Nadine Taylor is a campaign director, consultant, and creative strategist whose career spans design, advocacy, and social reform.

Before entering the world of family law campaigning, Nadine built a career as a creative consultant leading innovative projects in product development, packaging design, advertising, and retail promotion for major international food brands and world-renowned department stores. Later, as Co-Director of Agitator, her entrepreneurial flair helped launch “Breast Milk Ice Cream”, and a commercial brand “The Licktators”, a bold ice cream brand created in partnership with Yeo Valley and sold through Ocado.

Known for provocative campaigns and inventive PR stunts, Nadine’s work consistently achieved global reach and generated millions of pounds’ worth of publicity on modest budgets.

In 2002, Nadine’s life had changed dramatically, though, when she entered the UK family court system, beginning a ten-year battle to keep her daughter, who turned 26 this month.

During this time, a friend suggested she contact Fathers4Justice (F4J) after recognising similarities between Nadine’s experiences and the campaign objectives of the controversial group.

Accompanied by her father for moral support, Nadine attended a Fathers4Justice meeting where she first met the organisation’s founder, Matt O’Connor. Unbeknown to her, undercover reporters were present at the meeting, and Matt, having been warned about journalists attending, initially suspected Nadine and her father were part of the media. Months later, the ITV undercover documentary aired, featuring footage from that very meeting.

Nadine and Matt quickly discovered a shared passion for family justice reform, as well as common ground in their creative backgrounds. Their collaboration soon evolved into both a professional and personal partnership. Together they worked on Fathers4Justice, later had a son, Archie, and eventually married.

As Campaign Director for Fathers4Justice (F4J), Nadine brought her strategic and creative expertise to some of the organisation’s most high-profile campaigns. She coordinated media, political, police, and public relations activity that brought international attention to fathers’ rights and family justice reform, helping spark national debate and giving countless parents a voice.

As a survivor of domestic abuse, who endured more than a decade within the family court system, Nadine brought rare insight into the emotional and practical challenges faced by families in crisis, and presented an unexpected twist for journalists expecting a male spokesperson. She was also directly involved in several major protests. On 20 May 2006, during the Fathers4Justice National Lottery protest, Nadine and five other activists stormed the stage of the BBC’s prime-time Saturday night Lottery show, taking the programme off air and generating headlines across the country.

Following her divorce from Matt O’Connor in 2019, Nadine stepped back from F4J and founded her own professional McKenzie Friend service, The Custody Coach. Through this work, she provides specialist support and advocacy for both fathers and mothers navigating the family court process, and support after the court process ends.

Nadine and Matt remain on excellent terms as co-parents to Archie, now 20, and their wider family, and Nadine continues to support Fathers4Justice events.

For more than two decades, Nadine Taylor has been a passionate and outspoken advocate for fathers’, men’s, and boys’ rights, advising businesses, campaign groups, politicians, and activists on strategy and communications, in the UK, Ireland, Australia and the US.

Her commitment to equality and social reform is rooted in a belief that true equality benefits both men and women, and that progress for one should never come at the expense of the other.

This passion also reflects a remarkable family legacy: Nadine is a distant cousin of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the pioneering leader of the American women’s rights movement whose famous Seneca Falls Convention speech led to her advocating for divorce law reform. Stanton’s daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, was also a prominent suffragette in both the United States and the United Kingdom, working alongside Emmeline Pankhurst.

For Nadine, campaigning for equal rights has come full circle.