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Deborah is a well-regarded consultant with a wealth of experience in her field.
She established Promodo twenty years ago and has led and delivered many high-profile pieces of work. Described by PR Week as a ‘City PR expert’, Deborah brings an incredibly broad range of skills and a good dose of pragmatism to all her work. She has built a reputation as a trusted advisor, with a strong track record of delivery. Deborah has excellent personal networks across government, business, media, opinion formers and with think tanks.
Her particular 'expertise' is in:
Corporate communications
Internal communications
Leadership brand, reputation and influencing
Public affairs and government relations
Media
Inward investment and place marketing
Local Government transformation
Stakeholder communications
She is also an accomplished speech writer and an excellent crisis and issues management advisor.
Dave has held senior executive positions within Local Government for the past fifteen years, including seven as Chief Executive. As a well-recognised figure he has worked widely at a regional and national level in a number of key strategic public sector policy areas and set up the Key Cities group in 2014.
As a consultant, Dave can particularly add value in thought leadership, change modelling and implementation; reputation and influencing; economic development; devolution and new forms of public service delivery.
He has comprehensive strategic and operational understanding of Local Government and associated relationships with Central Government, Health and Private Sector partners. With excellent negotiation and mediation skills within local government and between local government, central government, public and private sectors he is actively involved at a senior level in the Devolution agenda, integration of services, and alternative forms of service delivery.