Carol Ann Whitehead brings a wealth of communications and events experience.  A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Carol Ann is also Managing Director of agency the Zebra Partnership and a lecturer in event management and production.

An award-winning publisher from the European Publishing Institute, Carol Ann has also won many other awards including Regional and National Winner of the Forward Ladies Mentor of the Year and the WeAreTheCity Rising Star Champion award.

Carol Ann co-founded the Ada Lovelace Day Zebra Global Wikieditathon and is founding member of BURN (The Black United Representation Network) which is actively tackling persistent racial inequalities in Greater Manchester through economic empowerment of communities and businesses.  In 2019 Carol Ann was awarded the honour of Global Goodwill Ambassador.

A member of ‘The People’s Hub’ an Action Partner of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). She has delivered a lecture at the UN Youth Association in Denmark, was a participant of the Global Festival of Action in Bonn, Germany and in 2019 was awarded the honour of Global Goodwill Ambassador title.