OUR PEOPLE
As trusted advisors to senior teams, and partners to in house teams, we are specialists in all areas of comms and behaviour change. We do what we care about, and we care about what we do.
Learn more about our experience.
Laura Oliphant
Founder
Laura Oliphant
Founder
A big thinker, as interested in business as the power of comms to change behaviour, Laura has launched two new banks and created some of the biggest education and health campaigns in the UK. She has worked with multiple brands to develop and build their brand - finding a gap, cutting through the noise and helping them punch above their weight. Laura has a particular passion for building investor and donor value, and likes to jump between business and charity, corporate and consumer when it comes to creating stand out strategy and campaigns.
What gets me out of bed in the morning:
Briefs or challenges that have no easy answer
Mey Tang
Office and Operations Manager
Mey Tang
Office and Operations Manager
Mey has 17 years of office management experience across the creative and digital space. She is passionate about optimising office workflow so that the team can maximise their potential and provide stellar service to clients.
What gets me out of bed in the morning:
Fostering a happy environment for a happy team
Grace French
Director/Head of Culture
Grace French
Director/Head of Culture
With a background in psychology, Grace has always been fascinated with what makes people tick. She uses behaviour change principles to get to the heart of any issue.
Grace leads the development and delivery of insight-based strategies for a range of organisations spanning social care, education, finance and healthcare.
In her dual role at Stand, Grace also works with organisations to interrogate and improve their culture, to unlock motivation and fuel performance, to help achieve business-critical objectives. She is also responsible for Stand’s own culture strategy.
Grace has an ILM Level 5 qualification in Leadership and Management, and a TQUK Level 2 qualification in Understanding Autism.
What gets me out of bed in the morning:
Helping people and organisations achieve their potential and instigate positive change
Cait Dacey
Associate Director
Cait Dacey
Associate Director
Cait is an expert in getting to the core of an organisation’s purpose, and helping them to combat systemic issues through strategic behaviour change.
Guided by her experience working with global, EMEA, and UK-based clients, Cait’s approach drives impact. As well as being the future of health lead at Stand, her experience spans many sectors including health and social care, equality, data, sustainability, and education.
She is incredibly passionate about how behaviour change can help to combat inequities, and has a qualification from LSE in Health Economics and Policy and a master's degree in Gender and Culture. She’s also a strong advocate for intersectional feminism, and helping to work towards equality.
What gets me out of bed in the morning:
Fighting to eradicate systemic inequalities, and creating a fairer future.
Sean Mackenney
Associate Director
Sean Mackenney
Associate Director
Sean is an experienced comms specialist who has worked across both non-profit and private sectors. With a background in food sustainability, Sean has devised and implemented movement-building and awareness campaigns for HSI UK and ProVeg International. He also led on the Forward Food programme, transforming plant-based provisions in public sector catering. Most recently he attended COP28, supporting Food4Climate, to amplify food in the climate conversation.
What gets me out of bed in the morning:
Creating and collaborating on work with real meaning and impact
Beth Davies
Account Director
Beth Davies
Account Director
Beth has experience working with a wide range of organisations and charities in sectors spanning education and health to sustainability and finance. She is a critical thinker who works to understand audiences and their motivators, cut through complexity, and bring stories to life.
In her role as Account Director, she is responsible for setting and delivering strategies for clients and ensuring activity achieves impact against business objectives.
What gets me out of bed in the morning:
Doing fun, interesting and rewarding work that has real-world impact
Marta Brodzka
Account Director
Marta Brodzka
Account Director
With 6+ years’ of experience, Marta has worked with mission-driven companies of all sizes to help them build trust and community.
She believes that any issue, no matter how complex, can be communicated in an accessible way, and show people how something can add value or meaning to their lives.
Having been in-house for a number of years, she understands the challenges clients face, and brings that perspective to her client relationships at Stand, working to act as an extension of a client's in-house team.
What gets me out of bed in the morning
Helping brands connect with new audiences by getting them out of their comfort zones (after coffee)
Simran Aniekar
Digital Account Director
Simran Aniekar
Digital Account Director
Simran is an award-winning marketer with experience in B2B and B2C marketing for financial services, food, healthcare and energy for industry leaders such as LV=, Brooks Macdonald, Newcastle Building Society, Agria Pet Insurance, Benenden Health, Control Risks, Healthy Food Healthy Planet and Pulse Clean Energy.
She specialises in turning complex offerings into clear, human messaging and executing impactful organic and paid digital strategies across LinkedIn, Meta, Google and email. From launching brands online to building lead generation strategies, Simran is driven by the results and impact of her creativity and digital work.
What gets me out of bed in the morning:
Supporting organisations that are genuinely working to have a positive impact on people and the planet.
Rachel Isaacs
Senior Account Manager
Rachel Isaacs
Senior Account Manager
Rachel is an empathetic communications specialist with 7 years of PR experience. She has delivered high-impact strategic communications and engagement activities for third sector clients and major companies across a range of industries.
With an aptitude for excellent client services, insight-driven strategies and creative campaigns, Rachel is always ready to step up to a challenge.
Her ultimate career passion is using the power of communication to tackle the complex issues facing communities and the world at large.
What gets me out of bed in the morning
Creating a fairer, more equal and inclusive society.
Hannah Sherrard
Senior Account Manager
Hannah Sherrard
Senior Account Manager
Hannah has wide-ranging experience working with a variety of UK, European and global health, wellness and charity clients. She enjoys developing thought-provoking campaigns and challenging the team to push their boundaries and think outside the box.
Hannah has a particular interest for all media-related activities and is proactive at forming ideas for achieving widespread coverage. She is creative and persuasive in her story-telling and is successful at regularly securing top-tier press coverage.
What gets me out of bed in the morning
Sparking real and positive change to better lives and the planet.
Lucy Knowles
Account Manager
Lucy Knowles
Account Manager
Lucy is a Senior Associate Consultant at Stand with a background in arts and marketing, holding a recent Arts and Cultural Management masters degree. This unique blend of creativity and strategic thinking defines her approach to work, being committed to the intersection of culture and communication. Lucy currently works with clients in the education, sustainability, and charity sectors and is passionate about DEI&B. She is dedicated to bringing diverse perspectives to the forefront of each project she works on.
What gets me out of bed in the morning:
Creating stories that take brands one step closer towards positive change
Samina Speirs
Account Executive
Samina Speirs
Account Executive
Having represented various non-profit organisations in the fundraising sector, Samina is well-versed and enthusiastic about advocacy and awareness-raising. She graduated in BA International Development at the University of Leeds, with a specialist focus on addressing social inequalities with practical action. At Stand, Samina's key areas are social justice, education, and health and social care - spanning across both digital and PR.
What gets me out of bed in the morning:
Getting the chance to learn about real-life stories and underrepresented issues, and sharing these with a range of audiences.
Amelia Moran
Account Executive
Amelia Moran
Account Executive
Lewi Stokes
Account Executive
Lewi Stokes
Account Executive
Lewi has experience of working with a wide range of organisations in the Tech, Finance, Health and Entertainment sectors. Building off his digital marketing background, Lewi seeks to better understand and connect with a range of audiences via personalised copywriting and media engagement. Having studied History & Politics, Lewi remains fascinated by the interactions between various spheres of industry and public life, and is optimistic about the role both can play in shaping the future.
What gets me out of bed in the morning
Doing varied work in order to help innovative and disruptive organisations grow themselves and their real-world impact.
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