Matthew Knight
Founder & Chief Freelance Officer at Freelancer Magazine
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Knight is a founder and independent strategist with 16 years’ experience shaping strategy, innovation and freelancer wellbeing across agencies, scaleups and global brands. He leads Leapers Co. and Outside Perspective, organisations that combine research, community-building and employer collaboration to improve mental health and working practices for freelancers—efforts that have reached over 300,000 people. Formerly Head of Strategy & Innovation at Carat UK and founder of multiple creative agencies, he blends hands-on product and creative leadership with systems thinking for clients from LEGO and adidas to Morgan Stanley and Klarna. Matthew is a visible advocate for the self-employed, serving on Mind’s Mental Health at Work Leadership Council and writing regularly about wellbeing in freelance life. He’s as comfortable designing culture change programmes and strategic roadmaps as he is building curated communities and zero-commission hiring networks. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs academic grounding in hypermedia with a long track record of turning complex organisational challenges into practical, human-centred action.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Hypermedia Communication, Master's degree, Hypermedia Communication at University of WestminsterBA, Multimedia Communication with Interactive Media, BA, Multimedia Communication with Interactive Media at University of Wolverhampton
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Github Skills (9)
wordpress6
twitter6
task-parallel-library6
javascript6
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internationalization6
php6
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
childsi/buyabrick
Oct 2009 - Feb 2012
Contributions:32 commits in 2 years 4 months
webponce/mkbot
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
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