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I moderate your event professionally and safeguard the goals, atmosphere and content. With humor, up-tempo and always interactive. Without predictable statements or dreadful monologues. My added value is also that I, as a professional outsider, assist you in making your goals clear and concrete and together with you design a working method that makes us achieve those goals. I am founder of EU en Europe moderators collective moderating.eu. We believe conferences can be more engaging, inclusive and impactful.
$1,501 - $5,000
Elisabeth Lewis-Jones – CEO, Liquid Lis has extensive PR experience, having worked across a variety of sectors in both in-house and agency roles. She has played a significant part in shaping the communications landscape in the UK for the past decade through her involvement in the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) of which she was national president in 2008, chairman of the PRCA Council in 2011/12 and from 2013 a member of the PRCA Board of Management. She is an expert in crisis communications and strategic PR consultancy, with knowledge and experience across a broad range of client business, from travel and tourism to education, food and healthcare. Lis has vast industry experience at the most senior level, including hosting the 5th Global Alliance World Public Relations Conference and Festival in London and speaking at key PR conferences in Argentina, Bahrain, Nigeria and South Africa. Prior to founding Liquid, Lis was managing director of one of the largest independent PR consultancies in Birmingham for three years and a board director for six years. Lis has acted as a PR commentator in the Financial Times, The Times and The Independent, was guest presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live’s travel programme ‘Blue Skies’ and was responsible for and became a main character in BBC Radio 4’s fly on the wall programme, The Airport. She has contributed to the Kogan Page book, ‘Managing Business Risk’ (2007) and sits on the editorial advisory board of Independent Schools Magazine. She is a Governor of Bloxham School, a Freeman of The City of London Guild of Public Relations Practitioners and a Trustee of Iprovision, the benevolent fund of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. In 2015 Lis was appointed a Trustee of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. Lis founded Liquid in 2004 in a room above her mother’s garage. The company is now eleven years old, a top 150 PR consultancy and operates in Birmingham, Guernsey, Jersey and London. It is the only UK PR consultancy to have offices in the Channel Islands. In 2013 Lis became an advisor to the Cabinet Office/Number 10 reviewing the way the UK Government communicates in the regions. She is a mentor on the Government Communication Service’s ‘aspire’ programme. PR Week has listed her as one of the top 100 most influential people in PR and ‘one of the leading crisis communication practitioners in the UK’. She has handled a variety of crisis situations from a fatal plane crash, BSE/CJD to prescription errors, industrial tribunals, court cases and corporate incidents. In 2014 Liquid was named PRCA DARE Awards consultancy of the year in the Midlands and the CIPR PRide Awards consultancy of the year for the south of England and Channel Islands. Liquid is a PR Week ‘Top 40’ agency outside London. Lis was awarded Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations for her contribution to the PR industry in 2003.
$251 - $1,500
Mel Carson is a Modern Marketing and Digital PR Strategist and Consultant, Personal Branding Expert, Public Speaker, Author and Business Columnist. As founder of Seattle-based Modern Marketing and Digital PR consulting agency – Delightful Communications – his mission is to educate and inspire businesses and individuals make the most of the explosion of digital media and technology and successfully apply strategies that focus on Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Content Marketing, Digital PR and Personal Branding. Mel began his digital career as an editor at the US search engine LookSmart in 2000, then spent time at 24/7 Search (now part of WPP) as an Account Director before taking on a role at Microsoft in 2005. He was an integral part of the team that planned & launched the global roll-out of Microsoft adCenter (now Bing Ads) in August 2006 and was then asked (when it became apparent social media was going to be huge) to fulfill the role of Digital Marketing Evangelist for Microsoft. A decade on, Mel is now in constant demand to speak on digital marketing, digital PR and personal branding at conferences and events all over the world and has had his words and wisdom appear in a fantastic array of top publications such as The Financial Times, Fast Company, The Next Web, Forbes, GQ, Quartz, USA Today, PR Daily and Entrepreneur.com. Mel has spoken about Digital Disruption, Modern Marketing, Social Media and Personal Branding at conferences and events in the UK, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Portland, San Diego, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Toronto, Reykjavik, Dublin, Barcelona & Tenerife. He has also lectured on MBA, MSc, and online marketing courses, advising syllabus decision makers at Cranfield School of Management, Birkbeck College – part of London University and regularly speaks at student events at the University of Washington > Foster School of Business. He's author of the critically acclaimed Pioneers of Digital and Introduction to Personal Branding, played the "Young Joe Cocker" in the rock legend's 1997 music video "N'Oubliez Jamais" with France cinema icon, Catherine Deneuve, and is a driving force behind the #MajesticInSpace Project which aims to 3D print the first advertisement on the International Space Station two hundred and fifty miles above the earth.
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Andy is a former MP who won a high profile Parliamentary by-election and became a frontbencher in the House of Commons. When he was swept out of Parliament at the 2015 General Election, Andy returned to PR, his profession, as CEO of Connect Communications and went on to lead a management buy-out. Andy specialises in helping organisations, from business to the public sector, understand what politics means for them and how to influence the powers that be. Andy leads strategy and futures sessions and is a lively speaker, sharing insights and experiences from his time in politics and business.
