Eleanor Whitfield

About the speaker

Building rooms where people belong

Eleanor founded the Ashcombe Professionals League nine years ago around a single belief: careers are built in conversation, not in inboxes. What began as a monthly breakfast for forty members is now a 5,000-strong community spanning founders, operators, marketers and students.

Before Ashcombe, she spent fifteen years leading partnerships at two London publishing houses. Her opening keynote traces how deliberate, generous networking compounds over a career — and why she still introduces every new member personally.