A Fellow in Higher Education (awarded through the UCA Business School); Teresa Havvas combines; teaching excellence with luxury & lifestyle brand & business expertise, to intuitively advise innovators and graduate talent meeting their potential.

Within an impressive portfolio career 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 Hunter Collective, & The British Beauty Council.

(‘T’’s) back catalogue of notable positions include; UK PR Manager PUMA sport-fashion, global & grass root projects; Marketing Director for Volt Magazine founded by - Cynthia Lawrence John & Rui Faria; PR & Salon Manager for the TaylorTaylor London Flagship; Founder and Creative Director of Canvas Life representing emerging and established artists and labels; an Associate Director for Jeff Boardman (BUREAU Agency) & agent for off schedule designers debuting during international 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 clippings, 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 company beyond its products into a lifestyle brand & community platform for true fans to share and co create their stories, as well as a nurturing space to profile (first) beauty communicators on the rise. 

In true polymath form, and to present day - Teresa continues to consult; is a VL - Course Leader for Fashion Branding and Communication online at Vogue College of Fashion; a Group Lead Lecturer for Fashion Business & Retail online at the FRA; a Module Leader at GCU for MSc Fashion & Lifestyle Marketing, as well as a Creative Business Mentor in residence for the pioneering Minds & More co-working - freelance beauty & artist studio.

All of which shapes to inform a future vision in progress - as Co Founder of The Advisory & - in partnership with Peter Penny a Global thought Leader for Gender Equality, Life coach and Educator specialising in NLP and Psychology for the workplace.

 

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.