Kate Reardon Keynote Speaker

Editor-in-Chief of The Times Luxury digital & LUXX Magazine
Editor of Tatler (2011-2017)
Founder of Women's Social Media Network, TopTips.com

Kate Reardon's Biography

As Editor-in-Chief of The Times Luxury digital & LUXX Magazine since 2018, Kate Reardon’s unparalleled insight into the lives and desires of her readers makes her one of the most exciting and effective champions of luxury publishing in the world. She has been shortlisted for the British Society of Magazine Editors’ editor of the year award five times and won in 2020. Kate began her career as a 19-year-old fashion assistant American Vogue, as at 21 she was made the Fashion Director of Tatler – the youngest ever at Condé Nast.

Kate remained at Tatler for seven years before becoming a founding advisory board member of Net-a-Porter.com. She wrote three columns for The Times, who named her one of Britain’s best writers and spent a decade as a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. In 2007 Kate founded the women’s social media network, TopTips.com. the business, which was well ahead of hits time with a user-generated content model, was a multi-platform success, generating a column in the Daily Mail, a weekly slot of ITV breakfast television and two bestselling books.

In 2011 Kate Reardon returned to Tatler Editor and remained there until December 2017. She oversaw a period of great success for the magazine, leading to a 2014 BBC2 3-part documentary, Posh People, Inside Tatler, featuring Kate and other staff members. This has been viewed by an audience of more than six million.

How to build high-performance cultures through high-quality behaviour

Luxury trends and the future of premium consumer culture

Editorial leadership and building high-performing creative teams

Brand storytelling, content strategy, and cultural relevance

She has shaped luxury media at the highest level, leading Tatler as Editor from 2011 to 2017 and now serving as Editor-in-Chief of The Times Luxury digital & LUXX Magazine
She brings rare insight into high-value audiences and cultural influence, built from a career spanning American Vogue, Condé Nast and a decade as a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair.
She translates editorial instinct into strategic lessons on brand, storytelling and relevance, drawing on experience as a founding advisory board member of Net-a-Porter.com.
She offers founder-level perspective on digital community and content models, having created the women’s social media network TopTips.com and scaled it into a multi-platform success across print, TV and books.

Articles, Media & Podcasts

'Claudia Winkleman was my PA'- my life as a glossy mag editor

The Times

Books by Kate Reardon

Top Tips for Girls: Real advice from real women for real life

Top Tips For Life

Your Mother Was Right: All the Great Advice You Tried to Forget

Comments & Testimonials

"As someone who has been obsessed with the creative process his entire adult life, I found Kate's presentation at Wilton Park's forum in Los Angeles to be not only compelling, but fun as well. Which was, of course, the whole point: creativity starves unless it's richly endowed with the frivolity and warmth required to unlock the kind of risk-taking that yields truly new ideas. Kate's brilliant articulation of this important principle to some of the most creative minds on the planet was enthusiastically received.”

Sandy Winnefeld US Admiral & ex-Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff