Table Talk

"Pick an area that's either a hobby of yours or something you invest in yourself day-to-day, be that time or money," says Nat Cooper, freelance start-up consultant. "That's what's always worked for me. Thinking about products I really like, reaching out and seeing what the opportunity is." And it is an approach that has worked wonders for Nat. Her career has seen her work with a number of different start-ups within the food and drink industry, and for the past few years she has been able to go it alone as a consultant. She also does regular work as Head of OOH at the crisp-making company Simply Roasted. But, as we often find on the Career Conversations podcast series, her career path looked like it would go in a very different direction when she first started out. Find out more about the up-coming Food Matters Live careers event series "I was really interested in the property sector and ended up doing real estate management at university," she says. "I ended up trying to explore a couple of other indust