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Ingrid Marsh is The Second Act Siren and the creator of LIGHTER, a framework designed to reduce the cognitive load of performance culture and restore clarity, decision-making and embodied leadership.

With over twenty years’ experience in corporate and account management - including work with ICV and clients such as JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley - she has long explored authenticity, communication and behavioural pressure in professional environments.

She later moved into entrepreneurship, founding Women With Voices, where she taught public speaking and delivered talks on unconscious bias and growth mindset. Her work focused on helping women speak with authority without self-erasure - a theme that would later evolve into her LIGHTER methodology.

In her early fifties, as a single mother, she transitioned into professional acting without formal training or industry connections. Within five years she had secured roles alongside Colin Salmon and Seann Walsh and appeared on the BBC’s Michael McIntyre’s Big Show.

A defining chapter of her life involved advocating for her son’s academic trajectory in the face of low institutional expectation. After being told he could not take triple science at one secondary school, she moved him mid-year. At his new school, he achieved A* in all three sciences and went on to study Economics and Politics at the University of Nottingham, followed by a Master’s in Law at the University of Exeter at age 22.

This lived experience of navigating expectation, performance pressure and systemic ceilings deeply informs her keynote work on self-monitoring and cognitive load.

Alongside her corporate and acting careers, she has worked in broadcasting for over twenty years across the BBC, LBC, Sky and independent stations. She has appeared as a guest on Nick Ferrari’s LBC show and joined panel discussions on OH TV (Sky) alongside MP Tessa Jowell and Paralympian Will Bayley.

She is a published spoken word poet, with her poem The Blind Side featured in Words By, a UNICEF-funded collection. She has written as a life coach columnist for The South London Press and contributed to Asian Star Radio.

In her fifties she also launched a tea brand, The Chai Vibe, trained as a master herbalist, and recalibrated her health through embodied, sustainable lifestyle change.

She lives in the UK with her son, Max-Oliver.

Selected Media & Experience

Corporate & Leadership

  • 20+ years in corporate and account management

  • ICV

  • Clients including JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley

  • Founder, Women With Voices

Broadcasting

  • BBC Radio

  • LBC (including appearances on Nick Ferrari’s show)

  • Sky / OH TV

  • Women’s Radio Station

  • Hayes FM

  • Colourful Radio

  • Westside Radio

  • Sydenham Radio

Acting

  • BBC – Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

  • Film roles alongside Colin Salmon

  • Film roles alongside Seann Walsh

  • Commercial work including Soho House and Heathrow Airport

    Full acting and presenting CV available at: https://app.spotlight.com/4535-0195-9648

Writing

  • Published spoken word poet

  • The Blind Side – Words By (UNICEF-funded collection)

  • Former columnist, The South London Press

For speaking enquiries, photographs and full CV, please contact:

IngridMarsh@btinternet.com