About Us
Expertise – offered with flexibility and scalability
We offer advisory services, consultancy and/or interim support on either a daily basis or for longer term assignments. We offer our services either as individuals or as a team, and because we are a network consultancy, our trusted freelance consultants come together to use their expertise and skills as and when clients require them. This enables us to reduce our overheads and scale our consultancy to fit your brief in the most cost effective and time efficient way possible. Depending on the brief, we charge either a daily rate or a fixed fee, either inside or outside IR35, as appropriate.
We offer a professional service and operate to high standards. We adhere to the Codes of Conduct established by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).
Katherine Sykes
FoundER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, SENIOR CONSULTANT
Katherine is a strategic communication, policy, crisis and risk management director with extensive experience of delivering Board, executive and senior counsel to FTSE listed companies, membership organisations, national government and charities. She offers a unique skillset gained through her careers as a City lawyer (litigation/regulation), External Affairs Director and Non-Executive Director.
Katherine is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and is the Founder and Chair of CIPR’s Crisis Communications Network. She has extensive experience of managing and mitigating a broad spectrum of issues and risks including legal, regulatory, political, reputational and commercial. She specialises in handling complex and contentious issues; preparing for and managing crisis; optimising business performance; building resilience and long-term sustainable advantage; and has extensive experience of instigating and leading groundbreaking projects to deliver transformation of business strategy and practice. She is passionate about driving purpose-driven strategies, good governance, crafting compelling communications and campaigns, developing brands and campaigns, and engaging with stakeholders to influence positive action.
Her expertise stretches across healthcare, health and wellbeing, nutrition, food and drink, consumer brands, FMCG, retail, medical and pharmaceutical products, the NHS, professional services, regulated industries, politics, livery companies and charities.
She is a committed Board member, Chair, Non-Executive Director and Trustee. In addition she is a Past Master (2017-18) of the City of London Company of Communicators (the PR and communications industry's livery company, previously known as the Company of Public Relations Practitioners); a professional mediator (CEDR qualified); and project manager (Prince 2 qualified), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Member of the Law Society. She holds a CIPR postgraduate diploma in Crisis Communications. In both 2023 and 2024 she was awarded the CIPR Volunteer Award for Outstanding Leadership.
