I am the Founding Director of Strangé Consulting - a 100% black and women-owned (BWO) boutique PR Agency that provides specialised services that include: Media Relations, Corporate Communications, Media Training, Freelance Writing: Storytelling and Content Development as well as Reputation Management with a focus on corporate, sponsorship and community development projects.
I have over 20-years' experience working in the PR, Media & Communications fields. I have over the years held various management positions in corporates that include most notable: my recent position as MD of The GrindPR where I successfully executed the mandate of creating and implementing a turn-around business strategy for a sponsorship & corporate PR agency to ensure stability, consistency in the delivery of quality services and profitability.
Before then, I was Head of Communications at Business Connexion (BCX), the PR Manager for Sponsorships at MTN SA looking after Sponsorship Propertities that included: Football, Cycling, Cricket, Music & Lifestyle. I have also worked in the financial sector in organisations that included the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) & Absa. My areas of speciality in PR/Corporate Communications space include:
? PR Strategy & Planning; Media Publicity & External Communications, Media Relations & Engagements and Media Training/Coaching.
? Internal Communications & Employee Relations/Engagement; Stakeholder Relations & Engagement.
? Thought Leadership & Personal Brand/Leadership Profiling, Freelance Writing: Content Development & Storytelling.
? Issue, Crisis and Reputation Management, Investor Relations for JSE-Listed Companies.
? Measurement: Reporting, Analysis and Monitoring.
Some of Strangé Consulting's PR clients that I has worked with over the 10 years include:
? Yekani Manufacturing; Afrovation Technology; Kingmaker Consulting - CoJ, SSETA & Botswana-based Mining Co.- BCL Ltd; FCB Redline: IDC;
? Global Interface: Eskom. Platco Digital: OpenView HD (OVHD); Telcolink - Cisco; PrideLife Group, DarkChild Production and TYME Bank.
In my early years of working, I started off as writer for a communications consultancy specialising in the IT industry and wrote for clients that included Progress Software, MGX, Scantec, Datacentrix, Unisys, to name but a few.
Memberships: African Media Forum (AMF) - a group of over 250 journalists, news editors, communication specialists in SA, rest of Africa & beyond; the Media Group (Gauteng) with 100+ media; Media & Soweto Press Club (50+ members) and the Border-Kei Chamber of Business (BKCOB).
