10 OCT - 14 OCT

Get ready for CommsHero Week 2022, bringing you a virtual week-long event of 50 LIVE sessions all available on demand for a year and the chance to network with other fellow CommsHeroes. Our speaker line-up is EPIC this year with over 70 speakers from across different industries, sessions will cover topics from Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to Crisis Comms, ESG, Sustainability and much more!

And of course, every ticket holder will receive an EXCLUSIVE limited edition #CommsHero SWAG pack including your very own CommsHero t-shirt and personalised notebook.

To get a flavour of what’s to come, check out some sessions from CommsHero Week 2021 CLICK HERE.

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SPEAKERS

Abigail Dixon

Author and Podcast Host The whole Marketer and Director and Founder Labyrinth Marketing

Advita Patel

Founder of CommsRebel

Amanda Coleman

Crisis comms consultant, Author & Founder of Amanda Coleman Comms Ltd.

Amy Nettleton

Assistant Development Director – Sales and Marketing

Andy Barr

Founder of 10 Yetis

Antony Tiernan

Director of Communications and Engagement at the London Ambulance Service

Asif Choudry

Sales & Marketing Director with resource

Caroline Cubbon-King

Comms Consultant at All Things IC

Carrie-Ann Wade

Communications director, founder of Cat’s Pajamas Communications Ltd.

Cath Baxter

Voice and Public Speaking Expert / Speaker / Previously Head of Voice at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

Claire Riley

Executive Director of Corporate Governance, Communications and Involvement, North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board

Dan Holden

Comms Consultant at All Things IC

Darain Faraz

Co-Founder of People Like Us People Like Us (plu.org.uk) and is a seasoned Marcomms leader

Dennis Campbell

Health Policy Editor, The Guardian and The Observer

Ed Thomas

Group Head of Marketing and Communications, the Wrekin Housing Group

Emer Delaney

Director of Communications

Emily Clark

Marketing Coordinator

Emma Midgley

Assistant Director of Customer Experience, Communications

Farzana Baduel

CEO of Curzon PR

Frank Sinclair

Founding Director Of Fit With Frank Ltd

Gareth Turner

Founder, Big Black Door

Gemma Butler

Chief Community Officer at WeAre8

Gihan Hyde

CEO & Founder Communique

Harriet Small

Communications and People Engagement Manager, Sky

Helen Reynolds

UK Social Media Creativity Expert, Comms Creatives

James Delves

Head of PR and External Engagement, CIM

Jennifer Sanchis

Account Director

Kate Isichei

Global collaboration and internal communications consultant

Kate Jarman

Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs

Katrina Wilcox

Head of Marketing and Communications at Housing 21

Kelsea Greene

Editorial & Design Manager, and GOV.UK Lead, at the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Koray Camgöz

PRCA’s Director of Communications & Marketing

Lee Griffith

Founder of sunday skies

Lesley Woods

Head of Campaigns, Chief Communications Officer, Directorate of Defence Communications at the Ministry of Defence

Lewis Williams

PR Professional

Louisa Dean

Head of Communications at the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead and Interim Head of Communications at Reading Borough Council.

Luan Wise

Chartered Marketer, FCIM, Award-winning author, trusted social media marketing advisor and trainer.

Lynda Thwaite

FCIM, Marketing and communications director, group band. Board Director at The People’s Pool

Maaz Rahman

Global Business Transformation Specialist

Marya Stevens

Account Director, Blink

Michael Lowdon

CIPR Outstanding Young Communicator of the Year 2022 | Communications Manager - NIHR

Michelle Carvill

Strategic marketer, digital agency founder, consultant, CIM Course Director for Social Media Strategy

Naomi Jones

Communications and Marketing Director, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

Nezahat Sevim

Global Head of Media and PR at Animals Asia

Nick Crawford

CEO of Work Networks

Nigel Taberner

Managing Director of Level2Communications Ltd.

Priya Bates ABC, MC, SCMP, IABC Fellow

President and owner of Inner Strength

Rachel Roberts

Rachel Roberts is a CIPR Chartered Practitioner, working as a communications consultant for over 20 years operating in-house for BT and Cancer Research UK, and within the consultancy sector.

