A strategic advisor and growth partner for Founders of agencies and client-based businesses.
Hello!
I’m a marketer, entrepreneur, and trusted advisor with over two decades of experience in building businesses and growing brands. I’ve founded, grown, and sold businesses of my own — including Seed, a youth marketing agency I exited to Amplify in 2020; The Good Works, a recruitment company for purpose-driven agencies and brands; and, many moons ago, Beach Break Live music festival. Along the way, I’ve also advised a range of agencies, consultancies, and client-based businesses.
Through all of this, I’ve learned first-hand what it takes to grow and sustain a successful, client-based business. I understand the pressure of wearing every hat — delivering for clients, winning new business, managing a team, keeping the numbers positive — all while trying to enjoy the ride.
My approach is practical, commercial, and collaborative. I help founders cut through the noise and build sustainable, profitable businesses. Whether it’s strengthening your sales pipeline, refining your proposition, improving margins, or simply acting as a strategic sounding board when you need one — I’m here to help you navigate the challenges and opportunities of your business and grow with confidence.
Beyond the commercial side, I’m also passionate about using business and marketing as a force for good. I work with many charities and impact ventures to help amplify their efforts and their impact on the world.
I limit my advisory clients to three at any one time and only work with founders where I know I can make a real difference. If you’d like to explore whether we’d be a good fit, I’d love to hear about your business. You can book a chat with me here or use the form below to get in touch.
What might we do together?
Every business I work with is unique, but here are a few of the things we might accomplish together:
Establishing or optimising priority client acquisition channels including search, outreach and profile raising.
Elevating your proposition, brand and assets to the next level.
Reviewing and optimising your pitch and proposal templates for greater conversion.
Reviewing your financials for opportunities to maximise revenue and profits.
Enhancing team design and dynamics.
Strengthening commercial operations.
Addressing your most pressing and evolving priorities as they arise.
Clients and testimonials
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Helping everyone communicate with confidence.
An advisor to Carrie, the Founder as she scales up the business and her offering, focused on commercial strategy, proposition development and her sales and marketing strategy.
“Celia has quickly become an integral part of our business. Within a few weeks of working with her we were seeing the impact on our revenue. She has what many other business consultants are lacking – real experience of running multi-million pound businesses, paired with the ability to listen and tap into the knowledge of the business owner. The results are amazing! I can’t recommend her highly enough.”
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An end to end circular solution for office furniture
Growth advisory for the Reyooz Founder and team. Auditing the current business for growth challenges / opportunities and co-developing a prioritised list of sales and marketing initiatives to grow the business.
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Climate Solution Consultancy & Training Company
Working with the Founders of Project Drawdown to develop a new venture, co-developing the strategic vision, proposition, brand and investment narrative. Also providing a commercial lens across all financial operations.
“Thank you for all that you have done for RegenIntel over the last year. The quality of your contributions and your dedication have impressed upon all of us at RegenIntel, and we would like to express our sincere gratitude for what you have done, and heartfelt appreciation for the person you are. You have shown up authentically and with integrity, expressing empathy and compassion for the mission and the team. These are the traits of planetary-grade thinkers and doers, and you show them in abundance”.
Chad Frischmann, CEO & Co-Founder
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The world’s first open-source carbon emissions network
Commercial advisor to the founding team, helping to develop their proposition and commercial strategy and building their potential network of clients, advisors and investors.
“Celia is probably the most likeable and genuine person you’ll ever meet.
Because of this, she’s supremely well connected and has opened up many conversations with some amazing people in our field. She’s great to have present in the first meets with big partners or clients because people want to be on board if she’s around.
Over the last year Celia has helped us conceptualise our business offering in the climate tech space through a very human lens. She is naturally very inquisitive and through developing her own understanding of our mission has been able to reinforce exactly what that offering is the human, to planet Earth, and dig out of us anything we’d overlooked.
We’re well on our way with our mission because of our time working with her”.
Tom Carpenter, Founder
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Disruptive Communications Agency
A mentor to Rebecca, the Founder, through key moments in R Agency’s evolution, including an exit to Steven Bartlett’s Flight Story and Rebecca’s maternity planning.
Currently on maternity – testimonial coming soon!
Rebecca Abigail, Founder & CEO
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Consultancy Democratising Leadership
Created ‘turbo growth strategy’ for T Minus, redefining their brand and proposition to reflect a braver offering and building a sustainable sales, marketing strategy and function into the business.
“Celia was a real game changer for T Minus. Having her creative and commercial experience dedicated to our growth meant we were able to prioritise and accelerate our efforts, resulting in a major rebrand, optimised sales and marketing strategy and the team empowered and set up to deliver it!”
Carlo King-Risi, Co-Founder
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Accelerating Green Tech Business
Heading up a working group to identify and build out key initiatives that activate the GTA network to help their EU climate startups scale more quickly and effectively.
“Celia combines a strong passion for creating a better world with realism and deep knowledge gained from founding multiple successful businesses. Working with her is inspiring, satisfying and joyful”.
Emma Patmore, Co-Founder
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Triple Bottom Line Copywriting Agency
A mentor to Rin, the Founder, as she built the agency from sole operator to a team of six and a sustainable business
“Celia is the perfect combination of straight talking and empathetic. She’ll tell you exactly what you need to hear but she’ll do it in a way that leaves you feeling encouraged. With a wealth of business experience behind her, she can provide more than just theoretical knowledge, and her enthusiasm is limitless. My business has come on leaps and bounds in the time I have worked with her”.
Rin Hamburgh, Founder & CEO
rin-hamburgh.co.uk