Natasha Ellard-Shoefield

Managing Director & Founder @The Hand Consulting Ltd

FounderAdvisorHead of GrowthConsulting🐦 DesignSales & BizDevBusiness OwnerMarketingStartup Founder

I am managing director of a specialist business development consultancy which excels in supporting creative agencies, change management firms and professional services industries. I am an experienced business mentor providing strategic growth advice and training to our clients and a New Business Director / Commercial Director / CGO on a fractional basis. Key Highlights include: As well as being Director of The Hand, I can support agencies and specialist b2b businesses in a fractional role as Commercial Director / Sales Director / CGO. Some key highlights of this are: Honey Creative for 9 months as their Commercial Director (supporting their going through strategic / tactical change)... Conran Design Group engaged me to come in for 6 months to retrain their business development team, overhaul their CRM and processes and put best practices in place... I worked with Visual Assets as their Commercial Director for 2 years (driving their growth strategy and outreach program)... For 2 years I supported global change management firm (MovePlan) who we (The Hand) still work with and support in a no. of regions, engaged me as Global Advisory Sales Director, helping drive their strategy and processes as they restructured their focus. The Hand benefits from my dedicated leadership as Managing Director, where I drive our mission of empowering creative agencies to flourish. With a focus on developing bespoke growth strategies, our team excels in stitching together new business development, marketing, and PR to construct a robust awareness and outreach framework. Leveraging my proficiency in Marketing Communications and New Business Development, we've successfully expanded our client base and nurtured long-standing relationships. By offering personalized consultancy and strategic roadmaps, The Hand has become synonymous with elevating agencies' profiles and steering them through the intricacies of the pitch process to achieve their business goals.