About
Strategic thinking
“Helen is an excellent strategic thinker with huge reserves of energy and exceptional focus. She is not afraid to come up with innovative solutions that disrupt, and accompanies that with a thoughtful, sensitive approach to team members and relationships. Her rigorous approach to project-planning and deliverables means she follows through with excellent results.”
Denise Bates – Group Publishing Director, Octopus Publishing Group, Hachette
Highly creative
“Helen is extremely motivated, adaptable to changing landscapes and always able to bring her highly creative mind to bear on any problem. She always overdelivers on expectation and brings an infectious energy to everything she does. She is a strategic thinker with natural leadership skills. I cannot recommend her highly enough.”
David Watchus – Chief Executive Officer, Dragonfly Labs
Innovative culture
“She is passionate about the pursuit of new ideas, and how to create an innovative culture in teams, but combines this with a ruthless strategic brain – a combination which I found invaluable in her leadership role. This broader strategic insight meant I frequently called on her for her perspectives on other business areas.”
Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes – Head of Investor Relations, Waymo, Google
Sparking new ideas
The Concept Lab was created in 2019 by Helen Brocklehurst to offer management consultancy and product development to the Publishing industry.
I spent 20 years working in the publishing industry, as former Head of AA Publishing & Digital (2011-2018) and Editorial Director for HarperCollins (2002-2009). Before that, I also worked at Random House and Taylor & Francis.
I employ design, editorial and technical expertise from my extensive network of skilled professionals. My consultancy is always personal, and my team is (very) carefully selected.
The Concept Lab is founded on the belief that behind all good ideas there is an editorial process at work.
A sharp eye to spot opportunity;
the candour to cut anything that doesn’t work;
and the craft to deliver something that adds genuine value.
THE CONCEPT LAB