This content is for Members only
Denise O’Leary is the founder of Purpol Marketing, which she set-up after earning a first class honours BA in Business Administration and her Masters degree in Marketing. Denise used her academic achievements to become a UK marketing expert, and her marketing business Purpol Marketing focuses on the construction industry.
As a woman in business, Denise is well known, this is heavily due to her best-selling book ‘WINNER – How to win Business Awards,’ and many of the awards she has won herself. Denise has won 13 international Stevie Awards for marketing and entrepreneurship from 2021-2019, and her company was voted ‘World’s Favourite Marketing Agency’ in 2020. Last year Denise was also named among the Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs by F:Entrepreneur. Most excitingly, this year, Denise has been awarded an MBE for services to the construction sector in the New Year’s Honours List. Denise received the honour for the work she has done to demystify the world of construction and marketing. It is a sector which is heavily male-dominated and where the value of marketing is often underestimated. Denise is also an Ambassador for ‘Women in Construction.’
Denise is also passionate about recruiting new young people into construction marketing, she took the lead in embracing the government’s Kickstart Scheme, where she was the first business owner in the UK to take on 50 Kickstarters at once. Since then, she has supported 166 young people take the first steps in their careers. Denise is a very influential woman in business.
