Denise Hicks

I work with a wide range of businesses from start-ups and scale-ups to large established global brands; across sectors, from FMCG to Healthcare. I specialise in: - Innovation for Sustainability, Circularity and Social Impact - Brand and comms incl. proposition development and communications strategy - Foresight strategy development and research 25 years ago I started as an advertising planner, through trends analyst to now being a director level strategist working for brands including Philips, Google, Unilever, Red Bull, Cadbury, Nike, The Carbon Trust, Bupa, UAL and Ravensbourne University. I'm an entrepreneurial self-starter: I founded and ran a Bafta-recognised film festival in Central London for ten years; raised £1m in 8 weeks to save an art deco cinema and another £4m to renovate it; built a Climate Thinktank from scratch; co-wrote the Carbon Literacy manual for the market research industry; built an AI Futures Mapping tool; and thrive on continuous progress, development and learning.