We have the pleasure of working with many great clients, including Deloitte, IKEA, National Grid, Springer Nature, and SThree. Highlights include:- Providing strategic communications advice for, and coaching, a new CEO, helping them to cement their position and communicate their vision to the organisation. - Co-creating clear and compelling strategic narratives with C-suite executives, then devising and delivering the launch and rollout of these narratives into organisations, including set-piece interventions such as leadership conferences.- The creation and rollout of several organisation’s visions, ensuring that they are more than just ‘writing on the wall’, including working with the business to embed the values in the employee lifecycle.- Creating and delivering compelling change and communications strategies, preparing organisations for new ways of working, system implementations, office moves, and more.- Professionalising internal communications within multiple organisations, developing and establishing communication frameworks and strategies in support of business goals.The fun thing about what we do is all the other aspects we get involved in, above and beyond the initial brief. It’s not uncommon for us to also be the support for Heads and Directors of Communications, providing a valuable and impartial outside perspective.We also provide mentoring services to communication professionals from new graduates through to Directors, partly through our involvement with the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).

Setting a standard of excellence since 1970, the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is a vibrant global membership association with thousands of members from around the world. The UK & Ireland chapter of the IABC is focused on helping members to fulfil their career ambitions through better connection, inspiration, and development.

KPMG is a professional services firm, one of the 'Big Four', with over 12,000 colleagues working in the UK. Leading a team of two Internal Communications Managers, I specialised in people function communications and engagement to all colleagues in the UK.Highlights included:- Leading the initial communications to support our transformation to a more client-focused, solutions-led business.- Enhancing our strategy for communications to our People Leader community, ensuring they had the information they needed to do their jobs and advise their teams on key people matters.- Developing a coherent narrative to bring together engagement initiatives, our employee value proposition and operational HR communications.- Heading up the internal communications response to the EU referendum, ensuring colleagues understood our position as a firm as well as 'engaging the disengaged'.

Freshfields is a Magic Circle law firm with 5,000 employees globally. I was primarily responsible for strategic communications to our 2,000-strong London office and supported the global network as needed. I advised the senior leadership team and partnership to create and deliver strategic communications to all colleagues.Highlights included:- Coaching and advising the Chief Information Officer and his management team, improving the reputation of the function, as well as the quality and effectiveness of IT communication across the firm.- Leading communications for the global annual employee engagement survey, advising the Global HR Director.- Working alongside the team developing and implementing change communications for the redesign of our operating model, the largest change programme for over a decade.- Channel innovation, using measurement and feedback to reposition our weekly online newsletter to ensure engaging and business-relevant content.- Designing creative, copywriting and delivering our diversity brochure for a global audience, highlighting our work within the diversity arena.

Transport for London (TfL) is responsible for the day-to-day operation of London's public transport and road networks with 44,000 employees. For most of my time in role I worked in the Tube Lines communications team. Tube Lines was a subsidiary of TfL, responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly Underground lines. Tube Lines is now part of London Underground, which is part of TfL.I worked as part of a small, Melcrum Award-winning team designing and delivering creative corporate communications to an audience of around 2,500 people - mostly field-based colleagues. Highlights included:- Leading communications for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, providing strategic advice for the Olympic Steering Group and developing an integrated end-to-end 'Making History Happen' internal brand campaign, producing and delivering communications and measurable success following the Games.- Being the trusted deputy for the Head of Communications, working with them to develop and implement the corporate communications and engagement strategy.- Providing strategic consultancy, guidance, coaching and support for senior stakeholders, including the Chief Executive and executive team. This included ghost writing messages for the CEO, scripting and delivering video, presentations and other corporate material for the executive team.- Managing and innovating three critical communication channels: Weekly News and Weekend Works email newsletters and our team brief, Interchange.- Designing and delivering communication skills training for managers to ensure effective engagement with their teams.- Advising HR, creating compelling and meaningful communication regarding trades union issues, always aware of political sensitivities and ensuring that accurate company information was given to employees at the same time, or ahead of, the unions.

An international energy company and one of the UK's leading power and gas companies, at the time E.ON employed 18,000 people in the UK. This strategic role comprised communicating the employee experience to colleagues, and engaging them in the company's people and culture agenda.Highlights included:- Leading communications essential to the successful design, implementation and delivery of E.ON's first ever diversity survey (securing a 55% response rate) and key member of the Diversity Leadership Group. I led teams of 20+ colleagues, including the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) network. Project managing the successful delivery of E.ON's first ever sponsorship of Nottinghamshire LGBT Pride, I worked with the HR, marketing and press teams to ensure employer brand presence and press coverage. I also oversaw strategy and communications for all diversity networks.- Project planning and delivering creative end-to-end communications campaigns on a range of subjects, often with challenging or unpopular messages, including: safety, health and environment; the employee value proposition; apprentice and engineer recruitment; company policy promotion; promoting learning and development opportunities and the online learning system.

Responsible for delivering targeted communication and engagement, specifically within business services (shared services) and UK Centre (central functions, such as HR, legal, corporate responsibility and safety, health and environment).