Contact Me

Press and Media

Download Media Kit
Download Profile Image 
Download Actor Image
Download Speaker Image


SHORT BIO

Ingrid Marsh is a speaker, actor, and founder of The PULSE: For the Un‑Scripted Soul. She describes herself as a perceptual outlier: someone who never absorbed the unwritten social rules others followed instinctively.

For years, her natural way of being was triggering to some and a profound relief to others. Decades later, sharpened by watching how AI learns through patterns, she understood why: most people absorb a social script so early they see themselves through an inner mirror of imagined judgment. Ingrid simply never learned that script.”

Raised around her mother’s Saturday kitchen table, a flat‑hierarchy space where belonging required no performance, she developed a way of being that later shaped her work on identity pressure, cognitive load, belonging and organisational culture.

After a 20‑year corporate career with clients such as J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley, she stepped into acting in her 50s with no formal training, appearing on BBC productions and major commercial screens.

Acting didn’t teach her performance; it was one of the first environments where her natural way of being was recognised as a strength.

Through The PULSE, Ingrid helps organisations and individuals reduce self‑interference, unlock clearer thinking, and create environments where trust, creativity and natural expression can flourish.

She lives in the UK with her son, Max, whom she affectionately calls “Papa.”

LONG BIO

Ingrid Marsh is a speaker, actor, and founder of The PULSE: For the Un‑Scripted Soul. She describes herself as a Perceptual Outlier: a woman whose mirror‑free way of perceiving the world has shaped a life lived outside the culture’s performance reflex. She never absorbed the unwritten rules everyone else seemed to follow. For years, her natural way of being was deeply triggering to some and an overwhelming relief to others. The journey was understanding why, a realisation sharpened by watching how AI learns: it recognises patterns and scripts. I saw that human behaviour runs on the same logic, with most people absorbing a social script so early they never realise it’s running -- a script I simply never learned.”

Her perceptual stance began at her mother’s Saturday kitchen table, a flat‑hierarchy mix of aunts, uncles, neighbours, blood and chosen family. Many personalities, one PULSE. Belonging required no performance. No masks. No rank. This early environment became her compass and later the foundation of her Flat Horizon principle: low ego, high trust, and a clear field of perception where people can think, create and lead without distortion.

Before entering acting, Ingrid spent over twenty years in corporate account management at ICV, working with clients including J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. Alongside this, she built entrepreneurial ventures ahead of their time, from a French lifestyle shop in Islington to Women With Voices, where she helped women speak with authority without self‑erasure.

A defining chapter of her life involved her son’s education. Despite achieving the highest national SATs results, he was placed in a lower academic stream where Triple Science was not offered. Ingrid fought a two‑year battle, ultimately moving him mid‑year to protect his spirit. He went on to achieve A* grades in Triple Science and A and A* grades in his other subjects, earn degrees from Nottingham and Exeter Universities, and enter the City’s Square Mile. The experience sharpened her understanding of how expectations become ceilings, how identity is distorted by external perception, and how easily people begin to see themselves through other people’s mirrors.

At 53, Ingrid stepped into acting with no drama school, no industry connections and no grand plan. What others saw as reinvention felt to her like entering another room. Acting did not teach her performance; it was one of the first environments where her natural way of being was recognised as a strength. As she moved from student films to BBC productions and major commercial campaigns, people repeatedly commented on a distinct quality she could not initially explain. Years later, through observation, research and her work on cognitive load, she understood what she had been sensing all along: much of what we call confidence, professionalism or fitting in is often a form of unconscious performance — and she simply wasn’t doing it.

Today, Ingrid brings her Flat Horizon principle to organisations and individuals through The PULSE: For the Un‑Scripted Soul. Her work removes behavioural distortion, restoring clean perception where clarity replaces overthinking, trust replaces self‑protection, and people can return to their natural way of being. She is known for a style that is warm, grounded and quietly disruptive.

She lives in the UK with her son, Max, whom she affectionately calls Papa.


PRESS NARRATIVE

Most people move through the world inside an invisible hall of mirrors, adjusting themselves, managing impressions and performing to meet expectations they never chose. Ingrid Marsh never learned that reflex.

She didn’t absorb the unwritten rules everyone else seemed to be following. For years, her natural way of being was triggering to some and a profound relief to others. The journey was understanding why, a realisation sharpened by watching how AI learns: it recognises patterns and scripts. I saw human behaviour works the same way, with most people absorbing a social script so early they don’t realise it’s running - a script I simply never learned

Her perceptual stance began at her mother’s Saturday kitchen table: a flat‑hierarchy space where belonging required no performance. Many personalities, one PULSE. That early environment taught her that when people stop managing impressions, trust deepens, ideas move faster and genuine community flourishes. It also meant she entered adulthood with a way of being that didn’t match the script.

Ingrid spent decades in environments where fitting in, managing impressions and understanding hierarchy mattered. Her story is not “corporate is bad.” It is: “What happens when someone brings humanity back into places where people have forgotten it?” The very thing people assumed needed fixing was the thing that made her valuable.

She was often the outlier in the room. Her way of being created reactions. Eventually she realised the issue was not her difference, but what happens when a mirror‑free perspective enters spaces organised around performance, status and impression‑management.

This tension became unmistakable in her son’s education. Despite achieving the highest national SATs results, he was placed in a lower academic stream where Triple Science was not offered. Ingrid refused to let external mirrors become his internal reality. After a two‑year battle, she moved him mid‑year; he went on to achieve A* grades in Triple Science and A and A* grades in his other subjects, earn degrees from Nottingham and Exeter Universities, and enter the City’s Square Mile. This chapter sharpened her understanding of how quietly expectations around race, age and gender become ceilings, and how easily other people’s assumptions become our own.

At 53, Ingrid stepped into acting with no drama school, no industry connections and no five‑year plan. Within a few years, she appeared on BBC productions and major commercial screens. What others saw as reinvention felt to her like entering another room. Acting did not teach her performance; it was one of the first environments where her natural way of being was recognised as a strength. People repeatedly commented on a distinct quality she could not initially explain. Years later, through observation, research and her work on cognitive load, she understood what she had been seeing all along: much of what we call confidence, professionalism or fitting in is often a form of unconscious performance — and she simply wasn’t doing it.

Through The PULSE: For the Un‑Scripted Soul,  Ingrid brings her Flat Horizon principle: low hierarchy, low ego, high trust, to organisations and individuals. Her work exposes the hidden cognitive cost of impression‑management and offers a grounded alternative: a return to our natural way of being, where clarity replaces overthinking, trust replaces self‑protection and human difference becomes an advantage rather than a problem to solve.

Her story is not one of reinvention. It is the story of a woman who never learned to live by the mirror, and what she discovered by standing outside it.

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 use the form below.