Mary Jo is an adviser on brands and reputation. She was the chief reputation officer of several major multinational corporations, including Royal Dutch Shell, HSBC Holdings and Lehman Brothers. She has also been a senior adviser to two US Presidents.
She is a UK-US Fulbright Commissioner; a non-executive director of the American Council on German and the Benjamin Franklin House; trustee of the Sir Heinz Koeppler Trust, the Educational Trust for Russia and the Reform Club Conservation Charitable Trust; a member of the Wilton Park Advisory Council; and a visiting fellow of the University of Leeds Business School.