The Comms Chat

In this episode we are joined by Rob Thurner, digital strategist and executive education facilitator specialising in Digital Transformation.  

Rob is the CEO of Burn the Sky, a platform offering digital transformation training to a network of digital experts, learning design and delivery specialists, partners, and alumni from around the world. He runs digital training courses for clients like Google, American Express and HSBC.  

Along with his training business, Rob has also written three best practice books, which you can find below.

> Mobile Marketing Best Practice Guide, for Econsultancy
> Mobile Marketing Strategy Guide, for Smart Insights
> 10 Key Decisions for mCommerce Success, for a retail client

After a short break, we are back… and today we are talking to Ben Verinder. Ben is a founding-chartered PR practitioner, a lead-chartered status assessor and market and reputation research and consultancy director of Chalkstream Limited. Chalkstream is a specialist consultancy leading in reputation and comms research, public relations and communications training, strategic communications and strategic management.

Ben is a regular speaker and lecturer on reputation management and measurement, public relations and research. He has contributed to several PR books, including the author of the CIPR AI and Data Ethics skills guide.

Dr Heather Yaxley has over two decades’ experience in vocational education. She has lectured in PR, is a course leader for the CIPR as well as a published author. 

Heather is an expert in strategic public relations, management capabilities, sustainable careers and professional reflective practice. She actively researches, writes, teaches and works with clients to support personal development. 

 She is also an active blogger and is one of the co-editors of PR Conversations - an international, well-respected PR blog.

Kerry Sheehan has extensive experience in the world of PR, data and artificial intelligence. She has been a leading industry voice on how artificial intelligence and data is used in the PR industry, the pitfalls and opportunities it brings, and how we need to navigate the ethics of communicating in our ever-changing world.

Phil is the founder of Leaders Consultancy. He works closely with clients on focussed projects and long-term retainers to raise leadership standards. He is a popular and inspiring educator and coach who, with the insights gained from psychometrics, is able to accurately detect the strengths and weaknesses in leadership teams and boards. He  has significant expertise in sophisticated psychometrics and in the application of human data for individual, team and organisational success. 

www.leadersconsultancy.co.uk

Advita Patel is a Board Director for CIPR U.K, founder of Comms Rebel and co-founder of A Leader Like Me. She has worked within the communications industry for almost 15 years, she’s a chartered PR practitioner and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. In 2018, Advita was named by the Northern Power Women movement as one of their future leaders, an accolade given to only 50 women every year and most recently she was named on the Northern Asian top 100 Power list and on the top 101 list for Inspiring Workplaces as one of the global influencers for employee experience. 

You can find the link to the next A Leader Like Me conference, Diversity in Action, below.

https://aleaderlikeme.com/conferences/div-in-action-conference/

Our very first Comms Chat guest is broadcast reporter, Charlie Frost. Charlie’s career has taken her from regional radio to national television news, via a stint in the Channel Islands. She’s experienced the world of TV on both sides of the camera and she is now reporting for ITV in East Anglia.