Carole was for many years the producer of BBC Radio 4’s current affairs discussion programme Any Questions?, and it was there that she learned the art of networking - putting people together to their mutual advantage.

Since leaving the BBC, Carole has worked as a freelance journalist and broadcaster and as a media consultant to chairmen and chief executives of major British companies.

In April 2007, Carole became Managing Director of YouGovStone Ltd, a joint venture with YouGov plc. There she established a think tank - a worldwide panel of over 5,000 people who were leaders in their field.

Carole is now Chair of the External Advisory Board of the YouGov Centre, Cambridge.

Carole is a patron of the mental health charity SANE and of TOP UK, for people suffering from any kind of phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder. She is a former governor of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and a trustee of the Global Foundation to Eliminate Domestic Violence (EDV).

In June 2014, Carole was made a Senior Fellow of Regent's University London.

Carole is a founding director of The Hippocratic Post, the first global blogging site for medics and other health professionals.

In June 2015, Carole was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to market research and charity.