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MA qualified Senior Consultant & Communications Strategist. International career has been based upon a platform of dynamic & innovative reputation, corporate communication & public relations management that has delivered sustainable commercial results. Content based strategist with a solid track record of developing highly creative communication strategies & plans for both the private, the public and the not-for-profit sectors. I am keen to build bespoke solutions with specific expertise across multiple sectors for large organisations, with an ability to deliver outstanding top & bottom line results. KEY SKILLS - Integral and strategic approach through effective leadership of project and account teams - In-depth knowledge of benchmark analysis, media monitoring&evaluation and market insights - Experience in content management (from strategy, key messaging, storytelling and branded content) - 360 degree stakeholder relations & management with all media platforms including Social Media - Target effective & efficient communication campaign through clear expectations and budget planning - Employer branding and internal communication and engagement programs - Strategic expertise is supported by C-level counselling experience, securing premium results in advising on corporate and crisis communication issues, regularly consulting at the highest level both as an individual consultant and as a member of an advisory group Sectors: Financial, Energy, Transport, Start-ups
$0 - $250
Large knowledge of communication and Public Relation (all postcommunism)
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PR and media expert. UK PRCA Council Member.
$251 - $1,500
Natasha is senior leader who has worked across communications, corporate and public affairs disciplines in wide-ranging businesses and sectors from Financial Services to FMCG. Her early career was built on a foundation of NGO and political campaigning. A campaigner at heart, Natasha has developed and executed high-profile thought leadership and behavioural change campaigns. From running responsible drinking campaigns and issues at Diageo, to the global insight thought leadership campaign, HSBCNavigator. She led employee and stakeholder strategies to change perceptions of the role of sustainable finance in driving business transition at HSBC and is currently a sustainability and issues consultant for P&G’s fabric care and beauty brands. Recently she was a strategic adviser to a bank in Saudi Arabia on the development of their sustainable finance strategy. Her approach is built on the role that reputation plays in driving business success, which is at the forefront of many of the key business critical issues we face today, from sustainability and ESG, through to the future of work and business resilience. She is passionate about the role of business in solving issues of people and planet - and with that comes greater scrutiny, need for transparency and a point of view that stakeholders trust.
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Chris is an Associate Director at The Whitehouse Consultancy, a specialist issues-led communications agency. He leads the public relations team at Whitehouse and is responsible for delivering senior counsel to a range of corporate and charity clients, also managing their public and media relations, and advising on reputation and crisis management. Chris has managed national media campaigns and is a co-Chairman of the Public Relations Consultants Association reputation group. He is also a member of the Association industry think-tank, the PR Council, and has appeared on national television and radio to provide political analysis.
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I’m a senior digital marketer specialising in social media. I'm currently head of social in EMEA for Weber Shandwick - one of the world's largest communication agencies. At Weber I lead social media business for some of the world's largest brands including Unilever (All Things Hair), Nestle (Nespresso, Purina), Electrolux (AEG), Motorola, Lenovo, Vauxhall, Wickes, Ocado and the Mayor of London. Previous to this I headed up social and digital work for Proctor & Gamble at Ketchum - covering 14 different P&G brands. I'm Chair of the PRCA's Digital Group, a member of the PRCA Council and sit on the AMEC social media measurement committee. I play an active role in the wider PR industry and I am a regular speaker, commentator and blogger on digital PR and the future of the industry.
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Managing Director of the Austrian PR agency The Skills Group (http://skills.at), an affiliate of FleishmanHillard International Communications (http://fleishmanhillard.com). Since its founding in 1984 his agency is amongst the leading communications consultancies in Austria and one of the most-awarded PR firms in Europe. Juergen is specialized in issue management, crisis communications and high-end strategy consulting. In recent years, together with his agency team, he became internationally one of the most-awarded European PR experts and won since 2010: 5-times a SABRE Gold Award (EMEA), 4-times the 1st prize of the Austrian Best Practice Award, twice the International German PR Prize (2013, 2014), two German PR Report Awards and received 2013 for the third time the renown Austrian State PR Award. He is a Board member of the Austrian Public Relations Association (http://www.prva.at) responsible for International Affairs and Quality Standards, and he represents Austria in the board of the International Communications Consultancy Organization (http://www.iccopr.com). Juergen is an author and co-author of several publications on online communications and E-Commerce and regularly active as a lecturer on social media and mass communications. Before joining the professional PR industry almost 20 years ago, Juergen has been active as social worker, campaign director and European Youth representative at the Council of Europe, the European Union and at United Nations conferences. He is married, has two kids an is a passionate scuba diver and also awarded as underwater photographer. He speaks German, English and a little Arabic.
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Professional goals: helping small size organisations and companies to manage change and to become more efficient. I provide internal and external advise in the area of general organization, finance and budget control, the right person in the right job, managing intercultural differences and language difficulties. Experience: over 10 years of in intercultural experience, mainly in Asia, Europe and North-America. Over 8 years in turning around and putting back on track an international foundation with headoffice in Brussels. 11 years of contractmanagement in R&D department of major pharmaceutical company Specialties: Cross- and Intercultural Training - Global Teams - Interim Management - Public Speaker
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