Team

Leadership

Flora Letanka

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Flora makes sure that everything we do is driven by our mission.

Tiffany Smyly

CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER

Tiff drives our growth - our overall growth strategy, our policy work, our ability to evidence our impact, developing our School Group Partnerships and our successful deployment of marketing resources.

Olivia Platman

DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMES

Olivia oversees the design and delivery of Topical Talk and other programmes. She’s focused on developing what we do to deepen the impact on students.

Harriet Boland

DIRECTOR OF FUNDRAISING AND PARTNERSHIPS

Harriet manages and oversees our fundraising and partnerships to help us utilise our network and create exciting opportunities for young people.

Programmes

Katie Campbell

HEAD OF EDUCATIONAL CONTENT

Katie leads the content team, who make our current affairs schemes of work, resources and workshops for young people.

Wumi Nuga

HEAD OF EDUCATIONAL CONTENT (MATERNITY COVER)

Wumi leads the content team, who make our current affairs schemes of work, resources and workshops for young people.

Stephanie Young

SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT LEAD 

Steff helps to remove any barriers for teachers delivering Topical Talk in their schools and enables them and their students to become champions of the resource by providing bespoke CPD and events.

Isabelle Parkin

SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT LEAD 

Isabelle supports our Topical Talk Communities so that we see the greatest possible impact. She also helps teachers to engage seamlessly with our programmes - from Prizes to Festival.

Maddy Keaveney

EDUCATIONAL CONTENT LEAD 

Maddy makes our current affairs schemes of work and resources for young people.

Kim Grosvenor

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Kim is our creative designer who brings our teaching resources to life with inspiring layouts and visuals. She also creates the design for our events and marketing materials.

Marketing and operations

Loretta Cooper

HEAD OF MARKETING

Loretta helps to raise awareness of our programmes and boost engagement, increasing our impact and reach so more young people can benefit from Topical Talk.

Elsa Cardona

HEAD OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCE

Manthura Mohamed

PROGRAMME OFFICER

Manni provides support across all areas of Topical Talk. She's the first point of call for teachers and makes the rest of the teams' jobs easier.

Fin Aitken

MARKETING EXECUTIVE

Fin manages our social media and leads digital community engagement, helping us reach thousands of students worldwide. He brings creativity and data-driven insights to our digital marketing channels, working closely with our team to inspire more teachers to deliver Topical Talk.