What do people say about my work?

"Emma is an accomplished leader in public affairs and thought leadership. She’s crafted strategies that help to position the organisation as a force for good in education, and then delivered campaigns that support those strategies. She can help a brand to play to its strengths, shine a spotlight on a critical issue, and support business goals. In Emma, you have a well-rounded, experienced and inspiring communications professional, who is also great fun to work alongside!"

"Emma is really easy to work with and has great ideas and insights. She is generous in sharing these with us and very supportive in helping to guide us on our journey. We are looking to grow our communications activity and Emma's knowledge and expertise has proven invaluable."

"I recommend Emma highly. She supported me in the recruitment of two communications positions, as well as reviewing our structure and roles.
Emma was professional, straightforward and experienced - easy to work with and reliable. She delivered incredibly useful outputs for us.
Most importantly, Emma helped me navigate and build our comms team to a really good place, as well as giving insightful recommendations for the future. I would not hesitate in recommending her."

“Emma led the PR on our wellbeing thought leadership campaign, and we were thrilled to have been supported by her expertise on this.

In the past we’ve struggled to successfully integrate PR into our marketing plans, but Emma worked effortlessly with our team to understand our needs and deliver our PR vision. Emma, thank you for putting us in such a good position to champion the issue of wellbeing in the classroom, and we look forward to working with you on many more projects in the future!“  

"Emma Duke is a brilliant trainer. I hired Emma to conduct some training for a programme team. Her services were both effective and affordable, which is crucial when working with limited budgets.

In addition, Emma is personable, approachable and always professional - while never losing sight of the very human qualities that impact how we communicate with one another. I would have no problem recommending Emma as a speaker at an event or as a trainer."

"We commissioned Emma to undertake a fairly complex piece of work across multiple teams to map, review and make recommendations on business critical applicant communications.

Although Emma was working with us as an external consultant, she did a great job of engaging with a wide range of internal stakeholders, identifying issues and cross-team dynamics, and bringing us together to work on our future directions.

The outputs and recommendations Emma produced have made a significant difference to how we work in this space, and gave us practical steps to take forward. I'd highly recommend Emma."

"I really value working with Emma. Her training style is so engaging and our delegates really appreciate the specialist insights she brings from her extensive experience. She's down-to-earth, delivering practical tips and observations that resonate with people from the PR industry - and beyond! Would absolutely recommend!"

"I will always be in awe of the calm and professional way Emma helped with a communications crisis at an organisation that I have links with. She quickly grasped the situation we were facing, gave clear advice and coached us through options, helping us to implement an effective plan of action. If you're facing a situation that would benefit from startlingly competent communications expertise, then I can't recommend Emma highly enough."

"Emma is a demonstrably talented communications expert, she has supported me and my organisation with tricky internal and external communications, as well as helping us to think and strategise about our future comms goals.

She is keen to understand the culture and approach we're looking for and factors her advice accordingly, she listens to truly understand which is a rare and beautiful quality.

To me personally she has been incredibly generous with her time and skills, she has sat with me to explore potential ideas and brought in her own thoughts and expertise. She has supported us to review our organisational strategy and brought excellent input both into our direction of travel and the steps required to get us there.

Throughout many of our larger meetings she has held a facilitation role and expertly leads a room, quickly understanding the interpersonal dynamics to ensure everyone feels valued and has their creativity brought to the fore.

Most importantly, she is a wonderfully warm, kind, generous and creative person who it is an absolute pleasure to feel supported by."