Zoe is also a certified Agility in Marketing professional.