Sue Keogh

Director

With a background at the BBC, ITV, Aol, Yahoo and more, our Founder is a recognised specialist in digital content. She hosts our Skillshare courses and is a judge at the National Business Women’s Awards.

Sue started out in radio, working at independent radio production company Smooth Operations to produce specialist music content documentaries, series and live events for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4, before becoming editor of the BBC Country website and managing forums for Soaps.

She became Project Manager for ITV.com, overseeing content for flagship programmes including Coronation Street, Pop Idol, Emmerdale and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, then website editor for Heat magazine and Magic FM.

As a freelance homepage editor for Yahoo! and AOL she produced entertainment, sports and breaking news content about Big Brother, the World Cup and the London 7/7 bombings.

In 2008, Sue founded Sookio with the goal of supporting businesses in need of high-quality website content and social media services but who wanted the flexibility of outsourcing to specialists.

Known for her plain-talking, fun approach to digital, she is always beating the drum for quality, accessible content, and finding ways to help people of all backgrounds get into the industry.

Speaker and podcast contributor

She is is regularly asked to speak at events, on the radio and TV on topics including digital content, marketing and communications, and women in business and tech.

BBC Radio 5Live
ITV East Anglia
Digital Leaders Week 2021, 2020, 2022
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Chamber of Commerce, Cambridge Wireless, One Nucleus, Cambridge Network
Host of The Business of Cambridge series and podcast on Cambridge 105 Radio
Sage Business Expert

Awards

Sue is a judge at the National Business Women’s Awards.

Finalist, Digital Communications Business Owner, British Business Awards 2019
Finalist three times in the Best Business Women Awards for her work in Marketing & PR
Silver, Business Person of the Year in the SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards 2020
Silver, Business Person of the Year in the SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards 2022

community engagement

Sue is a Fellow of the RSA, and helped homelessness initiative It Takes A City when it was first getting off the ground in Cambridge.

She was on the board at Cambridge 105 radio for 2.5 years from 2019. She co-founded the CamCreatives meetup and set up sister group, Creative Ely, which ran for five years.

Sue has also raised funds for Motor Neurone Disease Association through various 10k running events, and Arthur Rank Hospice Charity when she ran the London Marathon in 2017.

Training

Sue leads our training division, specialising in writing for the web and social media, for clients including the University of Cambridge, Sony, Zeiss, Hodder & Stoughton and Government Digital Services. She is known for her plain-talking, fun approach!

She also hosts Sookio School, our suite of online courses in digital marketing hosted on Skillshare.

Education

Sue has a BA (Hons) in Communication Studies with Spanish from Anglia Ruskin University, and graduated from the University of Leicester’s School of Business Help to Grow: Management scheme.