Alison Grade
Education
INSEAD
MBA, MBA 2001-01-01 - 2001-01-01
University of Cambridge
Management Studies, Business Administration and Management, General 1989-01-01 - 1992-01-01
South Hampstead High School, GDST
A' Levels, Maths, Physics and Chemistry 1982-01-01 - 1989-01-01Work Experience
Mission Accomplished
Current
Mission Accomplished
ScreenSkills
Current
ScreenSkills
Create Central
Current
Create Central
The Freelance Bible by Alison Grade
Current
The Freelance Bible by Alison Grade
FutureLearn
Current
FutureLearn
Creative UK
Current
Creative UK
Creative Industries Federation
Current
Creative Industries Federation
Centre for the New Midlands
Current
Centre for the New Midlands
PhoneBox Productions Ltd
Current
PhoneBox Productions Ltd
Simon Sinek's The Optimism Company
2023-08-01 - 2025-01-01
Simon Sinek's The Optimism Company
Skills
Summary
Alison describes her key skill as transforming creative ideas into a business reality. She accomplishes this with the films she produces, the creative entrepreneurs she mentors, SMEs she advises and in her book The Freelance Bible (Penguin, March 2020). Alison has formal academic training (INSEAD MBA) as well as being an entrepreneur who has established her own businesses. She has worked at senior level in many media companies - predominantly in international television and film production, rights management and strategy. Currently Alison owns Mission Accomplished, a consultancy offering training, mentoring and strategic advice to start-ups and established SMEs in the Creative Industries. To date she has assisted over 200 SMEs via these programmes. As a Nesta accredited Creative Enterprise trainer and mentor Alison has delivered international programmes in association with the British Council. Alison is also the CEO of Screen Central, a body that connects and trains the West Midlands’ thriving community of film, TV, animation, games and new media producers During her career, Alison has produced over 7,000 minutes of film and television and has worked on documentaries, animation, drama, feature films, factual and entertainment productions on both high and low budgets. More recently she concentrated on the commercial exploitation of intellectual property rights in media content across a wide range of platforms through distribution and licensing. Her non-media experience includes founding Girls Angels, a motorcycle training school that specialised in training women, which she took from idea to profitable business to trade sale in under two years and a highly successful business bringing hands-on media training into schools.
