STORY
A Fellow in Higher Education (awarded through the UCA Business School); Teresa Havvas combines; teaching excellence with luxury & lifestyle brand & business expertise, to intuitively guide pioneers meeting their potential.
Within an impressive portfolio spanning fifteen years, are senior lectureship, external examiner and guest speaker roles at distinguished universities within the arts, as well as intervals of strategic insight for incubators in beauty; The CEW, The Red Tree, & The British Beauty Council.
(‘T’’s) back catalogue of career highlights include;
+ UK PR Manager PUMA sport-fashion, global & grass root projects.
+ Marketing Director for the launch of Volt Magazine founded by - Cynthia Lawrence John & Rui Faria.
+ PR & Salon Manager for TaylorTaylor London’s Flagship.
+ Founder and Creative Director of Canvas Life - a ‘good projects, good people’ collective of graduate talent fostered by T, working together to support on the rise artists and labels.
+ Associate Director for Jeff Boardman (BUREAU Agency).
+ Publicist & Sales Agent for on & off schedule designers showing during Fashion Weeks.
From 2012- 2024 Teresa progressed from Sales and Marketing Director of Lipcote to (consulting) Head of Brand and partner for Lipcote & Co (make-up accessories). Growing the business into two award winning lipstick and brow fixing icons listed at leading pharmacies and fashion-orientated retailers - garnering significant press coverage, book features, live brief & event partnerships with select arts institutes, as well as esteemed beauty photographers, writers and image makers. Entrusted by the MD, Teresa organically elevated a British heritage (SME) & family-owned into a lifestyle brand & community platform to profile (first) beauty communicators on the rise.
In true polymath form, and to present day - Teresa is a VL - Course Leader at Vogue College of Fashion; a Group Lead Lecturer at the FRA; a Module Leader at GCU for MSc Fashion & Lifestyle Marketing, as well as a Creative Business Mentor in residence with Minds & More.
All of which shapes to inform concepts in progress: The Advisory &; the Lipstick Papers; & The Collaborative Lens together with patron -Peter Penny; a Global thought Leader for Gender Equality, Life coach and Educator accredited in NLP and Psychology for Leadership- Oxford.
Flashback : T for BSide & Wale Adeyemi's Be your Own Future exhibition celebrating Wale's 20 years in the fashion business (Hoxton Gallery, London 2016)
*Teresa holds a BA (Hons) in Fashion Promotion (UAL); is trained in the art of Leadership and Transformation (The Concord Institute for Integral Studies, London), as well as Positive Intelligence (Shirzad Chamine, 100x Coaches grant). (She) is also a researcher/ contributing author and editor for select academic texts, journals and handbooks addressing the value and evolution of PR, Luxury Brand Management, Beauty Welfare & the Revolution of Fashion Retail.