COMMUNITY PROFILE



Kevin Murray

Chairman - Public Relations

Chime Communications plc

Kevin is Chairman of the UK's leading brand building communications and CSR consultancy, The Good Relations Group. The Group is part of Chime Communications Plc and comprises well-known brands such as Corporate Citizenship, Good Relations, Harvard and InEvidence. It employs 200 people serving 300 clients in the UK and internationally.

He is also most recently author of a new book entitled: The Language of Leaders. The book - the result of more than 60 in depth interviews with the Chairmen and CEO's of some of the world's leading businesses and charities examines - how leaders communicate to inspire, influence and achieve results. Available in Waterstones, WHSmith, on Amazon and on iTunes. The Language of Leaders has received much acclaim from the literary, and leadership worlds, alike.

Good Relations Group companies help clients to deliver trusted brands and great relationships. They provide reputation management, crisis and issues management, political communications, employee communications and Corporate Social Responsibility programmes. They also deliver Government, public sector, B2B and consumer public relations, across a wide range of sectors. Key clients include Airbus, HP, Fujitsu, Unilever, Blackberry, BSkyB and Vodafone.

As a consultant, Kevin specialises in the field of strategic communications and reputation management, and leadership communications coaching. He has years of experience advising chairmenand chief executives, as well as directors of communication and marketing. He also has considerable experience in managing complex and global communications projects and departments.

He works with clients such as BSkyB, G4S (the world's biggest security company), Gazprom and Airbus. In the past, he has worked with Lloyds TSB, McLaren F1, British Nucleur Fuels, Emirates Airline, 118118, Marconi, Vauxhall, British Gas, Permira, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Adobe, and Allen & Overy, in nearly every case at CEO or Chairman level.

He has managed significant issues and crisis communications in the heat of controversies in the chemicals, nuclear, aviation and banking sectors, to name but a few. Previously he was the Director of Communications for British Airways and, before that, Director of Corporate Affairs for AEA Technology, the business that was floated off from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Prior to AEA, Kevin was Group Public Relations Manager for Bayer companies in the UK. Bayer is one of the world's major chemicals-to-pharmaceuticals companies.

He is also a former national newspaper journalist, magazine publisher and marketing director, having started his career as a crime reporter on The Star newspaper in Johannesburg. Kevin is also an enthusiastic husband, father and grandfather, a mad keen golfer, a theatre-goer, film-watcher, traveller, TV watcher, book reader and story teller.

 

 


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