helena sturridge

non executive director

About

Senior executive with a career in B2B publishing and with Royal Medical Colleges now seeking to build a non-executive portfolio. Skills include strategic planning, development of strong senior teams, stakeholder management, coaching and mentoring, media experience, good written and spoken communications. Senior roles have been in mid-size organisations facing major business challenges. Projects have included relaunches, development of conference streams, strategic IT developments, entry into regulated markets, development of media profiles. Experience of a range of industries and markets including HR, IT, NHS management, local government, health. medical politics and high stakes assessments.

Country

united kingdom

City

glasgow

Industry

education management

Skill

business strategy, advisory boards, medical post graduate examinations, strategic planning, coaching and mentoring, change management, leadership, online publishing, media relations, digital media, public relations, planning budgeting and forecasting, crm projects, marketing strategy, strategic communications, publishing, newsletters, statistical data analysis, social media, corporate communications, publications, content strategy, editing, internal communications, editorial, content development, content management, educational assessments, email marketing, journalism, magazines, team leadership, senior stakeholder management, medical politics, computer based assessments, regulated assessments, gmc, royal medical colleges, financial mangement, budget management, management, medical terminology, digital publishing, medical education

Experience

editor

idg news service

1978-1 - 1979-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

computing

haymarket media group

1974-1 - 1978-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

board level non-exec and independent advisor

strategy development and implementation coaching and mentoring

2015-9 - Present · 11 yrs 1 mo

Sharing skills and expertise gained through working in senior executive roles in previous posts with CEOs of growing organisations facing current business challenges. Working with senior leaders on strategy development and supporting them with lashings of mentoring and coaching and a dash of inspiration.

editor-in-chief

doctor & hospital doctor

1994-2 - 1998-6 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Editor in Chief of the medical weekly newspapers Doctor and Hosptial Doctor.

managing director

emap

2002-1 - 2005-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Leading the company's public sector publishing operation that included the biggest brands, Health Service Journal, Local Government Chronicle, a range of conferences and online services, and the BETT Education exhibition. Leading the organisation at a challenging time as the online recruitment sites first challenged the supremacy of magazine based recruitment advertising in the public sector. Working with top editorial teams leading the news coverage and setting the agenda in their markets.

executive director

cmp information

2002-1 - 2003-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Responsible for a portfolio of publications including Farmers Guardian, Travel Trade Gazette, Packaging Magazine, a portfolio of specialist directories and the Confex exhibition.

editor and publisher

computer weekly

1998-1 - 2002-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

First editor and then publisher of the UK's leading weekly IT publication. Computer Weekly was PPA Publication of the Year 2000. Winner of PPA Campaign of the Year 2001.

editor

reed business information

1988-1 - 1992-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Launch editor of Personnel Today in 1988, and winner of the Media Week launch of the Year 1989. Then editor of Practical Computing responsible for a redesign and relaunch of the publication. Before going on to become Editor in Chief of RBI's medical group of publications and later its market leading IT publication Computer Weekly.

chief operating officer of mrcp

royal college of physicians

2007-2 - 2015-9 · 8 yrs 8 mos

Responsible for the UK's leading high stakes medical examination through a highly charged period for UK medical trainees. Working with a complex mix of stakeholders including the members and fellows of the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh, Glasgow and London and the exam candidates who aspire to be senior doctors in 30 countries around the world.. MRCP is the leading medical assessment, a mandatory qualification for most hospital doctors. Role included building strong governance processes to assure the quality of the examinations, Working with clinicians and statisticians to assure the content and standards of the exams are robust, and working with international partners to support the highest medical standards across the world, Responsible for re-engineering business processes to update the exam and meet the standards set by the regulator.

non executive director

ucas media

2017-3 - Present · 9 yrs 7 mos

A organisation with unique expertise in understanding young people, able to work with brands, education providers, students and employers to make the right connections.