Leading Initiatives

Led EMEA social media strategy for creators and consumers, along with owned social channels. Supported the launch of YouTube Shorts by identifying trends to kickstart a trends engine and drive relevancy for the new product. Led multiple x-Google initiatives around key EMEA topics that supported executive and Google properties.


  • Led on both the global and EMEA wide #WithMe initiative including supporting the social strategy around partners including the Vatican and national governments and health services. Helped craft activation and messaging around the global #WithMe campaign for creators and livestreams such as Andrea Bocelli's Music for Hope which has over 44 million views.

  • As the Ukraine war broke out, there were big questions happening across all Google businesses on what we should do, and how we can support both employees and users of services. With my position in EMEA, I helped drive the insights from social on global perception, misinformation, and creators in trouble in the region. This helped craft a quickly executed initiative on social and on platform to inform creators how to secure their accounts, as well as create a protocol for creators that were seen to be in danger from the conflict.

  • With the anniversary of the Holocaust, there was a question across the business of how or if we should support. The initial idea was for YouTube social to put out a tweet, but knowing the community and the perception, worked to build a more robust strategy so it wouldn't be seen as an empty gestured. I therefore led the cross Google initiative that involved Google Culture and Arts team updating their Holocaust stories and content, driving the executive strategy for the CEOs of YouTube and Google to support on social, and building out a comprehensive social plan for all Google channels and key opinion leaders.

YouTube Shorts

With the launch of YouTube Shorts, the company was competing against the giant of TikTok. The key factor missing was the ability for trend content to be built on YouTube Shorts before TikTok. To help support this effort, I worked to help build a trends engine that identified trends on platform early, seed them to creators, and find ways to amplify across other social channels.


YouTube Creators

Creators are the heart of YouTube, they are also our biggest advocates and critics. To ensure we built positive relationships and perception for the platform, a strategy was designed to help humanise the brand via actually showing up for our creators where they were. By actually watching creator content, commenting, and elevating their content across YouTube channels, we saw a positive sentiment shift across for YouTube across the communities. These learnings were scaled out globally to all markets and also built in to our event strategy to ensure we connected and supported our creators at local, regional, and global events - building shareable moments, but also moments of connection.

Connecting Creators and Fans

Building on the insight of creators and their connection to their communities, worked on initiatives such as YouTube Love Notes that elevated fan comments in support of their creators to let the creators see how appreciated they were. Other activations include cross-Google partnerships for International Women’s Day and holiday moments.