On BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP
Marianne is an entrepreneur, and a business and leadership specialist. She is on a mission to challenge the dominant paradigms of business and leadership helping a new generation of leaders to re-create the world.
Photo by Brenna Duncan, 2022.
Highlights
Marianne set up her first company Justice Studio when she was 29. Over ten years, she grew it from a one woman band into a thriving consultancy business with no outside investment.
She was named as one of the most inspiring female entrepreneurs in 2022 by Small Business Britain.
Marianne began her career as a management consultant, training in leading public-sector consulting firms Capita Consulting, and Tribal Consulting where she worked on large organisational development programmes focused on human resource management.
She has worked with a number of small and medium sized organisations to help build their capacity.
Marianne has appeared on the podcasts The New P&L - Principles and Leadership in Business podcast series, Make an Impact and the Human CEO.
She holds a postgraduate degree in International Non-Government Organisation Management from, then Cass, now Bayes Business School focused on management, governance, capacity building, and managing change in governments and NGOs.
She has a Certificate in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors
Podcast appearances
Fear & Anxiety in Organisations, Justice Studio Sessions, 17th February 2024
The Resilient Entrepreneur, 21st February 2022
The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business, 9th September 2021
Make an Impact, 24th May 2021
The Human CEO, 5th April 2021
Articles
Are you a feminist Entrepreneur? Yes, if you care about these things January 2022. Medium
How can I ensure my organisation is anti-racist? A 9 point action plan July 2020. Justice Studio.
Reinventing Patriarchal Organisations September 2019. Medium.
Deciding the right legal-form for your Start-Up February, 2024, LinkedIn.
Why Justice Studio? January 2017. Justice Studio.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Justice Studio
Justice Studio was founded in East London on 17th May 2011
Justice Studio Office space, North-East London 2016-2018
Marianne founded Justice Studio in May 2011 when she was 29 years old. She was passionate about social justice and saw the need for empathetic consultancy in the sector. Frustrated by the alternatives, she wanted to try and do it differently. She wanted to see if she could create a consultancy driven by compassion but which was still effective and provided a quality service to charities, and governments over the world.
She built Justice Studio into a thriving consultancy with a clever, compassionate and dedicated team working to improve the social justice sector. At peak it had nine staff, and had completed over 100 consultancy projects in 30 countries worldwide. After 13 years, Marianne decided to close the business in November 2024.
Merchantess
This budding wine-importation business is waiting for the right time, partners and producers before it officially launches.