PREPAREDNESS. RESILIENCE. PERFORMANCE.
Rod Cartwright Consulting has a simple mission:
To enhance human preparedness, organisational resilience and business performance.
We specialise in issues & crisis preparedness, crisis & reputation management and facilitated learning.
Are You Really Ready?
We want to discuss how we can help your organisation or your clients be better prepared for the only constant …
Change.
Our work is centred on three inter-related areas:
Issues & Crisis Preparedness
issues & crisis preparedness
Boards and investors are placing a premium on systematic risk assessment and measurable risk management like never before. Driven by the reputational challenges of the 2020s and the rise of ESG, we have built MATCH FIT®- a new crisis communication system and crisis preparedness model.
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Crisis & Reputation Management
Crisis & reputation management
A reputational crisis can feel like the end of the world. In reality, it is only ever a turning point. Our approach to live-fire crisis communication and reputation management draws on 25 years of front line, international crisis experience.
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Facilitated Learning & Training
fACILITATED lEARNING & tRAINING
In a world of constant flux, communication systems and processes, alone, are not enough. We deliver a range of facilitated learning modules, designed to enhance your teams’ personal and collective confidence, agility, resilience and performance.
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Rod Cartwright
Rod Cartwright offers the advisory experience, expertise and instinct gathered from a 30-year career in global PR agencies. His international leadership positions for recognised market leaders have included Global partner and Global Corporate Practice Director at Ketchum, and EMEA Regional Director at Text100.
Working across continents, cultures and industries, he has counselled corporations, public bodies, charities and industry associations on their reputation, relationships and resilience. He has experienced, from the front line, global news events such as the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines’ MH370 and the airline's restructuring.
A passionate industry contributor and advocate, Rod was a first-wave Fellow and decade-long Board member of the PRCA, Deputy Chair of the PRCA's Global COVID-19 Communications Taskforce and an active member of the ICCO/PRCA Ukraine Communications Support Network. He is now Special Advisor to the CIPR’s Crisis Communication Network and a Visiting Fellow at Cardiff University’s Centre for the Media & Public Communication.
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“Rod is a master of his craft and a world-class trainer. I can’t recommend him strongly enough.”
Who We Support
Organisations large and small put their trust in us. Here are a few examples:
Sanofi, Ikea, Nomad Foods, CVC Capital, ActionAid UK, The British Council, Baxi, SAP Concur, Healthcare Communications Association, IEMA, PRCA, The Institute of Leadership & Management, International SOS
“Rod is an absolutely first rate communication consultant and business partner. He is thoughtful and creative, yet grounded in the reality of ‘getting things done’.”
“In 35 years leading PR agencies, I have worked with few colleagues of greater ability, insight or integrity.”