The Comms Chat

Ahead of International Women's Day this year, Director Nichole Culverwell caught up with Deloitte Guernsey's Jo Huxtable, Digital Greenhouse's Lucy Kirby, IoD Guernsey Branch Chair, Wendy Dorey and Principal of The Ladies' College, Daniele Harford-Fox to discuss this year's IWD theme - #EmbraceEquity

Junior Account Executive Chloe Price caught up with Kareena Hodgson of Leaders Consultancy to talk about all things comms and leadership and how this may differ when working with the third sector. 

Since passing his AMEC Evaluation and Measurement certificate, Black Vanilla's Chris Leaman spoke to course tutor, Thomas Stoeckle, about the history and future of measurement in PR in the latest episode of The Comms Chat. Thomas is a tutor for the Bournemouth University and the PR Academy, a Partner at Dot I/O Health and also hosts the SmallDataForum Podcast.

The pair also discusses the history of AVEs and top tips to help practitioners measure their campaigns. Listen to it below.

Committed to doing things the right way, Ben is a seasoned communications professional with a results-driven mindset. A creative and strategic thinker with 15 years' industry experience, working with household names across the technology, food and drink, healthcare and lifestyle sectors. A passionate content writer, Ben is a CIPR Accredited Practitioner, a Trustee for Wiltshire Youth for Christ and People against Poverty, and won the 2021 Gold CIPR Pride Award for 'Independent PR Practitioner of the Year'. 

In this episode, Nichole caught up with Ben about working with the third sector, and what it was like going freelance in the midst of a pandemic. 

Account Manager Chloe Chescoe spoke with two of Black Vanilla's latest recruits on their journey into the PR industry while facing the difficulties of the Covid19 pandemic.

We caught up with Ben Verinder about the CIPR #PRInAPandemic report which his company, Chalkstream, conducted the research for. 

Michael is a Director at Roxhill Media, the leading, real-time media intelligence tool for PR professionals. With over 20 years’ experience working within the communications industry, Michael has covered the whole comms spectrum, from agency to in-house roles, including a director position at Gorkana, where he headed up its corporate PR offering.

Michael made the move to Roxhill Media with Founder Alex Northcott in 2015. In addition to supporting the sales team, Michael hosts Roxhill’s popular business breakfasts giving key insights into the journalists and media trends that are setting the news agenda. 

Today we are speaking with Kyan Frith of CentricalCyber; a cyber risk consultancy aiming to help business leaders move beyond ‘cybersecurity equals IT’, gain the support of key stakeholders and manage risk in a holistic, company-wide manner.

We will be speaking about risk, reputation management and cyber security gaps in the Guernsey financial services industry.