Tina Bettison is the founder and leading lady in the TLB Media team. Tina's first experiences of PR were in the press box at Headingley cricket ground, as a student, pulling pints and learning what sports journalism was all about. 

She then followed a career in magazine publishing, graduating from weekly business to business magazines at Emap to contract magazines at Forward Publishing. Over her publishing career Tina has managed every stage of the publishing process from initial idea to printed matter.

From Forward, Tina took the leap into self employment and an interesting journey of self development. She became a Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis and also studied sports psychology.  She put all this to good use in market research/consumer insight work, specialist copywriting and developing creative and marketing strategies.

Tina has always had a love of horses and an particular interest in the horse/human relationship. She has self-published coaching manual for horse riders (The Fizz Kit) and became a mainstream published author following a talk she gave at Your Horse Live in 2004. She now has three books of horsy humour published by Hodder and Stoughton (see www.tinabettison.com for more details).

Tina contributes regularly to the horsy magazines and is on their panel of experts. She gives talks at various events: horsy, business, networking, and after-dinner speeches. She is a guest presenter for BBC Radio Leicester on Tony Wadsworth's show and co-presenter of the Saturday morning Weekend Break show on Boundary Sound.

See our Black Book for some of the associates that contribute to the TLB Media team.