Meet the Founder

Natalie Montagnani
Founder of IGNITE

Natalie Montagnani is a strategist, leadership coach and brand and marketing expert with over 25 years of experience supporting businesses to grow — and women to rise.

She began her career managing multi-million-pound marketing budgets for global brands, leading high-profile launches and working with celebrity talent across EMEA. But in 2005, driven by a desire for freedom, flexibility and more purpose-led work, she left corporate life to found her own successful marketing agency.

Over nearly two decades, Natalie built a business that served hundreds of SMEs and supported multi-million-pound growth. Along the way, she trained as an NLP Practitioner, became a passionate advocate for mindset and personal development, and dedicated time to volunteering with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.

After becoming a mother, Natalie felt the call to do something bigger — to close her agency and pivot fully into supporting women in business. She founded IGNITE to bring together her strategic expertise, her coaching ability, and her mission to create spaces where women can lead powerfully, grow sustainably, and stop doing it all alone.

Today, she works with female founders, senior leaders and high-potential women across multiple industries — helping them build confident leadership, elevate their visibility, and drive real results with soul and strategy.