About Cllr Nikki Lloyd

I started out in telecoms working on global infrastructure, then moved into account management for a marketing agency. By my late twenties I was Sales and Marketing Director of a national consultancy, running strategic planning, branding, and business development across the team. I hold a first class BA (Hons) in European Marketing.

For around six years after that I ran my own freelance marketing and event-management business, covering everything from social media and content to large scale corporate events for clients from SMEs to global brands.

In my early thirties I retrained as a nurse and completed a first class BSc (Hons) in Adult Nursing. I went on to spend five years as an Oncology and Haematology Sister, managing a busy city chemotherapy unit, and led the development and launch of the UK’s first Zometa clinic for the management of multiple myeloma.

How to make a decision quickly with incomplete information. How to advocate for someone who cannot advocate for themselves. How to build trust with strangers in the worst week of their life.

More recently I have been in primary classrooms. As a TeachFirst Ambassador I completed the two year leadership PGDE and went on to become Head of Science and a curriculum development lead. From there I worked as a supply teacher across inner city primary schools, taking on classes from Key Stage 1 through to Year 6 SATs, including children with complex SEND and English as an additional language.

Teaching makes you an even better listener, and far less willing to put up with excuses dressed up as policy.