I have taken the bold step and want to change my email signature to include a category called thought leader. Why? Well I am currently reading a brilliant book called “The New Rules of Marketing and PR – How to use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing & Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly” by […]

Decisionmaking is never easy! All managers know that! But the crisis in the Financial Industry is starting to bite big time. I just read an article http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jFilemDz23jniJrwYeBy-NA-8fXA that speaks about some directors leaving a German Bank and then the words: "On Monday, the German lender unveiled the results of an audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers which said […]

Do you value your organization’s Reputation? If you do I would suggest that you step up your efforts to comply with Health & Safety standards ASAP. My reasoning for this warning is simple. There is going to be a fall-out after the South African President Thabo Mbeki ordered a safety audit of all the country’s […]

There was chaos the past week in Johannesburg. On Monday afternoon it took me 3 hours to get home from the Airport. During the bumper to bumper traffic journey I got frantic calls from my family asking me where I was and how long it would be before I get home. Apparently they had heard […]

For the past 22 years I have been an independent management consultant focusing on Corporate Reputation. Yet, there is another side to me. I am also a trainer and consultant in Occupational Health & Safety Compliance and it is a passion of mine. For the past 20 years I have also been doing Health & […]

I must be doing something right. I recently facilitated a very successful Stakeholder Reputation workshop with delegates from organisations such as the Banking Organisation, BHP Billiton, De Beers, The International Red Cross and various Tourism authorities. It even attracted visitors from other countries. What was really helpful were the delightful comments that I received from […]

British businesses are better prepared than many of their global counterparts when it comes to planning for key business risks, according to a new report. Grant Thornton’s survey of 7,200 businesses across 32 countries asked companies whether they had formal documentation in place for dealing with a range of potential problems such as loss of […]

I just read an article in the South African newspaper, the Beeld about the  appointment of another 20 Green Scorpion members. For those of you who don’t know, the Green Scorpions are South Africa’s version of environmental policemen. What caught my attention is that there had been 900 arrests and 134 successful court cases since […]

I am hosting a programme from the 27th and 28th August in Johannesburg, South Africa that will provide leaders and practitioners with powerful tools and competencies to optimise their stakeholder* reputation building efforts and relationships with key stakeholders.  The programme will explore how stakeholder relationships impact on the creation of organisational reputation. This 2 -day workshop […]

A South African newspaper called the Beeld this week featured front page footage including dramatic colour photos of the Seaboard Hotel fire in Durban, South Africa with a caption: “Hotel-Inferno: Helicopters win battle against time to save 80 from roof”. It also featured another section a day later about the panic of people in the […]