Tag: PR

Ahead of IWD 2022

In my 20s, I planned a big party for my 30s in Cornwall.  It was months after my beloved grandmother died and it was a mixed experience. The party was held in what is...

Taylor Bennett Foundation: get involved, get supporting

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...

Investing in yourself, others and the future.  Part one

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...

Spring Forward: The road to success…is a bumpy one?

Spring Forward will be held in Bristol on May 24th and one of our two panels is about the road to success.  How have the issues of culture, confidence and choice affected four women’s...

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 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 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 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...

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