I love travel and am constantly planning my next trips. Recent highlights have included:

• Canada - a beautiful trip seeing Niagara Falls, bears and learning about the First Nations

• Travelling around New Zealand, learning about Māori history and enjoying the incredible scenery

• Trekked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, visited the floating islands on Lake Titicaca and swam with sea lions in the Galápagos Islands

• Scuba diving on shipwrecks in the south of France

Not all fun has to come from big trips and I'm very happy staying local too.

I adore being outside and some of my favourite things include:

• Walking in the Yorkshire Dales

• Trips to the seaside (Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay being firm favourites)

• Arranging scuba diving trips - as a qualified Dive Leader there's lots to explore!

I am highly organised and have been asked to plan more parties/events/hen dos and work socials than I care to name. I also have a weakness for taking small personal projects far too seriously — most recently designing a full set of illustrated mission cards, secret scrolls, and ninja certificates for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles birthday party, complete with an activity schedule and a mission stamp system. My most demanding stakeholder to date (aged 5) was extremely satisfied with the deliverables. 

"It's a marathon not a sprint" - or in my case "it's not even a marathon and I'm still not sprinting!"

I'm a slow plodder but it doesn't deter me - I love getting out for a run when I can and am currently training for the Great North Run later this year.

There's more product management in training than I'd like to admit: a distant goal, a weekly plan that reality keeps rewriting, and progress that only shows up if you trust the process.