Charlie joined Bloomberg at the start of 2017 and rapidly expanded her network within the business across all departments. She regularly collaborates with colleagues from all business units, expanding her skills and knowledge of Bloomberg’s core products and services.
Throughout her career journey Charlie has always aspired to succeed and gravitates towards leadership roles. As a Project Manager for Bloomberg Media Studios within the Media division, Charlie has strong campaign management ability and a proven track record of achieving targets. She has experience leading agile project teams working across global campaigns, within a fast-paced and demanding commercial media environment. Confident when communicating with senior stakeholders, Charlie maintains a positive attitude and ensures she delivers flawless execution and customer service for business, finance and Government clients. Most recently she was nominated by management to complete the ‘Pathway To Leadership’ programme for high potential individual contributors around the world.
Charlie takes a leading role in the Bloomberg Women’s Community as Leadership Development Pillar Lead within the committee. She is passionate about developing the professional profiles of her peers and strives to co-ordinate a calendar year of events for employees at all levels to engage in. Charlie is a diversity and inclusion champion at Bloomberg. She encourages active participation in diversity activities across the Media department, sharing knowledge on company developments such as the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index. Charlie is a strong advocate for gender equality and champions creating opportunities for women in leadership roles. She actively encourages participation from male colleagues in the business to collaborate with and support current and future female leaders on their career journeys. As a Social Ambassador Charlie further amplifies Bloomberg Philanthropy activities through her social platforms.
Looking back, Charlie had a varied start to her career. Initially focused on joining the British Military, she rose to the rank of Junior Under Officer in the University Officers’ Training Corps based at Oxford. Tasked as a Section Commander of 15 Officer Cadets within a platoon of 50, Charlie motivated and trained individuals in preparation for field exercises to put military theory into practice. Alongside this she managed a nation student development programme, directing a cohort of 250 undergraduates through 10 week personal development programmes of direct sales over 4 years. This led to a role in a performance consultancy directed by an Olympic gold medallist rower; the organisation adopted Olympic winning strategies to develop high performance business training programmes. Charlie’s first media role was at The Telegraph for 2.5 years where she was recognised as an aspiring leader by the management team and was rapidly promoted to Senior Project Manger for Business and Finance.
Charlie is passionate about empowering future leaders therefore became a certified Career Mentor with the University of Reading, acting as a millennial coach, mentor and guest lecturer. Charlie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and International Relations with subsidiary modules in French from the University of Reading. Alongside her degree she also achieved level 1 and 2 ‘Leadership and Development’ certification from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which led on to her obtaining a level 5 certification from the Chartered Management Institute for ‘Management and Leadership’.