Simon Spencer

Creative internal communication professional and leader helping businesses deliver on their financial, operational and employee engagement objectives. Wide range of experience, including FTSE 100, small and medium sized enterprises, family-owned, charity, start-up and companies in administration. Trusted partner supporting large scale organisational and cultural change programmes.

• Proven leadership skills building and managing high performing internal communication teams and being part of senior leadership teams, helping organisations meet their goals
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and collaboration skills at all levels
• Develop and implement creative communication strategies that engage people and provide them with clear direction
• Creative writing - skilled in creating an organisation’s story and consistent, simple, joined-up messaging that connects people to the organisation’s vision, strategy and values
• Coaching leadership teams to become more visible, authentic and effective communicators
• Robust measurement and insight to drive communication effectiveness
• Developing and implementing innovative channels utilising technology to meet the challenge of communicating with a wide range of audiences - office based, multi-site, field-based teams
• Change management – providing internal communication support for large scale organisational and cultural change programmes
• Event management
• Specific experience working in highly unionised businesses, helping to create a strong employee relations culture through effective communication

CIPD qualified with Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management