About Us
Meet the team
We’re a communications consultancy preparing clients for media interviews, presentations, crises, parliamentary select committees, regulatory and public body hearings.
Drawing on years of work in high-stakes professional and broadcast settings, what sets us apart is our personal hands-on experience and expertise in everything we train and coach. Our approach and skills are based on our own understanding of what it takes to be a great communicator, using the techniques and capabilities which we have used ourselves and observed in others. Organisations and brands turn to us to shape, protect and transform their reputations.
Nadine Dereza
Media Director & Co-Founder
Nadine is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist and moderator, known for hosting global conferences and interviewing high-profile leaders across business, politics and media.
Nadine has presented business, finance and current affairs programmes on TV for major networks including CNBC, Associated Press, Summit TV, BBC, CNN, SABC, Simply Money and Sky TV. She presented CNBC’s IoT: Powering the Digital Economy, investigating how the merging of physical and virtual worlds are disrupting and shaping different industries. She was named ‘Financial Journalist of the Year’ during her time at the Financial Times and Summit TV.
Nadine chairs, hosts and moderates conferences, panel discussions and live events. This is for a diverse range of clients across many industries and sectors in the UK and internationally. Over the years, she has worked with the full business spectrum from entrepreneurs to senior leadership teams and has interviewed key policy and decision makers, as well as countless global politicians.
For over a decade, she has worked alongside leading KCs, Judges and Barristers as a Communications Consultant for Assurety, the leading witness preparation business. She co-devised the communication tips and techniques when giving evidence virtually at the High Court, Employment Tribunals, Arbitrations and the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Nadine was appointed judge for the International Broadcasting Convention’s ‘Accelerators Media Innovation Programme’ with a mix of world-leading and new industry players from across the global media, entertainment and technology communities who come together to explore potential solutions to critical industry challenges.
Ross Edmonds
Communications Director & Co-Founder
Ross is a presenter, facilitator and conference event designer for many of the top businesses in the UK and abroad. His experience extends across many industries and sectors, notably the travel industry, financial services, pharmaceuticals, media, banking, telecommunications, and information technology.
Ross worked for British Airways for several years, in both an operational and commercial capacity, before turning his attention to presenting and facilitating business events. He has since worked on long-term communication programmes with many businesses, including Continental Tyres, DHL, VitrA, ITV, Merck, Nationwide Platforms, National Autistic Society, TfL (Transport for London), Tesco, Reed & Mackay, Alpha Private Equity and The British Library.
Ross designs learning & development programmes, including presentation and pitching skills among other things. It’s Ross’s ability to apply his expertise as both a presenter and a ‘content developer’, that our clients love so much. He helps them create compelling narratives and clear coherent messages for meetings, live events and conferences, and can then coach our clients to deliver these key messages in a fluent and confident way.
Relationships are key
We love working with some of the best-known brands, organisations and businesses. Clients return to us consistently and tell us it’s the environment we create that keeps them coming back.
When the scale of a project calls for it, we expand the team, drawing on a network of presenters, journalists and communications experts in the UK and beyond.
