Over the past 20 years, I’ve written more than one million words for clients. I’ve also helped partners and clients plan and implement communications strategies at the highest level – with their customers, shareholders, employees and other stakeholders.

My greatest strength is as a corporate writer, because of my grasp of strategy. I’ve written annual reports and prospectuses, corporate brochures, corporate magazines and white papers. I’ve written keynote speeches for senior industry figures; scripts for presentations, videos and DVDs; edited and written magazines and newsletters. But I’ve also written extensive amounts of sales collateral.

Experience includes conference organisation and moderation as well as motivation and incentive schemes. And because I’ve worked with some of the most successful design companies in Europe, I have a well-honed sense of visual grammar. Clients and experience are international. Prices are competitive and first-rate value for money.

I also have extensive knowledge and understanding of corporate social responsibility, environment & climate change and North-South development. Among other things, I’ve edited and published a book of essays on the digital divide, contributed a chapter for a weighty guide for lawyers on CSR, and chaired high level discussions concerning the media and governance in Africa.

CATEGORIES OF WORK
Project management … annual reports … corporate brochures … sales/technical brochures … newsletters … speeches … electronic/web scripts … audio scripts/audio production … conference/video/DVD scripts/production … French-English translation.

SECTOR EXPERIENCE
Financial services: banking, accounting, insurance … aerospace & air transport … IT & telecommunications … brewing & distilling … defence & manufacturing … hotels & catering … publishing … international institutions … non-governmental organisations.

PROOF POINTS
(1) Copywriting: hundreds of thousands of words crafted for clients on almost every conceivable subject. Includes annual reports, corporate brochures, corporate history, white papers, internal magazines, sales collateral, advertisements and letters. Speech/scriptwriting: speeches and scripts for industry keynotes, sales conferences, videos and audio magazines; formal and informal; from advanced technology to bee-keeping, strategic change to sales kick-offs; UK and global audiences.

(2) Copyediting: one-time editor of a flagship weekly trade press magazine; award-winning house journal editor; editor and writer of numerous customer contact newsletters; copyediting to perfection.

(3) Project management: the complete re-edit and redesign of a series of brochures on the UK regions for the EU Commission; planning, research, writing, editing and project management for corporate history; concept, positioning. launch and ongoing editing of client quarterly publications; research, writing and production of corporate DVDs; ministerial-level conferences in European capital cities.

SOME PAST & PRESENT CLIENTS
Institute for Citizenship Studies, General Electric (US), Welsh Development Agency, European Commission, Association for the Monetary Union of Europe (Paris), Nortel Networks, Institut Théseus postgraduate management college (Nice), British Telecom, Rank Xerox, Towergate Underwriting, First Great Western, VSEL, Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association (HEDNA), Supranational Hotels.

Extensive working relationship (1994-present) with SITA (Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautique) – Geneva-based global organisation providing communications networking and IT applications for the air transport industry. Work has covered every aspect of the business, from sensitive financial documents, annual reports and CXO keynote speeches to definition of marketing document hierarchy, company style guide and complete range of collateral; from researching and writing the company’s history to writing and co-producing a corporate DVD.

PUBLICATIONS
‘Media and new technology: can the digital revolution boost the impact of African media on development and governance?’ Briefing paper for Development, Governance and the Media conference, London School of Economics/POLIS, March 2007.

‘Maitland+20: Fixing the Missing Link’. Editor and publisher. 2005. Accepted for distribution at UN World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis 2005; adopted as part of official government, business and civil society delegate documentation at Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, Malta 2005. Translated into Japanese.

‘The Soul of the Corporation’. Chapter In ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: Corporate Governance of the 21st Century’. Published 2005 by the International Bar Association/Kluwer Publishing.

‘The euro: seize the opportunities for your company’. A guide for small businesses in UK, Sweden, Denmark and Greece. Published 1999 by the Association for the Monetary Union of Europe. Translated into Swedish.

‘Effective Corporate Communications’. Published 1988 by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

TRANSLATIONS
Quality assurance section (30,000+ words) of contract between Saudi Royal Navy and NAVFCO (Navy branch of French government organisation Défense Conseil International, specialising in training and technical assistance for foreign navies).

English text for guidebook ‘La Vieille Charité de Marseille’, published by Edisud.

‘Interpreting the results of a discriminant factorial analysis’, original written by R. Tomassone. Published by Institut Technique des Céréales et des Fourrages.