Two decades in PR and growth
Before creating Seaflowers Studio, I spent 18 years working in leading global PR and communications agencies, helping organisations find their story, build their profile and grow.
I worked with everyone from ambitious founder-led businesses to some of the world’s biggest brands, across corporate, consumer and purpose-led organisations. I’ve advised senior leaders, built communications strategies, led major brand programmes, won campaign awards and developed new business and growth strategies across sectors and markets.
I’ve done this work at scale, including global brand transformations across 95+ offices and 40+ markets, integrated communications campaigns, leadership positioning, thought leadership, media relations and proactive growth strategies.
I learned how to get to the heart of a complicated business, understand what really matters to the people it needs to reach, and turn that into a story people can understand, remember and act on.
With Christiana Figueres, then Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, at the 2017 BusinessGreen Leaders Awards, where I accepted Employee Engagement Campaign of the Year for a behavioural change campaign I ran.
Businesses I’ve worked with
I’ve been trusted by organisations including E.ON, Duracell, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Method, Envision, Huawei, Equinor, Cubico Sustainable Investments, RenewableUK, Smart Energy GB, Linde Gases and Enphase Energy.
My agency career included senior roles at Burson, Hill & Knowlton and APCO Worldwide. I also served as a Board Trustee for South West London Environment Network.
The part of my experience that matters most to the work I do now is not the size of the organisations I’ve worked with; it’s knowing how to find the thing that makes a business matter to the people it wants to reach, and how to turn that into something people can see, understand and remember.
With Dame Ellen MacArthur, ahead of the global media launch I ran for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, delivered in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme.
“Suzy is one of the most driven and committed leaders I know. For well over a decade, I saw her bring energy, care and total ownership to everything she took on. She thinks strategically, understands how brands grow and reputations are built, and has the discipline to turn ambition into action and measurable impact. She doesn’t just develop strategy - she drives it through to rigorous execution. Suzy is highly organised, detail-focused and accountable. When she commits to something, you know it will be delivered thoroughly, on time and to an exacting standard. Senior leaders trusted Suzy because she combines commercial instinct with integrity and a deep commitment to delivery. Any founder or leadership team working with her through Seaflowers Studio will gain a strategic partner fully invested in their success.”
— Sam Lythgoe, Global Head of Growth, Burson
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If you know you’re great at what you do, but struggle to articulate what makes your business different and why people should choose you, let’s talk.