I have the privilege of chairing the Taylor Bennett Foundation (TBF), a charity founded some ten years ago by the inspirational Heather McGregor, then MD of Taylor Bennett the communications recruitment agency. Heather was...
Over the last few months I have made some significant decisions. All of these are against the back drop of a day job of running a small agency that has won more than ten...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I spend a lot of time travelling, to London, Manchester, Liverpool, all over the country visiting clients, working with them and fulfilling my Health and Safety Executive role. Today I need to travel to...
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...
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...
