Laura is an experienced healthcare leader and communications professional, with extensive experience across the NHS, digital and life sciences industries. She is currently Director of Strategy, overseeing health Innovation Manchester’s strategic priorities across the research and innovation portfolio, working closely with the rest of the executive team, staff, key stakeholders and partners. Her broad portfolio includes strategy and planning, innovation pipeline curation, user-led design and public engagement, programme assurance, organisational development, stakeholder engagement and partnerships, and strategic communications.

Laura has spent 15 years working in senior roles across the NHS in Greater Manchester, both in commissioning and provider organisations, and prior to that worked in corporate agencies specialising in business to business PR. She has a wealth of experience in managing complex and sensitive issues, strategy development and delivery, media relations and corporate affairs.

She enjoys using creative processes to see things differently and elicit new ideas and concepts towards solving problems, as well as encouraging success and creativity in others through positive leadership, inclusion, and coproduction.