Ranjeet Kaile

Executive Director of Communications and Engagement, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and South East London Integrated Care Board

Rebecca Benn

Lead of External Communications at Defence Digital

Rebecca Roberts

Founder of Thread & Fable

Rebecca Sangster-Kelly

Comms & Stakeholder Management Coach

Richard Flaherty

Creative Strategy Director

Russell Anderson-Williams

Presentation Expert and Founder of The Prezenter Ltd

Ruth Dale

Coach, Trainer and Podcast Host

Sam Brownjohn

Visual Content Manager, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

Sara Thornhurst

Disabled PR practitioner

Sarah Waddington CBE

Management & PR consultant. CIPR Past President, PRCA Fellow, IoD Ambassador.

Shayoni Lynn

Founder of behavioural science consultancy, Lynn.

Sheeraz Gulsher

Co-Founder of People Like Us

Simon Jones

Executive Director of Communications, Westco Communications

Stephen Waddington

Managing Partner, Wadds Inc

Steve Hayes

Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications at GreenSquareAccord

Stuart Bruce

Founder of digital transformation consultancy Purposeful Relations and crisis communications consultancy Stuart Bruce Associates

SESSIONS

Accessible Comms: Where on Earth do we start?

With Kelsea Greene

An insider’s view of birthdays, wedding, and funerals

With Louisa Dean

Be a Marketing Hero with the Power of Curiosity

With Maaz Rahman

Beanz on Weetabix – When bravery met strategy

With Gareth Turner

Board rooms | The final frontier for PR professionals

With Farzana Baduel

Come and meet People Like Us

With Darain Faraz and Sheeraz Gulsher

Comms Hero? Prove it!

With Jennifer Sanchis

COVID-19 communications – the good, the bad and the ugly

With Antony Tiernan, Claire Riley, Denis Campbell, Kate Jarman & Ranjeet Kaile

Data Driven Communications – Our Secret Weapon to success

With Rebecca Benn

Do what you say… say what you do!

With Gemma Butler and Michelle Carvill

Emotional storytelling

With Nezahat Sevim

Empathy Mapping – Getting in the head of your audience

With Ruth Dale

Equity of employee voice in a hybrid world – is it really possible?

With Nick Crawford

Every journey has a story.

With Amy Nettleton and Asif Choudry

From internal communication to internal conversation

With Marya Stevens

How dare you post this on a professional platform!? And other nonsense

With Steve Hayes

How ESG will change the Internal Communication Landscape

With Gihan Hyde

How to make your slides less sh!t

With Russell Anderson-Williams

How to maximise your earning potential in public relations

With Stephen Waddington

How to speak so that others listen

With Cath Baxter

How to Take the Lead

With Carrie-Ann Wade & Lee Griffith

How to use insight to unlock that creative spark

With Richard Flaherty

Is grammar reelly that important QUESTION MARK

With Edward Thomas

Keeping up with the Joneses

With Stuart Bruce

Listening like a life depends on it….

With Nigel Taberner

Measure what you treasure

With Caroline Cubbon-King and Dan Holden

Mission Impossible: Communication lessons from the front line

With Lesley Woods

Moulding ERGs that work

With Kate Isichei

Moving with the tide: Have you Got 5 Minutes? Live

With Rebecca Roberts and Harriet Small

My Stand-up Comedy Journey: an unusual path to better communication

With Rebecca Sangster-Kelly

PR vs Recession: The business case for comms

With Koray Camgöz

PRCA Public Sector Group

With Carrie-Ann Wade, Emer Delaney and Simon Jones

Remove the fear and doubt, focus on listening to what isn’t being said!

With Emma Midgley

Talking about crises: how can we build resilience

With Amanda Coleman

The integral role of inclusive comms in equality, diversity and inclusion

With Advita Patel and Priya Bates

The language of disability

With Sara Thornhurst

The rise of visual content and how to get it right

With Naomi Jones

TikTok has changed comms – why your brand needs to be there

With Helen Reynolds

Top Ten Tools For Social Media Marketing

With Luan Wise

Understanding changing consumer behaviours and surviving the cancel culture

With James Delves

Using behavioural science to power your communications

With Shayoni Lynn

We don’t just do pink and fluffy

With Lynda Thwaite and Asif Choudry

What does it take to be a Whole Marketer?

