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On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: Community

Today’s blog is by me, after eleven days of guest blogs, I want to take the opportunity to round off the twelve days of Christmas by talking about community. Community can describe a locality...

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas: Compassion

Today our blog is written by someone who gave me such a lot of support when I joined NHS communications, some ten years ago.  The Foundation Trust Network, as it was then (now NHS...

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 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 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...

New Year: 13 Thoughts from the Last Nine

So I start 2017 without my Chartered Institute of Public Relations board and council responsibilities, after four and nine year’s service, respectively, it was the right time to move on and try other things....

Shining a light

I am 44. I have sat, in total, on four boards in my volunteering life (including the largest primary school in Bristol, an international development agency and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations...

Supporting diversity in PR

Last year, I was President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, which comes with manifold responsibilities.  But was also an opportunity to highlight key issues for the industry – and the Institute.  In...

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