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Helen Wilkinson | Founder and Director of Genderquake

Since graduating with a first class degree in Politics and Parliamentary Studies from Leeds University in 1988, Helen’s career – in broadcasting, policy development, and socially responsible ventures – has been defined by issues of public interest. A natural leader, her varied portfolio career has been characterised by risk taking and entrepreneurialism.

She has a history of start ups, beginning at the BBC where she worked on a number of current affairs start up series (Public Eye and Assignment), the think tank Demos, and Genderquake Limited, www.genderquake.com. Her historic experience in traditional media (broadcast and print) has latterly been enhanced by her experience in new media. Her research and advocacy in the non-profit sector is now underpinned by strong commercial experience, most recently with the founding of www.genderquake.com. Her research, forecasting and policy expertise can reach public, and political audiences as well as being tailored to commercial clients. Her fundraising expertise for non-profit research based causes is accompanied by fundraising experience with angel networks, incubators, corporate financiers and venture capitalists, an experience which informed her report, Dot Bombshell – women, e-quality and the new economy (2001) and also the formation of www.genderquake.com. Helen has lived and worked on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been an international adviser to the Women in Silicon Valley project as well as having an academic base at the Institute for Women's Leadership in California as one of their visiting fellows in 2001-2002. Helen also has detailed knowledge of the charitable sector having worked in and around the sector in various guises for over a decade, and had contact with charities and NGOs during her period as a journalist and TV producer before that. She also has experience of start up ventures and is skilled in setting up the systems, and processes that are so essential to long-term sustainable organisational growth. Her recent experience at DrugScope, as Director of Information and Policy, has also given her a 360 degree perspective on the challenges of turning around a medium sized national NGO in a post merger environment. At Kids Clubs Network, she provided transformational leadership to a 25 strong Development team to prepare them for the challenges of their own organisational rebranding to 4Children, and to the new policy and service opportunities opening up in children’s services in the wake of the Green Paper.

Career highlights include:

•		Interim Director of Development, Kids Clubs Network, www.kidsclubs.org.uk, and 4Children, www.4Children.org.uk, between April 2003 to end of April 2004 rebuilding the team and creating the infrastructure and medium to long term framework to realise the development strategy through the refocusing of senior management competencies and bandwidth in the organisation;

•		Founder and Director of www.genderquake.com, strategic consultancy on gender change and www.elancentric.com, business community for elancers – internet enabled home and mobile workers;

•		Director of Information and Policy and part of the Strategic Management Group, DrugScope, the leading independent centre of expertise on drugs policy in the UK, www.drugscope.org.uk, July 2002-March 2003;

•		an ideas entrepreneur - an associate of the Industrial Society's Futures Division, Demos Associate on work-life issues and bespoke research and communication projects (including the Bread for Life campaign run by the Flour Advisory Bureau to encourage healthy eating among young women);

•		a founding member of the think tank Demos, where she raised half a million pounds for the organisation, developed the research and public affairs, services and published several ground breaking reports/pamphlets, many of which have become government policy. She now sits on its Advisory Council;

•		Research and Policy Development – worked in Parliament, Congress and the National Consumer Council and worked with a range of think tanks nationally and internationally – including the New York based Families and Work Institute between 1997-1998;

•		a national columnist – The Independent (1995-1996) and Management Today (2000-2001);

•		strategic consultant – to organisations as varied as Canon Europa, Coopers and Lybrand, BBC, and Northern Foods, on issues as varied as organisational change, work-life balance, recruitment and retention of women and Generation X and a consortium of government and the voluntary sector on promoting partnership on web strategy for promoting partnership working, www.ourpartnership.org.uk;

•		Author – Helen has authored 10 books/pamphlets, edited and published magazines, and collections, as well as contributing innumerable chapters, articles;

•		Journalist – for newspapers and magazines as varied as Personnel Today, New Statesman, as well as newspapers like The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times writing columns, features and opinion pieces;

•		Broadcaster – the co-presenter of The Big Idea's: Friends and Family, BBC 2, 1999 on the future of the family, a consultant to the Channel 4 Genderquake series in 1995;

•		a BBC TV current affairs producer, latterly on Newsnight

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