With Abigail Dixon

When I grow up, I want to be a CommsHero

With Rachel Roberts, Katrina Wilcox, Emily Clark, Michael Lowdon and Lewis Williams

FREE SESSIONS

27 SEP - 1 OCT

This year #CommsHero hosted another groundbreaking virtual event with over 50 influential speakers, presenting live throughout the week.

All sessions will be available on demand after the event so don’t worry if you didn’t make the live session (more details coming soon.) After a testing year, it’s time to celebrate the heroics comms people are performing every day.

Are you ready to unleash the #CommsHero in you?

Join our CommsHero Guild group HERE to join in on exclusive discussions about the event!

Are you ready to unleash the #CommsHero in you?

Join our CommsHero Guild group HERE to join in on exclusive discussions about the event!

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SPEAKERS

Aamir Abbasi

Chartered PR Practitioner from Chartered Institute of Public Relations - CIPR UK

Alice Weightman

Hanson Search

Alison Battisby

Founder of Avocado Social

Alma Sheren

Marketing & Communications Lead, VOS, Greenacre Recruitment, Greenacre Consult, Board Member, WISH Eastern Region

Amy Nettleton

Assistant Development Director – Sales and Marketing

Ana-Maria Diceanu

President Global WPR Romania and Founder & CEO Brain4Strategy

Andy Barr

Founder of 10 Yetis

Andy Lambert

Director at ContentCal

Annique Simpson

Change Communications Business Partner, Journalist, Event Host & Speaker, Founding Member - UK Black Comms Network

Arthur Smith

Comedian

Asif Choudry

Sales & Marketing Director with resource

Asif Choudry

Sales & Marketing Director with resource

Attiyah Inaam

Corporate communications, public relations, sustainability and social media

Carrie-Ann Wade

Communications director, founder of Cat’s Pajamas Communications Ltd.

Chaya Mistry

International executive communication coach, consultant and Director of Humanly

Chloë Marsh

Head of Communications and Engagement at RHP

Dr Martina Topić

Senior Lecturer in Public Relations at Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University

Dr. Kendi Guantai

Equality, diversity and inclusion lead, award winning academic based at the Leeds University Business School (LUBS)

Ed Thomas

Group Head of Marketing and Communications, the Wrekin Housing Group

Emma Leech

Director of Marketing and Communications at Nottingham Trent University

Fran O’Hara

Founder and Creative Director of Scarlet Design

Frank Sinclair

Founding Director Of Fit With Frank Ltd

Gemma Butler

Marketing Director at the CIM

Gihan Hyde

Founder and CEO of Communique

Graeme Park

Hacienda DJ

Grant Leboff

CEO of Sticky Marketing Club

Harry Tangye

Former Firearms and Traffic Sergeant for Devon and Cornwall Police & author of the best-seller ‘Firearms & Fatals

Hayat Rachi

Chief Marketing Officer at React & Share

Helen Reynolds

UK Social Media Creativity Expert, Comms Creatives

Jayne Rotheroe

Communications Manager at Linc Cymru. DipCIPR

Jeff Corbin

Senior Strategic Advisor for Internal Communications Consulting at Staffbase

Jenni Field

Founder and Director of Redefining Communications

John Rockley

Head of Communications at Rooftop Housing Group

Jules Loveland

Communications Manager

Julian Obubo

Partner and Brand Strategy Director at Manifest

Kate Jones

FIIC, Head of Communications & Corporate Affairs, Tarmac

Koray Camgöz

PRCA’s Director of Communications & Marketing

Kristin Hancock

VP, Community & Engagement ICology

Laurian Hubbard

Head of Engagement at Welsh Parliament, Co-President of Women in PR Cymru, Board Member of Global WPR, CIPR Assessor

Lee Griffith

Founder of sunday skies

Luan Wise

Chartered Marketer, FCIM, Award-winning author, trusted social media marketing advisor and trainer. Advocate for @trusseltrust

Mandy Pearse

CIPR President 2021 and Seashell Communications Director

Mark Webb

Disability advocate, public speaker, and Head of Communications for Shift.ms

Matt Batten

Director of Communication & Engagement, Diocese of Llandaff, Church in Wales.

