Bryony
Thomas

Best-selling Author.

Award-winning Speaker.

Who is Bryony Thomas?

Bucket Lady. Elephant Spotter. Multi-Million Pound Cat Thief.

The Bucket Lady

The Bucket Lady

Bryony Thomas is one of the UK’s foremost marketing thinkers. She is the author of Watertight Marketing, which has been in its best-sellers list consistently for over five years, with no gimmicks. This ground-breaking book has been described variously as “the entrepreneurs’ essential marketing manual”, “a work of genius”, and “a licence to print money”. Centred on replacing the ubiquitous sales funnel diagram with a better metaphor of a Bucket, Funnels and Taps, Bryony is often known as The Bucket Lady.

The Elephant Spotter

The Elephant Spotter

She has a disarmingly honest working style, that means that people have often seen her as a marketing confidante more than a consultant. Landing as the divisional director of marketing for FTSE 100 company, Experian, at the age of 28, Bryony quickly developed a knack for asking the questions that matter. If there’s something that needs addressing, you’ll find Bryony pointing to it. This earned her the nick-name, The Elephant Spotter

The Cat Thief

The Multi-Million Pound Cat Thief

Bryony is also an in-demand professional speaker for business audiences wanting to understand how to deliver sustainable sales results. Whether it’s a boardroom, team day, or a large conference venue, Bryony can be trusted to inspire, engage and entertain. But, more importantly people will leave her talks with immediate actions to take. She has a unique and memorable speaking style, and is often heard describing how to build multi-million pound businesses in the same way as you’d steal your neighbour’s cat. And so, is known as The Multi-Million Pound Cat Thief.

Bryony’s Journey

In 2008, Bryony started the journey towards what is today the Watertight Marketing Methodology, working with ambitious growing businesses delivering 12-month marketing transformation programmes. Through her book, her speaking, her events and her hands-on support, Bryony Thomas now gives small business owners the clarity and the structure to step off the roller coaster. To get their marketing to put their business on a sustainable upward curve. Bryony Thomas is The Watertight Marketer.

She does all this part-time around her family, and can be often found playing in the sand pit with her daughter or snuggled up with her soppy grey tom cat, Dylan.

Oh, and, she also loves a strong cup of tea. Milk, no sugar. And, if you’re getting the biscuits in, Bryony will have a pink wafer!

Award-Winning Marketing Speaker for Business Events

Bryony Thomas is an energetic marketing speaker who shows businesses and entrepreneurs how to take calm, confident, control of their business growth. Her speaking style is no-nonsense and direct. She doesn’t shy away from tough subjects, and makes highly effective use of memorable analogies to make her advice stick. Bryony has a real skill for adapting her content to suit the needs of her audience, both through thorough preparation, and by being extremely quick-witted and responsive to the audience in front of her.

Amazing book, easy to follow and written in human language. It’s how to run a business well, written by a marketing expert.

Oliver James 
Oliver James

The Profit Priority Profile is a truly useful and helpful tool, that helped us realise there is always a scope for improvement. Leaks are straight forward and easy enough to identify, plan a solution and accordingly apply into practice.

Jelena Tatarenkova Stellarise
Jelena Tatarenkova

Yesterday’s session was a real eye-opener for me. Coming from a commercial background, I understand the value of good marketing, but the session gave me a different perspective on how marketing can directly support sales and business growth. I would almost describe it as a sales enablement session rather than a marketing workshop.

Nick Hart PSP Ltd
Nick Hart

“Exceeded expectations. The Touchpoint Leak™  Assessment meeting with Rachael was an epiphany.”

Ian Else Ovation Finance
Ian Else

The Confidence & Clarity Conference 2018 opened my eyes more to how we can take our marketing to the next level… Probably the best conference I’ve been on to date.

Richard Starkey H&R Group
Richard Starkey

Marketing Author

Bryony Thomas is a prolific and inspiring writer on marketing. Bryony’s articles range from highly instructive ‘how to’ style information, perfect for the marketer or business owner wanting to roll their sleeves up, to more conceptual missives for the marketing professional. Her articles regularly appear in the business press. Bryony is also the author of ‘Watertight Marketing – delivering long-term sales results’.

I first met Bryony at a presentation she gave to a Vistage directors’ forum group. Her in-person presentation is truly engaging, as is her passion for the subject, but her content goes beyond feel-good. I could see how her insights about marketing weren’t just a good talk, but truly about doing good business, the right business and being good at what you do. Since then, I have engaged with her and her business to improve mine and attract the right types of clients. If you want to keep more of the business you want and need and attract more of it, I wholeheartedly recommend contacting Bryony.

Luke Verrall Newtown Packaging Limited
Luke Verrall

Yesterday’s session was a real eye-opener for me. Coming from a commercial background, I understand the value of good marketing, but the session gave me a different perspective on how marketing can directly support sales and business growth. I would almost describe it as a sales enablement session rather than a marketing workshop.

Nick Hart PSP Ltd
Nick Hart

Yesterday’s session was superb! As you say the perception of marketing can be “colouring in”, a lot of business leaders have limited understanding of the breadth of it and your session does an incredible job at opening people’s eyes to the power of marketing. But importantly, to take away a meaningful action plan.

David Woodcock PSP Ltd
David Woodcock

“[The Ask Almost Anything surgery] was an incredibly useful and valuable session – more than worth the membership fee for this alone!”

Rebecca Wise Marketing Manager, Premier Heating Solutions
Rebecca Wise

“A huge thanks you for your workshop on Saturday. It was a really engaging session and I came away with a clear idea of what to work on next and lots of ideas.”

Stephanie Martinez-Hill Events Officer of the ITI Western Regional Group
Stephanie Martinez-Hill