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PRCA Reputation Group: Your People are your Reputation


Date

11 Jul 2017

Time

18:00

Location

London

Details

Summary:

Please join us for this PRCA Reputation Group event on 11th July entitled 'Your People are your Reputation'.

Event Type: Group Event

Address: Quiller Consultants, Holborn Gate 26 Southampton Buildings, London, WC2A 1AH

Event Overview

Please join us for a discussion on what a fully engaged workforce means and how it can benefit the reputation of your business. We know that having a fully engaged workforce reaps many benefits from productivity, to retention and this discussion will bring to life how companies have empowered their people to be ambassadors and truly live, and act, on the values they espouse.

We are delighted to welcome Kathryn Partridge - VP Corporate Communications and Brand, Tata Communications. Kathryn is an international reputation management leader with a career spanning corporate, consumer, B2B, private equity and consultancy organisations. She delivers strategic reputation and communications consultancy to senior-most business leaders, and is passionate about business leaders underpinning commercial decisions with integrated stakeholder engagement approaches to reputation.

Barney Wyld -  Group Communications Director, Network Rail. Barney leads the corporate communications function for Network Rail, responsible for all internal and external communications, public affairs and contact with the public.  Network Rail owns and maintains 20,000 miles of railway in the UK and all the stations, with 38,000 employees, hundreds of thousands of contractors, and 20 million people living or working close to the railway.  Every day 4.5 million people use the network and the comms team has to balance a high intensity operational environment with heavy scrutiny from media, political, regulatory and government audiences.

Barney has worked in Parliament, Government, consultancy and business.  He joined Network Rail from Unilever where he was global vice president, communications and helped create and lead a global communications function of 350.  In this role he spent nearly two years leading global employee engagement campaigns. Before joining Unilever he was senior director, strategy and communications for the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).  Barney started his career as a speechwriter in the UK parliament, and then spent eight years in consultancy, rising to board director at Fishburn Hedges.

Nick Wright is an independent consultant working with clients in sectors ranging from energy, financial services, food and drink to pharmaceuticals. Between 2011 and 2015 Nick was communications director at accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO.  His responsibilities covered reputation management activity including internal communication and brand engagement.  Full engagement scores rose from an all-time low of 39% to an all-time high of 57% during his tenure. Nick is also an associate with Sweet Comms.

Abbie Pugh - Partner with Multiple - who are engineers of scale. ‘We help technology companies nail their purpose, fire up their people and build platforms for growth so they can take out the competition, take a big exit or take over the world.’ Abbie has been a Director with the Rainmaker Foundation and Chief of Staff at Nomodo and Facebook.

Adrian Walcott - Managing Director, Brands with Values Formerly marketing with Eurostar and Barclays, Adrian founded Brands with Values in 2015. He believes that values underpin everything we do and if we want to create better brands, and stronger communities we’ve got to start (and finish) with values. Adrian is also founder of BAME2020 with an aim to have 20% of the total young talent that enters the markeeting and communications industry each year to come from BAME backgrounds and 20% of leadership roles represented by BAME talent.

The session will be chaired by Natasha Plowman - independent communications and engagement consultant. She recently wrote about how we need to be ‘working in a more adult world’ - which is key to ensuring your people really are your reputation.

Places are strictly limited to 30 so we can have a wide discussion. If you can’t make it, please get involved by following #PRCArep.

Attendance at this event is worth 15 CPD points.