Michelle Goodall

Chief Marketing Officer at Guild

Mike Klein

Internal Communication Consultant, Senior Advisor at Smarp Strategic Services. Founder #WeLeadComms

Naomi Jones

Communications and Marketing Director for SUEZ

Nichole McGill-Higgins

Independent Consultant, Award-Winning Mentor, Award-Winning Race Equality Campaigner

Nick Adderley

Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police

Nick Knowles

TV Presenter and Award-Winning Writer

Nicky Regazzoni

FPRCA, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, The PR Network

Penny Haslam

Award-winning motivational speaker and Managing Director of Bit Famous

Qurat ul ain Shahid

Certified Director, ICAP, Director’s Training Programme - Interloop Limited

Rachel Miller

Global #InternalComms Consultant and Founder of All Things IC. Charted PR. Fellow CIPR and lolC @theICcrowd co-founder.

Rachel Tolhurst

Communications and Engagement Specialist

Ranjeet Kaile

Executive Director of Communications, Stakeholder Engagement and Public Affairs at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Ruth Dale

Award-Winning Behaviour Change Marketing Specialist

Samra Muslim

Chief Nut at Walnut, CEO of Alchemists

Sarah Puntan-Galea

Valleys to Coast's Communications Director

Sofia Cann

Head of Marketing & Communications at Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax and The Old Courts, Wigan. Freelance Publicist & Communications Consultant at Cann Communications.

Spencer Waldron

Global Brand Communications Director at Prezi

Stephen Waddington

Managing Partner, Wadds Inc

Steve Hayes

Director of Communication at Citizen

Susan Hardwick

co-Founder of GWPR

Syed M. Ayaz

Chief Business Officer at Nutshell Communications

Tom Gaymor

Freelance national commentator - BBC 5 live, Eurosport, BT Sport and Sky Sports

Trudy Lewis

FCIPR

Event Chair: Annique Simpson – Change Communications Business Partner, Journalist, Event Host & Speaker, Founding Member – UK Black Comms Network

Rachel Miller – Director at All Things IC Limited

Advita Patel – Director at CommsRebel

Spencer Waldron – Global Brand Communications Director at Prezi

Grant Leboff – CEO at Sticky Marketing Club

Gina Stringer – Senior PR & Activation Manager – Yorkshire Tea & Taylors of Harrogate

Reece Dinsdale – Actor and Television Director

Graeme Park – International DJ

Julian Obubo – Partner at Manifest London

Gihan Hyde – Founder & CEO Communique

Harry Tangye – Former Firearms and Traffic Sergeant for Devon and Cornwall Police & author of the best-seller ‘Firearms & Fatals‘

Nick Adderley – Northants Chief of Police

Nick Knowles – TV Presenter and Award-Winning Writer

Tom Gaymor – Freelance national commentator – BBC 5 Live, Eurosport, BT Sport and Sky Sports

Sofia Cann – Head of Marketing & Communications (Square Chapel Arts Centre Halifax & The Old Courts Wigan) & Freelance Publicist & Communications Consultant for Cann Communications

Jules Loveland– Communications Manager at Dementia Adventure

Kristin Hancock – VP Community & Engagement at ICology

Aamir Abbasi – Fundraising Manager for Leicester at Al Khair Foundation

Samra Muslim – CEO of Walnut Communications and Alchemists

Syed Ayaz – Chief Business Officer at Nutshell Communications

Ranjeet Kaile – Executive Director of Communications, Stakeholder Engagement and Public Affairs at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Martina Topić – Senior Lecturer & Course Leader in Public Relations & Journalism

Naomi Jones – Communications and Marketing Director at SUEZ UK

Emma Leech – Director of Marketing and Communications at Nottingham Trent University

Helen Reynolds – Comms Training Director at Comms Creatives

Asif Choudry – Marketing and Sales Director at resource

Stephen Waddington – Founder and Managing Partner of Wadds Inc.

Penny Haslam – MD and Founder of Bit Famous Ltd.

