Biographical note

Helen Stephens started her career in the NHS where she worked for 6 years before obtaining a Masters Degree in IT and Management and becoming a Management Consultant at Price Waterhouse specialising in Health Care Services and Computer Security. She joined Orange in 1996 as an IT Security specialist moving into several other departments during her time with the rapidly growing telecoms company. In 2003 she completed an MBA at Bath University and undertook addition management study at Kellogg University in Chicago in 2012. In 2008 she joined FROM YOU TO ME where her logical thinking and creative flair saw her quickly take on the design and production of books and journals. Helen is responsible for all the design and production aspects of the business. From signing new authors and illustrators, to coming up with ideas and new products for the team to bring to market and writing books. She works with creatives and printers from all over the world and has done bespoke books and journals for leading UK brands. She loves to see people try new things and will guide them to achieve their goals. Helen Stephens is proud mother of Míla and while trying to balance her own busy life with the pressures of being a new Mum she realised how much she didn't know! She had been successful in senior management positions but nothing prepared her for the management of a small baby. As she learnt how to manage and as friends made suggestions to her, she kept finding herself saying if only I had known that ... or if only someone had told me that earlier. This gave her the inspiration to create her first book aimed at other new Mums or Mums to be who needed that little bit of help. Helen has now written other books including My Wish For Christmas and Hopes & Wishes For You which are published by FORGET ME NOT BOOKS an imprint of FROM YOU TO ME and a number of journals Bump To Birthday, The Story of Us, This Is Me and Wonderful Days which are published by JOURNALS OF A LIFETIME an imprint of FROM YOU TO ME. In 2014 Helen was awarded the Gold Medal at the global IPPY Awards for her unique journal Bump To Birthday which has been a global success and is available in many languages. She has recently started writing children’s picture books and working with third parties to bring gorgeous baby packages to new parents. In 2007 she cycled, on a mountain bike, from London to Paris to raise much needed funds for Action Medical Research. Helen has chaired her Village Hall Committee, the PTA at the local primary school and is currently the Secretary at the town’s Swimming Club.