Trend Leader: Perspectives on Colour

Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: TrendBible HQ, 56 Leazes Park Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4PG

Join Colour Collective UK for an inspiring lunchtime talk and Q&A with Joanna Feeley, founder of TrendBible and author of Trend Leader: How to Spot and Back Winning Ideas, Accelerate Your Career and Create a Better Future (now available for purchase here).

In this session, Joanna will shine a light on colour as a trend, exploring how colour forecasts shape the way we live, design, and think about the future. This event is open to the public and designed to be accessible, inclusive, and engaging for anyone curious about the power of colour in society, culture, and business.

Trend Leader is Joanna’s first book, teaching companies how to understand and use trends to anticipate what the future consumer will need, value and crave. Drawing on over 25 years in the industry, Joanna shares her methodology for spotting and backing winning ideas and spotlights how great trend leaders use them to create meaningful change.

Joanna Feeley is the founder and CEO of TrendBible, a futures agency forecasting the future of life at home. She has advised retailers, brands, charities, investors, and governments worldwide on anticipating change and shaping preferred futures.

Her insights have been featured in The Independent, Financial Times, Retail Week, Marketing Week, and Entrepreneur Magazine. She has been recognised as one of IPPR’s “new generation of female entrepreneurs,” awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by the Entrepreneur’s Forum, Female Entrepreneur of the Year (Susan Dobson Award, 2017), and Creative Entrepreneur of the Year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards (2022).

This is a free event, although donations to CCUK are welcome, but places are limited. Please register in advance to secure your spot.

Host or Publisher Northumbria Postgraduate Researchers