Linda Coogan Byrne

Linda Coogan Byrne is a Music Industry Consultant with 20+ years of experience in the international and domestic music industry and is CEO of Award-Winning PR & Marketing Company Good Seed PR. She is also an activist and campaigner for gender diversity and equality and is managing director of Culture Change company Why Not Her?.

Hailed as the woman who has retuned Irish and UK radio airplay towards gender parity, her Gender Disparity Data Reports focusing on the lack of diversity and gender parity across Radio in the UK and Ireland, has become one of the biggest equality movements in the music industry and has garnered over 200 million+ in audience reach, leading the way for the music industry’s #WhyNotHer movement.

Linda was named as one of the Top 100 most influential women in Ireland (in 2021) who are choosing to challenge perceptions to change the world. Linda’s work has been widely praised and featured across notable outlets such as The Guardian, Sunday Times, Clash, BBC, RTE, The Independent and many more. They have been a speaker/lecturer/panellist at Hotpress MixSix, Women’sWork, OutPut, MUTEK Barcelona, Belfast Metropolitan College, Trinity College, IMPALA, Dublin City University, and BBC The Biggest Weekend Festival to name a few.