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) and the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA).
Katherine Sykes
FoundING DIRECTOR, SENIOR CONSULTANT
Katherine is a strategic communication and corporate/public affairs specialist with 25+ years' experience of delivering board and senior level counsel to FTSE 100/250 companies, membership organisations, trade associations and other clients. A former City lawyer, her practice area combines strategic communication, politics, policy and the law. She has particular expertise in handling complex and contentious issues; managing reputation, issues, risk and crises; stakeholder engagement; developing multichannel campaigns; and ESG sustainability. She supports and delivers transformational change.
Katherine has worked in the consumer/FMCG and pharmaceutical product sectors as both a product litigation/regulation lawyer and as a senior communications/public affairs adviser. She currently works across healthcare, health and nutrition, food and drink, consumer brands, FMCG, medical and pharmaceutical products, the NHS and professional services.
Katherine is a Chartered PR Practitioner and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). 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). She holds a CIPR postgraduate diploma in Crisis Communications and is the co-Chair of the CIPR’s Crisis Communications Network. She is also a Director of the Enterprise Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Member of the Law Society.
