What I Do
Public Relations
- Experience of formulating public relations plans.
- Experience of reacting to press enquiries and selling stories to the media.
- Experience of working with radio, television, new media and written press.
- Crisis communications experience.
- Experience writing press releases, media statements etc.
Senior Executive Communications
- Experience of speech writing for senior level executives.
- Experience of press interview management for senior executives, including the creation of briefing books
Digital Communications
- Experience of working on and managing the re-design of corporate websites.
- Creation of content for both.
- Highly experienced user of Content Management Systems.
- Worked as an editor on corporate websites.
- Experience of training others to use corporate Content Management Systems.
Stakeholder Management & Internal Communications
- Management of communications with internal and external interest groups.
- Experience of working directly with staff at all levels, including direct reports into senior management at local, regional and international level.
- Experience of creating staff surveys and analysing results.
- Experience of writing copy for the APAC intranet site of a large multinational.
- I was part of an internal team at Hill and Knowlton with a remit to drive employee engagement activities in the local Hong Kong office.
Writing
- Experienced writer (and editor) with a work portfolio across various industries (including infrastructure), and many years’ spent with major international public relations agencies (Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Ogilvy – WPP).
- Executive speeches, press releases, reports, presentations, internet copy, intranet copy, corporate brochures, annual reports, SEO relevant copy for websites, social media copy.
- Project management of corporate publications through whole production process from copy writing to final sign off.
- Creation of CSR based promotional literature for multi-national companies.