Gill brings her creative business development work to Watershed's training programme on the Create Growth Programme with WECA.  Her focus is the nature and support of creative business, helping them understand and work with their customers or audiences, and finding routes to market. Starting with how to design that process, and using the kinds of tools and methods used by industry. She knows how creating a vision, making purposeful strategy & aligning everything you design makes for successful purposeful and regenerative business and happy founders. She also connects with investors of all types, bringing them into this inspiring space of new ideas.


Gill’s background is in innovation, strategic design and bringing new products and services to market. She has consulted for corporate clients such as BBC, Nokia, Microsoft, Oculus and many others through her company Plot, and brings this experience plus a design-led approach to business development. She worked at the UK Design Council developing new work around the use of design for startups. She has designed and taught new programmes with some great students at Hyper Island, Carnegie Mellon University, Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee.

Her work incubating creative and social micro businesses through Upstarter (which was her side project) is what brings her to Bristol. She has previously worked with Watershed as Business Development Advisor for the South West Creative Technology Network, Bristol + Bath Creative R+D and the Pervasive Media Studio on the  REACT Alumni programme, and the Network for Creative Enterprise at Spike Island, KWMC The Factory and the Guild, Bath.
gill.w.@watershed.co.uk