About the Trainers
Talking Heads works with a select number ‘tried and trusted’ trainers, all of who have operated at the highest level. Where appropriate our trainers have professional accreditation, such as CiM or CIPR approved trainer status.
Our trainers include:
Nicole Bowman has 10 years experience working for some of the UK’s leading PR consultancies where she led award-winning programmes recognized by the CIPR, Sage Business Telegraph Awards and The Soil Association. Since becoming a trainer and coach, she has worked with wide range of clients nationally and internationally including Cambridge Marketing College, Orange, Homeserve GB, Business West, Westcountry Housing and many others. Her supportive, yet challenging training style and practical industry knowledge enables people to master essential skills while developing deeper self-awareness, which helps them to take control of their business success.
Peter Brill is director of Net-Mentor Ltd, specialists in written and multimedia content, strategic public relations, communication skills training and facilitation. After training and working in broadcast journalism, Peter turned to PR - leaving his last corporate role as Head of PR at RAC to set up his own company. In-house and agency experience includes strategic PR planning, brand communications and crisis management. He is a lecturer for the CIPR and CIM in Public Relations and Chairman of Salaam Shalom, the UK’s first Muslim/Jewish radio station.
Magnus Carter, MCIPR worked as a journalist in newspapers, radio and TV, covering several general elections, the storming of the Iranian Embassy and the Libyan Embassy siege for radio, and the British Midland air crash at Kegworth for TV. In 1998, he established Mentor Consultancy, providing a range of personal communications training including handling the media. Magnus was communications advisor to the Bristol Royal Infirmary Public Inquiry Team and has run crisis simulations for major transport operators, banks, utilities, facilities management companies, housing providers and local authorities.
Vyvyan Kinross, BA (Hons), MCIPR, is a CIPR Approved Trainer who has spent a total of 20 years in marketing and public relations consultancy. In 1987, he was a founder and principal of Kinross + Render Ltd, which became a top 50 marketing and PR firm with over 30 employees and a fee income in the UK of £2.3 million. He is a graduate in Modern Arabic Studies from the University of Durham and spent the first seven years of his career as a journalist specialising in Middle East Affairs. Whilst at IPC Business Press he was commended as Feature Writer of the Year, and still remains a member of the National Union of Journalists.
Di Burton BA PGCE FCIPR FCIPD - is recognised as an industry expert in Internal Communication, she has worked at 10 Downing Street and for a number of blue chip organisations on their internal communication strategies. Her clients include First Capital Connect, the Irish Electricity Supply Board (ESB) and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. As a Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Accredited Practitioner and Approved Trainer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), she is one of the most senior trainers for the CIPR.
Jane Silk MA (Marketing) MCIM - A qualified senior marketing professional, Jane has worked in marketing and branding for over 20 years. She has developed brand and product propositions for blue chip organisations including Marks & Spencer, Boots, Mercedes Benz, Toyota , Sainsburys, AXA Sunlife, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Thomson Holidays, Warner Leisure Hotels and The Tourist Board. Before moving into consultancy was senior brand manager at Lloyds TSB; working on the launch of the new brand.
Andrew Fawkes MCIM AETNT - Andrew is a Chartered Marketer with over 20 years' experience in the financial services sector. His senior marketing roles include brand, communications and staff engagement. He has also run a business advisory consultancy focusing on the improvement in performance of marketing teams. Recent clients include Lloyds TSB, Co-op Bank, Co-op Food Retail, The DMA West, The Spark Agency Network and BANES Education Authority CVS.
Interested in joining the Talking Heads training team?
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