Maria Boyle is available for Non-Executive Director and advisory board roles with ambitious businesses in luxury, consumer, media and the female founder space. She brings 25 years of senior strategic communications experience, and an instinct for what reputation means at the highest level.

Reputation at board level

Reputational risk is now a boardroom issue. Maria brings a rare lens: not as an observer, but as someone who has managed it live, under pressure, for some of the world’s most prestigious brands. She has guided clients through issues management and sensitive media situations, ensuring they never hit the headlines.

Luxury, heritage and legacy

Twenty-five years building and protecting luxury brands. Maria understands what premium positioning demands, and how quickly it can be eroded without the right counsel. Her heritage and legacy work includes advising an author’s trust.

Female founder networks

Maria is deeply embedded in the world of ambitious female-led businesses, and media-trains and mentors founders and leaders. She is a valuable connection for boards seeking access to a growing pool of founders and collaborators.

Commercial communications

Every board benefits from someone who can credibly challenge the communications strategy. Having run her own business profitably for over two decades, Maria understands P&L, pricing and growth from the founder’s side, so her challenge comes from hard-won experience, not theory.

• Youngest person appointed to the Hill & Knowlton Board, and the agency’s first Head of Media

• Board member, Women in Journalism

• Founder and Managing Director, MB Communications, for over two decades

• Deep expertise in luxury brand communications

• Specialist in female founder and female-led business PR, a growing and underserved priority for forward-thinking boards

• Big agency experience combined with the agility and accountability of running a senior boutique practice

• Track record advising high-profile clients on brand reputation

• Named a Luxury Woman to Watch by Luxury Daily, and ranked by PR Week among the UK’s top three independent PR consultants

And a little black book built over 25 years.

Beyond high-level media relations, Maria brings board experience, reputation strategy, heritage, legacy and brand work, and media training and mentoring for founders and leaders. Plus, a little black book built over 25 years. She has also guided clients through issues management and sensitive media situations, ensuring they never hit the headlines.

Get in touch

Maria is available for up to two board or advisory roles. If you’re a chair, investor or founder exploring NED appointments, she would welcome a conversation.