A Communications Director with over 20 years experience, I am currently the Communications Director at St Andrew's Healthcare, the UK largest charity providing specialist mental healthcare, having previously worked for the BGL Group, Accenture, MCA and Diageo. In all of these companies I've been lucky to work with some great people in a number of different countries around the world. During this time I've had a lot of fun improving employee engagement scores (from 58% to 79% at BGL), working with Governments to improve tax rates or structures (Vietnam and Thailand) and implementing corporate social responsibility programmes that make a real difference and generate a sense of employee pride. I'm now bringing my experiences to a new sector for me, healthcare, and seeing how I can best support the Charity in achieving its goals.No matter which country or sector it has been, the overall goal has always been the same - to engage and motivate people so that we can win. The ongoing challenge is to be credible - that means being clear about our purpose, the key messages we need to convey and the channels that will engage whoever I'm communicating with. It's a challenge I continue to enjoy and, with digital communications becoming ever more sophisticated and prominent, one that keeps me motivated and on my toes!
Listed skills include Internal Communications, Strategy, Change Management, Corporate Communications, and 30 others.