David Woods-Hale – Editor

Strategic direction of marketing, publications and reports, media relations, stakeholder communications, content strategy and association magazines, research and insight, and conference production, as well as policy and public affairs.

Direction of the Association of MBAs's member magazine Ambition, which was named Digital Magazine of the Year in the Memcom Awards (2017) and a finalist for The Association Excellence Awards Magazine of the Year (2017) within one year of launch.

Direction of the Business Graduates Association's magazine, Business Impact.

Direction and execution PR strategy.

Responsible for editorial direction of AMBA and BGA's online thought leadership schedules; webinar contributors; special publications and white papers; content marketing; and annual reports.

Responsible for oversight and direction of AMBA and BGA's global research strategy.

Humm Media is a strategic communications company which helps individuals and businesses cut through the noise.

Myself and my business partner were responsible for devising and executing PR, social media and intelligent content strategies for global brands including Foster Denovo, OC Tanner and Dorchester Collection, across the healthcare, not-for-profit, hospitality, HR, pensions and academic arenas.

Heading up editorial strategy, I was tasked with with ghost-writing and editing speeches, blogs, articles, award entries and books for a variety of academic and business leaders and corporate worldwide.

During my time with Humm Media, we launched a book publishing division, Humm Publishing, with three books published in the space of three months.

I managed all book lists and eBooks for the UK and North America and was responsible for the people management of series editors, copy editors and designers as well as social media, marketing and PR teams in offices in London and New York.

I had responsibility for sourcing and acquiring authors in the English language and carrying out structural and developmental edits on manuscripts.

The role involved devising and executing editorial, PR and marketing strategies as well as planning budgets and P&L forecasts for each project.

I was a key decision maker on new business development and devised and executed strategies for online learning and a journals division within the company.

I have also personally edited and published further high-charting books including It’s Never OK to Kiss the Interviewer, the multi award-winning Not Knowing, In the Shower with Picasso and The Impact Code.

As editor of the British Journal of Community Nursing, I commissioned, edited or wrote all the content and managed eight annual supplements as well as chairing the editorial board. I also had involvement in creating commercial special projects and pushing up subscription numbers.

I was deputy editor of the fortnightly news magazine Independent Nurse.

As deputy editor of HR magazine, I oversaw the print and online editorial features as well as five annual supplements. I managed two rebrands of the website.

I liaised with advertising teams to devise creative commercial solutions and launched an award-winning campaign to change employment law in the UK.

In 2012 I was ranked the world’s number one online influencer the subject of employment law, I was awarded HR Journalist of the Year and Career Development Journalist of the Year at the Towers Watson Media Awards, and I was a finalist at both the DLA Piper Media Awards for Business Journalist of the Year and MHP ‘30 to Watch’.

The Mark Allen Group presented me with the accolade of Employee of the Year in 2012.