Public affairs

Making your voice heard in an increasingly crowded public debate means demonstrating the positive difference you bring to your stakeholders and communities, whilst communicating why your opinions can help shape better policy.

Our unrivalled insight and network will help you better represent yourselves with policymakers and other important audiences in Scotland and across the UK.

Our expertise

• Public affairs campaign delivery
• Political and regulatory advice
• Government relations
• Stakeholder and community engagement
• Parliamentary committee training
• Issues management
• Insight and monitoring

Media relations

Digital. Social. Print. Cutting-through today’s 24-hour media cycle requires compelling stories, told with purpose.

Our PR team is on the pulse of what works in today’s landscape, whether that’s optimising content for your own channels or harnessing relationships built over decades with editors and journalists at the UK’s most influential titles.

Our expertise:

• Public relations (PR)
• Media strategy and handling
• Outsourced press office
• Content and copywriting
• Digital and social activation and amplification

Media training and impact training

Media training

We believe the very best media training combines education, practical application, and immediate feedback and recommendations to continue improving. The journey begins with listening and understanding your communication goals and needs.

Impact training

We have developed a series of workshops for senior executives that can isolate the factors that underpin someone’s gravitas as well as the areas that drain it. Then we work to help you understand what this looks like to others.

Many of those we work with have a strong subject knowledge but leading teams or whole organisations requires a broader skillset, including exceptional communication skills, the ability to influence people and the craft to deliver the best keynote speeches and motivational messages to employees.

Our expertise:

• Media training
• Impact and gravitas training
• Presentation training
• Public consultation training
• Writing training

Crisis communications

How we respond in a crisis can be the measure of us as organisations or leaders. That’s why it’s important to prepare for any eventuality and have trusted counsel by your side, from start to finish and beyond. Our team of experienced crisis handlers will help you to deal with the unexpected, and to protect and enhance your reputation through difficult times.

Our expertise:

• Organisational resilience support
• Crisis response and planning
• Reactive issues management
• Reputation management

Business transformation and restructuring

Corporate restructuring activities range from simple strategic actions that can be executed in a short timeframe, to hugely complex transformation programmes that take years to work through. We provide strategic communications advice and hands-on support to institutions and leaders facing a range of challenges, tailoring our support to fit the client and the circumstances.

Our expertise:

• Situation-specific media training
• Comprehensive stakeholder mapping exercises
• Scenario testing
• Preparing for an information leak
• Bolstering in-house comms team capacity

Corporate and strategic communications

Today’s leaders need the insight, counsel and support to build reputations that will serve them well over the long-term.

We have helped to develop some of Scotland and the UK’s most impactful corporate brands, serving as a partner from initial concept through to long-term reputation management.

Our expertise:

• Executive profile raising
• Thought leadership
• Leadership coaching
• Reputation audit
• Narrative and messaging

Strategic counsel

Chief executives and other senior leaders are judged increasingly on their ability and willingness to communicate clearly. Every leader, whether a toward or away type, benefits from the support of mentors and advisors in managing long-term reputation, motivating people, negotiating difficult decisions, and instilling confidence in your most important stakeholders.

Our expertise:

• Leadership coaching
• Executive profile raising
• Presentation and impact training
• Thought leadership

Internal communications and employee engagement

During any dynamic and fast-changing situation, we can assist you by identifying and developing the key messages and internal narrative needed for your organisation and sector, ensuring they resonate. Often, this is just as important as external communications and yet frequently overlooked.

Our expertise:

• Message and narrative development
• Q&A preparation
• Scenario planning
• Risk mapping
• Presentation training