Nerissa Golden is an author, entrepreneur and business strategist whose work explores courage, leadership and the responsibility of turning ideas into ventures that create lasting impact.

Over more than 30 years, she has built businesses, media platforms and educational ventures, advised organisations, and led national communications initiatives across the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. Her experience spans entrepreneurship, financial services, government, tourism, media, education, technology and the creative industries.

Today, she is the founder of Rebel Rock Media Ltd., a UK-based strategic advisory company helping founders and organisations strengthen the structures, systems and strategy needed to grow, reduce founder dependency and build ventures that can outlast them.

Golden’s perspective is shaped not only by advising organisations, but by building her own.

She launched her first communications and public relations company in 1997 and later founded Goldenmedia, a communications and digital strategy agency that operated for more than two decades. Through the agency, she developed and led strategic communications initiatives for governments, financial institutions, regional organisations and businesses, while supporting entrepreneurs and creatives to strengthen their brands and reach wider markets.

She has also led and facilitated entrepreneurship and business development programmes funded by organisations including the World Bank Group, European Union, Caribbean Development Bank, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and Caribbean governments.

In 2006, Golden founded Victory Christian Academy in St. Maarten, a K-12 alternative learning school serving children who needed a more personalised approach to education. The school operated until 2017, when it closed following the impact of Hurricane Irma.

In 2014, she founded Discover Montserrat, which has developed into one of Montserrat’s most established digital platforms for news, culture and community storytelling. Its growing archive also preserves significant elements of the island’s contemporary history and cultural life for Montserratians at home and across the diaspora.

Golden has held senior leadership positions in both government and the cultural sector. She served as the first Director of Information and Communications for the Government of Montserrat, with responsibility for national communications during periods of volcanic crisis and recovery, and later served as Executive Director of the Montserrat Arts Council.

Her work has also contributed to the development of Montserrat’s entrepreneurial, tourism, cultural and digital ecosystems, including as a founding member of the National ICT Council and through national initiatives focused on telecommunications infrastructure, small business development and tourism.

Underlying this varied career is a consistent interest in how people turn dreams and visions into meaningful work.

Golden grew up moving between Caribbean islands as the daughter of a preacher. In small churches with limited resources, she learned early to write plays, organise programmes, choreograph performances and find creative ways to bring ideas to life. Those experiences shaped a philosophy that still influences her work today: resourcefulness matters, ideas must eventually become action, and what we build should create opportunities beyond ourselves.

Writing and teaching remain central to that work. Golden writes fiction and non-fiction exploring faith, identity, resilience, leadership and the choices that shape our lives. She is the author of Live Fearless: A Christian Entrepreneur’s Guide to Life and Business and host of the Fearless One with Nerissa Golden podcast, where she explores how identity, faith and courageous thinking influence the way we live and lead.

She is a mother of four and continues to write, teach, advise and build at the intersection of entrepreneurship, leadership, culture and legacy.