Managing director, thinkBIGGER
Smockum is managing director of thinkBIGGER, a talent development, management and consultancy company which specialises in groups historically excluded from the television industry. She began her television career in Canada, before moving to the UK and working for the BBC for seven years as a producer. After a five year stint in Paris working with Radio France International, she returned to the UK and became head of Short Courses at the National Film & Television School where she had previously been a freelance trainer. In 2007, she applied to Channel 4 for a job she didn’t get, and was subsequently asked by the Channel to set up a company to run a new entrant training programme for underrepresented people — and thinkBIGGER! was born.
