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Communications that earns its place at the leadership table.

A flagship engagement, an ongoing retainer, and nine standalone disciplines, scoped to where the business actually needs to move.

Is This a Fit?

We're a strong fit if:

You are a founder or CEO in technology, property, financial services or consumer scaling past your current communications.
You need strategic architecture, not just someone to issue press releases.
You want a fixed-scope, fixed-timeline roadmap rather than an open-ended retainer from day one.

Our Core Disciplines

Each discipline is available as a standalone engagement for businesses that need to build one capability rather than the whole function.

Build and Position

The Flagship Engagement

The 90-Day Sprint

A fixed scope, a fixed term, senior counsel without a retainer.

Most businesses don't yet know exactly what their communications function needs to look like, they just know it isn't working. The Sprint answers that question properly, with senior counsel, before you commit to a permanent hire, a long retainer, or a structure that might be wrong. You get clarity and a working function fast, then decide what continuity looks like from a position of knowledge, not guesswork.

A communications function built fast: audit, foundations and resourcing plan. We start with a full audit, understanding the business, the stakeholders and what is already working. From there we build the foundations: positioning, architecture, messaging and crisis protocols. And where the function needs people, we design the resourcing plan, giving you clarity on the roles you need and how the team should be structured. Delivered, embedded and ready to execute by day 90.

Audit. Build. Resource. Ready to execute. In 90 days.

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What Comes Next

After the Sprint

Many businesses choose to continue with ongoing senior counsel once the foundations are built, embedding the strategy, advising leadership, and evolving the function as the business grows. Available as a flexible monthly retainer, scoped to your needs.

The Sprint builds it. The retainer keeps it sharp.

Positioning

For businesses whose narrative has not kept pace with their growth. We audit how you are currently perceived, define how you need to be positioned, and build the messaging framework that holds across markets, audiences and channels. Clear, defensible, and directly connected to your commercial objectives.

The foundation everything else is built on.

Communications Architecture

For businesses building or rebuilding their communications function. We design the infrastructure: team structure, workflows, approval frameworks, editorial standards, channel strategy and measurement. Built to scale with the business, not against it.

Governance that protects operational speed as you scale.

Investor & Funding Communications

For founders raising capital. We build the narrative, the materials and the media strategy that gives investors confidence, positioning the business, the team and the opportunity with the same rigour we bring to established brands.

The story that gets the round closed.

Protect and Align

Crisis Communications, Advisory and Set-Up

For businesses that want to be ready before the crisis arrives. We build the frameworks, the protocols, the response playbooks and the training that means your business can act with speed, clarity and confidence when it matters most. We also provide ongoing advisory for businesses navigating live reputation challenges.

Preparation is the only crisis strategy that works.

Stakeholder Engagement

For businesses managing complex relationships across government, regulators, partners, investors and internal teams. We build the engagement strategy and the communications that align stakeholders behind a single narrative, particularly critical during market entry, regulatory change or organisational transformation.

Alignment is a communications discipline, not an accident.

Internal Communications & Change

For businesses going through growth, restructuring or change. We build the internal narrative and communications infrastructure that keeps teams aligned, informed and engaged, turning organisational change from a risk into a moment that builds culture rather than erodes it.

The story your own people hear matters as much as the one the world does.

Grow and Attract

Media Relations

For businesses that need to earn the right media attention. We build and manage the media strategy, the press relationships and the story pipeline that delivers consistent, high-quality coverage in the outlets that matter to your audiences, including how your brand shows up in AI-generated search results and summaries. Proactive, not reactive.

Coverage that builds credibility over time.

Media Training

For leaders who need to own a room, a camera or a press conference. We prepare executives and spokespeople for broadcast interviews, press briefings, panel appearances and crisis scenarios, building the confidence, the technique and the message discipline to perform under pressure.

Because how you say it matters as much as what you say.

Employer Brand & Talent Communications

For businesses competing for talent in crowded markets. We build the employer narrative, the content and the positioning that makes the right people want to work for you, before a single job is ever posted.

Winning the industry narrative to reduce your time-to-hire.

Case Studies

Proven Impact

Drawn from twenty years of senior in-house and advisory experience, the foundation Poise Strategies is built on. Anonymised to respect client confidentiality.

Communications Architecture

Global Fintech Platform

Built a global communications function from scratch across 20+ markets.

Crisis Communications

Consumer Fintech Platform

Held narrative control through a national regulatory and media storm.

Stakeholder Engagement

Fintech Scale-Up

Led a founder-to-CEO transition with zero destabilising attrition.

Media Relations

National Public Safety Initiative

An award-winning campaign that changed the national conversation.

Stakeholder Engagement

Property Developer

Secured planning permission against an unfriendly council and active local opposition.