For more than 30 years, I've worked with businesses, brands and people. Looking at what's happening, noticing what others might miss and helping turn ideas, challenges and opportunities into movement and results.
How I work sits with thinking, strategy, intuition and experience.
Whether we're talking about your business, your marketing, an idea you're trying to bring to life, or a significant change in your own life, I create the space to look at the bigger picture. And we work out what you want to do with what you see.
I'm Emma Lannigan. Thinker, strategist, intuitive and observer of life.
30 years of business, marketing and people
I've spent 30 years working with marketing and businesses; from strategy, brand and PR to events, lead generation, digital and growth planning.
I've worked inside businesses, alongside founders and with organisations at very different stages of growth. That experience means I rarely look at one thing in isolation. Marketing connects to the offer, the customer, operations, people, money, ambition and ultimately the person making the decisions.
That's why much of my work today starts with thinking rather than doing.
There has always been another way I see the world
Alongside the commercial part of my life, I've spent years exploring energy, intuition and the things we can't always explain through a spreadsheet or strategy document.
I wrote a book about finding happiness for a lifetime: belifehappy. I'm a Reiki Master and Teacher, an advanced Akashic Reader and trained across NLP, coaching, hypnotherapy and Timeline Therapy.
I don't separate those experiences from the rest of who I am. They've deepened the way I listen, notice patterns, ask questions and understand what can sit behind the decisions we make.
Some of my work is entirely strategic. Some is deeply intuitive. And most of the time both belong in the same conversation.
Making sense of life
My own life hasn't followed a straight line.
I've built a career, lived in Yorkshire, London and Cyprus, returned to South Lincolnshire, built businesses, wrote and self published a book (belifehappy), become a mother through adoption, experienced profound loss, navigated divorce and have rebuilt my life several times (in different countries.)
Those experiences have changed how I see people, business, risk, change and what's possible.
And because I've lived through situations that demand a version of you - you don't know exists until it happens, I don't have your fear.
I can sit alongside the difficult decision, the big ambition, the uncertainty, the thing you're frightened to say out loud or the idea that feels too big, without needing to make it smaller for you or ignore it.
Making Sense of Life is really what I've always been doing.
Get to know me
Work with me
The Thinking Table | Three Months with Emma | The Reset | 12 Twenty Business
Read & listen
Making Sense of Life Journal | Podcast | Newsletter
You can have your formal credentials much further down, almost as a quiet factual section:
Experience & training
30 years' marketing experience · BA (Hons) Business with Marketing · CIM Postgraduate Diploma · Reiki Master/Teacher · Advanced Akashic Reader · NLP Practitioner & Coach · Hypnotherapy · Timeline Therapy