Kate Jones – Head of Communications & Corporate Affairs at Tarmac

Mandy Pearse – Director of Seashell Communications & CIPR President 2021

Sarah Waddington – Business Owner at Astute.Work

Chloë Marsh – Head of Communications & Engagement at RHP Group

Amy Nettleton – Assistant Development Director: Sales and Marketing – Aster Group UK

Alma Sheren – Marketing and Communication Lead at Greenacre Recruitment Limited

Fran O’Hara – Managing Director/Creative Director of Scarlet Design International Ltd

Trudy Lewis – Director of Colinear Limited and Board Director of CIPR

Matthew Batten – Director of Communications and Engagement, Diocese of Llandaff, Church in Wales

Rachel Tolhurst – Head of Internal Communications at Amey

Carrie-Ann Wade – Director of Communications and Engagement at NELFT NHS Foundation Trust & Founder and Chief Collaborator of Cat’s Pajamas

Lee Griffith – Founder of Sunday Skies

Jenni Field – Founder, Business Communications Strategist at Redefining Comms

Lynda Thwaite – Group Brand, Marketing & Communications Director at Sir Robert McAlpine

Frank Sinclair – Owner Fit With Frank

Luan Wise – Marketing Consultant at Luan Wise

John Rockley – Head of Communications and Marketing at Rooftop Housing

Alison Battisby – Founder, Social Media Consultant, Trainer and Speaker at Avocado Social

Andy Lambert – Director of Growth at ContentCal

Ed Thomas – Group Head of Marketing and Communications at the Wrekin Housing Group

Mike Klein – Internal Communication Consultant; Senior Advisor, Smarp Strategic Services

Laurian Hubbard – Head of Engagement at Senedd Research, Welsh Parliament

Helen Pudner – Interim Deputy CEO at United Purpose

Sarah Puntan-Galea – Director of Communications at Valleys to Coast

Andy Barr – Owner of 10 Yetis Digital

Koray Camgöz – Director of Communications and Marketing at PRCA

Chaya Mistry – Director of Humanly

Gemma Butler – Marketing Director at CIM, The Chartered Institute of Marketing

Kendi Guantai –

Sarah Pye – Head of Communications and Engagement at Honeycomb Group

SESSIONS

What’s new in social media?

With Luan Wise, Andy Lambert, Alison Battisby & John Rockley

How PR in Pakistan Evolved in Past Decade

With Aamir Abbasi, Qurat ul ain Shahid, Samra Muslim & Syed Ayaz

Calm Edged Rebels

With Advita Patel, Jenni Field & Trudy Lewis

The Recruitment Landscape post-Covid and Virtual Interview Techniques

With Alma Sheren

Can virtual events ever be as a good as face to face?

With Chloë Marsh

HUMAN UP: The call for human leadership and communication

With Chaya Mistry

What can a housing comms pro teach me?

With Ed Thomas, Jayne Rotheroe & Steve Hayes

Marketing’s role in driving a sustainable future

With Gemma Butler

ESG: The Why, What, Who and How?

With Gihan Hyde

Graeme Park in conversation: 30 years on the decks, on stage and on the radio

With Graeme Park

Policing, communications & social media in today’s society

With Harry Tangye, Nick Adderley, Nick Knowles, Sofia Cann & Tom Gaymor

Mental Health Matters

With Jules Loveland

3 predictions for PR in 2022

With Koray Camgöz

All the jobs I didn’t get – and how I handled the ones I did

With Kate Jones

The high stakes game of trust in communication

With Kristin Hancock

Take the Lead

With Carrie-Ann Wade & Lee Griffith

Why successful stakeholder engagement lies at the heart of strategic PR

With Mandy Pearse

Why is disability rarely at the PR table?

With Mark Webb

Women, Leadership and PR Industry in England: What Do Women Want?

With Dr Martina Topić

Comms of Praise: How to get your audience singing from the same hymn sheet during the pandemic

With Matt Batten

Why do we need to pay a lot more attention to 2023?

With Mike Klein

Make Yourself a Little More Confident – 5 ways to build confidence for you, your team and your organisation

With Penny Haslam

Murder Mystery meets behaviour change marketing: Case 202 – The mystery of the murdered #CommsHero

With Ruth Dale

I’m not a spindoctor, I’m a strategist!

With Sarah Puntan-Galea

How to make your content more engaging

With Spencer Waldron

Can we press release that and other stories: Why is PR so bad at its own PR?

