This episode is a quiet rallying cry that change is possible, with co-founder of Hawkins Laxton & Co, Sian Hawkins. We trace Sian’s early drive to work, her psychology degree, and how volunteering on the National Domestic Violence Helpline led to paid frontline work supporting women fleeing abuse and shaped her feminist lens on patriarchy and systemic injustice. A trafficking case sparked her focus on modern slavery, research in Nepal, and a public affairs role at the Salvation Army. Sian describes shifting into policy and campaigning at Women’s Aid, helping secure coercive control legislation and later progress on family court child-contact presumption, emphasising that change is possible but slow. She explains Hawkins Laxton & Co’s work in strategic communications, public affairs, and personal branding, arguing visibility is leadership, grounded in evidence-based ethical influence, and encourages women to make “micro” changes, support other women, and make the invisible visible.

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Sian shouted out Clare Laxton. Find her here.

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