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Client names stay confidential. The thinking, the approach and the outcomes do not. Each case represents a real brief, a structured response and a measurable result.

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Crisis Communications · Reputation

Building Crisis Communications Capability from the Ground Up

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The Challenge

An organisation faced a sudden and significant public pressure moment. Stakeholder complaints were escalating, media enquiries were arriving without a process to handle them, and there was no internal framework for managing the situation. No approved language. No escalation process. No clarity on who communicated what, to whom, and when.

The need was immediate: move from unstructured to ready.

The Work Tiered Risk Plan

Mapping active and potential risk scenarios across all stakeholder groups, covering probability, severity and communications impact for each.

Master Narrative

Establishing the organisation's core position and the unified story all communications would flow from, regardless of channel or audience.

Holding Statements

A suite of approved responses covering the most likely inbound scenarios across media, customer, social and executive channels, ready for immediate use.

Stakeholder Map

Identifying every affected audience, their communication needs, their information priorities and their influence on how the situation would develop.

Escalation Procedure

Decision trees, approval chains and response timelines for each risk tier, so the team knew exactly how to move from an alert to a coordinated response.

Community Management Guide

Pre-approved response language and escalation guidance for social and digital channels, ensuring consistency under pressure.

The Outcome

The organisation moved from having no crisis communications capability to a structured, activation-ready framework. Leadership had clear lines of authority, consistent approved language and a decision-making process that removed the paralysis that characterises unmanaged pressure moments. The team stopped reacting and started responding.

02
Brand Strategy · Integrated Communications

Managing a Major Brand Transition Across a National Network

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The Challenge

A national organisation undergoing a full ownership transition needed to move away from an established brand identity and relaunch under an entirely new name and positioning. This was not a logo change. It was a fundamental repositioning: a new story, a new value proposition and a new relationship with a customer base that had known the previous brand for years, rolled out simultaneously across an entire national network.

The organisation needed integrated brand strategy, a communications architecture and a rollout plan that held together across every location, channel and customer touchpoint.

The Work Brand Positioning

Defining the new market position, core promise and key differentiators that would distinguish the brand in a competitive sector and give staff a single story to stand behind.

Messaging Framework

Built for multiple audiences including customers, staff, suppliers and media, with a consistent brand voice that held across every channel and every interaction.

Integrated Communications Strategy

Covering in-store, digital, social media and media relations, ensuring every channel told the same story in the same voice at the same moment.

Channel Content Planning

Specific content plans to support the launch period across every touchpoint and sustain momentum in the months that followed.

Rollout Oversight

Senior communications oversight during the rollout period to manage consistency across all locations and address deviations before they became brand problems.

The Outcome

The brand launched across the national network with a coherent identity, consistent messaging and strong coverage in the opening period. Internal alignment was achieved before the public launch. Staff were telling the same story customers were seeing in store and online. The new positioning gave the brand a clear basis for long term differentiation in a highly competitive sector.

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Integrated Communications · Content Strategy

Building an Integrated Communications System That Actually Connected

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The Challenge

A growing organisation had a strong product and a compelling story, but no integrated communications framework to tell it. Multiple audiences existed simultaneously, each being communicated with reactively and inconsistently. There was no unifying brand voice, no editorial rhythm and no content system that gave the team a clear, repeatable process to work from.

The organisation was underselling itself at every touchpoint.

The Work Audience Mapping

Defining every stakeholder group, their communication priorities, their information needs and the channels that best reached them.

Integrated Communications Plan

Structured content pillars, a sustainable editorial rhythm and clear ownership across all channels built into a single operating framework.

Content Strategy

Built around storytelling that turned the organisation's genuine character and vision into content that created emotional connection, not just information transfer.

Newsletter Programme

Built as a professional publication covering leadership messaging, operational updates and commercial content in a single coherent format.

Brand Voice Guidelines

Ensuring every piece of external communication sounded like the same organisation, regardless of who created it or which channel it appeared on.

The Outcome

The organisation moved from reactive, fragmented output to a structured and repeatable communications system. The newsletter created a direct line between leadership and key audiences where none had previously existed. The content strategy gave the team a clear, confident brief to work from. The gap between the quality of the product and the quality of the communications closed.

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PR Strategy · Media Relations · Reputation

Expanding International Media Presence for a Growing Financial Services Group

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The Challenge

A financial services group with strong regional presence was expanding its footprint into new markets and needed its communications strategy to match. The international financial, investment and business media that its investors, partners and target audiences were reading required a more structured and proactive approach to earned coverage.

