For the last few months, I have been volunteering some of my time, along with Dan Gerrella and Claire Spencer, consultant to the CPNI to write new guidance for communications professionals, published today by...
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...
Well there is a heading I never thought I would write. We are currently travelling quite a lot as a team for work, with clients in Europe, Leeds, Portsmouth, London, Cheltenham, Cardiff, Hamble, Cornwall...
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...
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...
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...
So hello from a mild Bristol on Christmas Eve. I started this Christmas Eve like no other – leading a social run for This Mum Runs, at the speed of chat, for 11 women...
It’s a typical start to the school holidays here in Bristol, slightly damp and overcast. It is the perfect weather for a run the dampness in the air though makes it easier to breathe,...
