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On the Ninth Day of Christmas: Change

Today is all about change.  I am delighted to welcome the CEO of the Taylor Bennett Foundation, Sarah Stimson.  I’ve got to know Sarah over the last four or five years and when I...

On the Seventh day of Christmas – Charisma

Today, Rachel Royall, Director of Communications for NHS Digital writes about charisma;  Rachel and I first met at an event for aspirant NHS Directors of Nursing – and greeted each other with the words...

On the Sixth Day of Christmas: Courage

Anne-Marie and I met at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations North East AGM in 2015. She asked if I would be interested in setting up a Young Communicators’ Forum.  I said yes, and...

On the Fifth Day of Christmas: Credit

Alastair McCapra and I met through the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, he is CEO.  I enjoyed working alongside him enormously, when I was an elected board member and as President in 2015; when...

On the Fourth Day of Christmas: Choice

Julie Jupe and I met through the South West regional committee of the Chartered Institute of PUblic Relations.  We meet for dinner (not nearly often enough) with two other committee members and have formed...

On the Third Day of Christmas: Character

Jeremy Hamer and I first met a few years ago working on a large strategy project for a client.  I liked him immediately, I was not at all surprised to learn he was a...

On the Second Day of Christmas: Confidence

Valentina Kristensen and I first met on the stage of an awards do.  I was President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and Val had just won Young Communicator of the Year, I...

Fitness for business HERoes

Being named as one of the top female UK business leaders on the FT and HERoes 50 Female Champions of Women in Business List is a wonderful acknowledgement for the work I've done and...

Public Relations & Pay Equality

Research published today by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations is the first time my industry has gone behind the figures to find out what the drivers are for the embarrassing, unacceptable gender pay gap...

Opportunity and Authenticity

A few weeks ago I was invited to a very influential women’s networking group.  I had been asked by the Cabinet Office to talk, along with Catharine Seddon, about having a Non-Executive Directorship (NED)...

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