Mindful Marketing

The Slow Down Collective is dedicated to embracing slower moments in both life and work.

With over 20 years of experience in marketing, advertising and communications, I now work with trusted and talented associates to help businesses take a slower, more mindful and purposeful approach to their marketing activities.

Contact us about:

  • Marketing strategy and consultancy

  • Social Media Marketing - organic and paid

  • ‘Mindful Marketing’ group workshops for small businesses and marketeers of all levels

My business background

I’m a communications specialist with over 20 years’ experience of understanding audiences and developing successful and compelling, integrated marketing campaigns.

I spent the majority of my career in automotive Marketing and PR leading Communications teams at Volkswagen Group and Land Rover UK. Working with trusted associates, I now take that 'big brand' experience to help businesses of all sizes to get noticed through strong and compelling marketing strategies and advertising campaigns.

If you’d like to discuss how we can help your business with taking a slower, more mindful and purposeful approach to your marketing, please pop me an email via the button below or helen@theslowdowncollective.com.

  • Helen spoke about Slow Marketing at a network session of staff working in communications, marketing, social media and events in the Social Sciences Division at the University of Oxford, which I run. Her expertise in marketing was obvious - this woman knows her stuff - but what really brought her ideas to life was her approach to thinking about the audience, their values and connection. In my world, we're always moving quickly, churning out content and trying to get more messages out there - Helen's talk gave us all time to pause, reflect and think differently. The feedback from the session was excellent and I would highly recommend Helen for future events.

    Esme Wilks, Head of Communications - Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford

  • Digital Mums has worked with Helen on several occasions. We've been lucky enough to have Helen create some of our learning resources for our 350-hour vocational training courses in strategic social media marketing. She has a natural talent for instructional design and it would be difficult for us to find someone with more subject expertise than her! She also helped us set up systems and processes for keeping on top of our 200 social media lessons, which need constant updating. No mean feat. She's also delivered expert webinars/live lessons for our students on various aspects of social for businesses. I couldn't recommend Helen more highly in terms of her professionalism, skills and expertise but she's also a dream to work with.

    Kathryn Tyler, Digital Mums

  • I worked closely with Helen and her team for three months with them being in charge of my Facebook advertising campaigns and it was brilliant. Helen really knows her stuff and I felt totally great leaving her in control of my advertising. She successfully converted all of my ideas into campaigns and got my message across perfectly. I'll be working with Helen and team again on our next launch! Definitely, recommend.

    Sapphire Bates, The Coven

  • I recently attended a digital training session with Helen and can not recommend her highly enough. The training was well prepared informative and covered all areas I required. I was left empowered to implement the learnings. Helen has a fantastic personality and is a pleasure to work with.

    Steph Lucas, Click Up Solutions Partner

  • I had a fantastic workshop learning all about LinkedIn really worth every penny, great session plenty of information and great knowledge thank you 😊

    Ann Marie Robinson, Body & Mind Reboot

  • I'm working closely with Helen to build a Social Media Strategy for the business and recently had the privilege of participating in one of Helen’s LinkedIn Training Sessions along with my colleagues. The session was very well structured, delivery was enthusiastic, dynamic and highly engaging. We’re using the excellent training materials Helen provided, to roll out similar workshops across the business.

    Nicola Burrows, Spire Healthcare Group

  • I worked with Helen at Digital Mums on a complex project and can't recommend her enough. She is professional, calm and has meticulous attention to detail, she tackles any challenge with determination and is an absolute joy to work with! I particularly admire her communication skills in a remote working environment and her ability to enthuse others when a project becomes difficult or time consuming. I really hope we work together again in the future.

    Kate Perrins

  • Strategic; organised; delightful - my top three words to recommend the multi-talented Helen who was an absolute joy to work with at Digital Mums. Armed with an impressive marketing background and in-depth social media knowledge, Helen tackled her project management role with the highest level of professionalism and good humour to boot. A great asset to any business and I hope to work with her again.

    Fiona Bridges, Communications and Marketing Specialist

  • I worked with Helen at Digital Mums. She was always a fantastic project manager, knowledgable social media expert and of course, delightful to work with. Anyone who works with Helen will be lucky enough to have found that rare combination of expertise, a focus on results and a hugely enjoyable working relationship. Without a doubt, I would recommend Helen for a broad range of projects and roles spanning marketing, social media, training, project management and so much more.

    Ruth Thomson, Business and Career Coach

  • I went to a fantastic workshop run by Helen and Loren from Sunny Day Marketing and it was so useful and inspiring. I came away with lots of work sheets and action points and a renewed sense of purpose. Helen is so knowledgeable and explains things in really easy-to-follow ways. Highly recommended, thanks Helen.

    Becky Pink, Senior Copywriter

  • We've worked closely with Helen over the last few months and she's been a delight to work with. Very smart, always with insight and creative ideas, and a serious professional. We already feel she's part of our team and look forward to working together going forward.

    Alex Fairs, Addictivity