With Stephen Waddington

ESG in practice – An in-house case study

With Naomi Jones

From EDI to Sense of Belonging – Bridging the Gap through Ubuntu

With Dr. Kendi Guantai

Global Women in PR panel debate event outline

With Laurian Hubbard, Nicky Regazzoni, Susan Hardwick, Alice Weightman & Ana-Maria Diceanu

How to future-proof your comms career

With Rachel Miller

It’s a numbers game: under-utilised metrics for digital comms success

With Hayat Rachi

Lessons from 20+ years of Online Community Building

With Michelle Goodall

Mind the Gap: Identifying the Holes in Your Internal Comms Strategy

With Jeff Corbin

Sketchnotes & Visual Thinking – Fighting the pandemic information and Powerpoint overload with pens and pictures!

With Fran O'Hara

There’s no I in team

With Amy Nettleton

With Great Power Comms Great Responsibility

With Asif Choudry

VIDEOS

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CommsHero Week 2020

EVENT GALLERY

#CommsHero week
28th September – 2nd October 2020.

Was a virtual event with over 50 influential speakers, presenting live throughout the week. The biggest and best of engaging content, advice, anecdotes and key learnings for Comms professionals.

All sessions are available on demand after the event so don’t worry if you can’t make the live session. After a testing few months since March, it’s time to celebrate the heroics comms people are performing every day.

Are you ready to unleash the inner #CommsHero in you?

Event Sponsor

SPEAKERS

Adam Shepphard

Communications Lead for Research and Innovation at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Advita Patel

Managing Director of CommsRebel

Alana Genge

Communications Manager at Health in Mind

Amanda Coleman

(Chart.PR) FCIPR, FPRCA Crisis Communication Consultant

Amanda Holdsworth

CEO at Holdsworth Communications

Amy Nettleton

Assistant Development Director – Sales and Marketing

Annique Simpson

Award-winning internal communications business partner

Asif Choudry

Sales & Marketing Director with resource, Founder of #CommsHero

Barbara Phillips

Chair, Race and Ethnicity Equity Board/Strategic Comms Consultant

Chaya Mistry

Founder of Humanly, a communication coach and consultant

Chuck Gose

Founder of ICology | Strategic Advisor at SocialChorus

Darren Knight

Cheltenham Borough Council’s Executive Director

Darren Thomas

Campaigner for mental health and well-being

Ed Thomas

Group Head of Marketing and Communications at The Wrekin Housing Group

Emmanuel Ofosu-Appiah

UK PR Manager for Mercer

Feven Iyassu

Director at Golin

Frank Sinclair

Founding Director Of Fit With Frank Ltd

Grant Leboff

One of the U.K's leading Sales and Marketing experts

Harriet Small

Communications consultant and the founder of NO.84

Helen Reynolds

UK Social media creativity expert at Comms Creatives

Jake O’Neill – Vuelio

Head of marketing, Vuelio and ResponseSource

Jason Anthoine

PR Managing Founder

Jenni Field

Founder and Director of Redefining Communications

Josephine Graham

Internal communications lead at Bradford Council

Jude Tipper

Strategic Communications at NHS Digital

Julia Streets

Founder & CEO of Streets Consulting and host of DiverCity Podcast

Kate Jones

FIIC, Head of Communications & Corporate Affairs, Tarmac

Katharina Auer

Principal, 24Auer Consulting

Katie Sandey

Cheltenham Borough Council’s communications and web team leader

Katrina Marshall

Writer, Journalist, Comms MPRCA

Kevin Ruck

Co-founder of PR Academy and course leader for the CIPR Internal Communication Diploma

Koray Camgöz

PRCA’s Director of Communications & Marketing

Laura Skaife-Knight

Deputy Chief Executive - Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (QEH)

Laura Sutherland

Founder and Director at Aura PR

Leah Morantz

Head of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement, Public Health Wales

Lindsay Kohler

Lead Behavioural Scientist for U.K. consultancy Scarlettabbott

Louise Sharf

Transformation Communications Specialist, Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Lucy Goldsmith