The brief was to build a targeted international PR strategy: one that placed the right stories in the right publications for the right reasons, and that positioned the organisation's leadership as credible voices in the markets that mattered.

The Work Earned Media Audit

Identifying where the brand was and was not represented, and which publications and platforms the target audience was actually consuming.

Narrative Development

Translating the organisation's business story into angles with genuine news value for financial and business journalists.

Targeted Media Outreach

Outreach to regional and international financial, business and investment publications with pitch angles tailored per publication and journalist.

Digital PR and Link Building

A sustained programme to build online authority alongside print and digital coverage, improving search visibility for the organisation's key terms.

Executive Positioning

Supporting leadership spokespeople with briefing notes, media training guidance and commentary placement in relevant sector media.

The Outcome

The organisation achieved measurable growth in share of voice across its target media landscape. Placements were secured in regional and international business and financial publications. Executive commentary appeared in publications the organisation had not previously accessed. The digital authority work produced a sustained improvement in online visibility and search presence. Coverage became proactive rather than reactive.

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Travel PR · Content Strategy · Digital Authority

Taking a Travel and Destination Brand to International Markets

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The Challenge

A travel and destination operator with a world class product and a strong guest experience was not reaching the international audiences that drive premium bookings. It was dependent on third party platforms for discovery, underrepresented in the travel media its target guests were reading, and producing content that told a fraction of the story the brand deserved.

Key source markets were either unaware of the brand or encountering it only through booking platforms. No direct relationship, reduced margin and no brand control.

The Work Source Market Strategy

A full analysis across priority markets profiling booking behaviour, travel motivations, channel preferences and media consumption for each segment.

International Travel PR and Media Pitching

Targeted outreach to international travel, lifestyle and luxury media publications with genuine reach into source markets. Story pitches built around the brand's real stories: the landscape, the people, the experience, the conservation work.

Link Building and Content Placement

A sustained programme of international outreach and content placement to build the brand's digital authority and earn quality backlinks from travel publications, destination guides and editorial sites.

Brand Storytelling and Content Strategy

A content strategy built around the brand's genuine character: the landscapes, the culture, the guests, the staff, the moments that make the experience memorable. Designed to create emotional connection across the full journey from discovery through to advocacy.

Platform Optimisation

An audit of the brand's presence across international booking platforms including Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor, with optimisation guidance to improve search positioning and conversion.

The Outcome

The brand built an international digital presence that worked on its own terms. Earned coverage in international travel media gave it visibility in publications where no amount of media spend would guarantee placement. The link building programme extended its organic search authority in source markets, improving discoverability for travellers searching for exactly what it offered. The content strategy gave the brand a distinct, consistent voice across every international touchpoint.

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Executive Positioning · Thought Leadership · Reputation

Building Executive Presence and Thought Leadership for a Senior Leader

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The Challenge

A senior executive with genuine expertise and real authority in their field had no meaningful external presence. The business was visible. The leader was not. In an environment where stakeholders, investors, talent and clients increasingly make decisions based on who is leading an organisation, that gap had a cost. It created a distance between the organisation's market position and the perceived authority of its leadership.

The Work Positioning Strategy

Defining the executive's distinct point of view, the topics they had the depth to own, and the narrative thread that would make their voice coherent and consistent across every platform and format.

Platform and Channel Selection

An audit of where the target audiences were spending their attention. LinkedIn as the primary owned platform. Sector media for earned authority. Speaking engagements for direct credibility. Each channel assigned a clear role in the overall programme.

Content Strategy and Production Support

A sustained content programme: longer articles, short commentary, reactive opinion on industry developments. Written in the executive's voice, designed to start conversations rather than broadcast announcements.

Media Positioning and Commentary Placement

Targeted pitching of the executive as a commentator and expert source to relevant sector media and business publications, with briefing notes prepared in advance and approved commentary frameworks.

Internal Leadership Communications

A parallel internal communications strand using the same narrative foundation, ensuring staff experienced the same leadership voice internally that external audiences were seeing.

The Outcome

The executive moved from invisible to recognised, not through a media blitz but through consistent, credible presence over time. Their audience grew with engaged, relevant followers. Media started approaching them for commentary. Speaking invitations followed coverage. Internally, staff reported a clearer sense of where the organisation was heading and why. The strategy gave them a framework they could operate naturally within, and that sustainable authenticity is what makes thought leadership actually land.

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