Lou Peck is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of The International Bunch. Lou is passionate about accessibility and co-founded the ALPSP DEIA group with Simon Holt, as well as being involved in promoting better accessible practices in marketing. She has worked in the research and standards ecosystem since 2004, and in marketing since 1999. After working in-house for organizations like the British Standards Institution (BSI), the Royal Society of Chemistry, Kudos and ProQuest, since 2016 she has been supporting societies, academic publishers and presses, intermediaries and institutions as a consultant. Lou specializes in strategy, research, being a sounding board for senior management, and delivering coaching and training programmes. Lou volunteers with CILIP, SSP, ALPSP, the Freelance Coalition for Developing Countries, and Business Wales. Lou lives on the Gower peninsula in Wales, with her family, and a small ‘zoo.’
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