Marketing & Communication Manager at Weaver Vale Housing Trust, Cheshire

Lynda Thwaite

Leading the Marketing and Communications division for Sir Robert McAlpine

Naomi Jones

Communications Director, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

Naomi Smith

PR and communications professional

Penny Haslam

Founder | Speaker | Coach & Trainer of Bit Famous Ltd

Rachel Thornton

Co-founder and owner, scarlettabbott

Rax Lakhani

Independent digital PR strategist

Rebecca Roberts

Marketing & Comms Pro, MCIM MPRCA

Sara Hawthorn

Managing director of a specialist PR agency | Accredited PR practitioner with the CIPR

Sarah Waddington

Chart.PR FCIPR FPRCA MIOD | Managing Director Astute.Work | Founder #FuturePRoof

Sharon O’Dea

Consult on comms, collaboration, & future of work. Cofounder Lithos partners and 300 seconds

Stephen Waddington

Managing Partner, Wadds Inc

Steve Hayes

Head of Communications at Citizen

Steven Murgatroyd

Internal Communications Manager at AXA UK

Trudy Lewis

FCIPR

Will Day

Internal Channels and Content Manager, Santander UK

#CommsHero Week is CPD approved for all CIPR members

35 sessions x 5 CPD points per session = 175 points. You can earn more than your annual CPD requirement (60 points) in a week between 28th September – 2nd October

Details of how to log your CPD points for #CommsHero Week coming soon.

SESSIONS

‘Wow, you sound busy’ A session for small comms teams

With Alana Genge

‘Never Waste a Good Crisis’

With Leah Morantz

#ShareYourShit

With Darren Thomas

18 million likes, or, why your influencer marketing is wrong

With Jake O'Neill

A seat at the table: silver bullet or white elephant?

With Kate Jones

BAME panel debate

With Barbara Phillips, Katharina Auer, Emmanuel Ofosu-Appiah & Katrina Marshall

Be bold, be brave, be you: A personal brand journey

With Amy Nettleton

Being Relevant In the Next Normal

With Grant Leboff

Curbing your imposter – top tips to help you beat your imposter syndrome so you can succeed in your role and beyond

With Advita Patel

Deconstructing ableism to build a better PR industry

With Sara Hawthorn

Employee burnout – what is it and how can I beat it?

With Annique Simpson

From HR to PR: Reflections and learnings – My time in the PR industry

With Naomi Smith

Growing career confidence & unleashing the creative superhero inside

With Helen Reynolds

Help I’m a communicator…get me out of COVID-19!

With Stephen Waddington

How can brands remain sustainable post covid?

With Naomi Jones

How do we talk with ‘Generation Covid’; engaging youth audiences

With Rebecca Roberts

How Santander stayed connected during Covid

With Will Day

How to stop the sway: values as anchors

With Jude Tipper

If Your Culture Stinks, So Will Your Brand

With Amanda Holdsworth

Informing, engaging, motivating: how to master internal communication and why it matters

With Steve Hayes

Is stakeholder engagement really that important?

With Ed Thomas

Keeping morale up when motivation is low

With Lindsay Kohler

Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous

With Penny Haslam

Mama under lockdown – key workers, kids and crisis comms – one woman’s story

With Josephine Graham

Persistently Positive – using your comms superpower

With Lynda Thwaite

Reprioritising internal and external comms

With Louise Sharf

Staying #FutureProof: Lessons from the community at a time of change

With Sarah Waddington

Stop, collaborate and listen: 3 ways 2020 turbocharged strategic PR

With Koray Camgöz

The future of risk and crisis communication

With Amanda Coleman

The Hidden Power of Internal Communications in Creating Inclusive Workplaces

With Harriet Small

The Mind Matter: a fresh approach to employee engagement…whatever that means

With Chuck Gose

The Power of productivity

With Jenni Field

The Role Exercise Plays On Our Mental Health

With Frank Sinclair

Trolls are not always cute, colourful characters that sing songs and go on world tours

With Asif Choudry & Jason Anthoine

Using DRIVEN Pledge to support your journey to becoming more diverse, equal and inclusive

With Laura Sutherland & Rax Lakhani

Womblecock & Tosser – Two words I never thought I’d be allowed to use in a professional capacity

With Darren Knight & Katie Sandey

VIDEOS

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