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Hosted by Vicki Marinker · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 34 episodes
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Don't Shoot The Messenger is a podcast by Vicki Marinker, bringing you interesting conversations about careers in communications. Vicki talks with experts in PR, corporate communications, internal comms and more - discussing everything from starting a career in comms, to managing a full-scale corporate crisis. This is the podcast for you, if you want to get ahead in communications.
Vicki Marinker hosts Don't Shoot The Messenger, a business show with 34 episodes published.
How do you secure a job share role, and once in, how do you make it work? In this episode, two guests join us to share their experiences of job sharing. Will McDonald and Natasha Liedl-McDowall took different routes into
Jo Coxhill is on a mission to make work not suck. An expert in employee experience, organisational culture and internal communication, Jo helps companies boost performance and build happier, healthier, more engaged teams
Here's the latest 'Job Search SOS' episode. I'm back with Lucy Cairncross, MD of VMA GROUP to tackle the questions keeping job seekers up at night. This episode is packed with straight-talking advice on: 📣 Cover letters
This week I’m bringing you another Job Search SOS episode, a recording of a Q&A webinar I ran in mid January 2025, with Lucy Cairncross. the MD of VMA Group, the recruitment specialist for communications, marketing, digi
Nessa O'Gorman is a global product and marketing strategist who has had several career pivots. From an early career as an interpreter, she moved into marketing and product development, launching Expedia's first loyalty p
Lucy Cairncross is the MD of VMA GROUP, the specialist marketing and communications recruitment and executive search firm. In this special episode of the podcast, I'm bringing you a recording of a Q&A session Lucy and I
Louisa Houghton is Head of Communications at VMO2 Business. She is a storyteller and writer at her core. And having worked in the fast-paced world of telecoms for most of her career, she has experienced the speed of chan
Nicole Bearne had a fascinating communications career in Formula 1 and is now a board director at Motorsport UK, and an employee experience consultant. Working in an organisation with such big budgets and high profile ha
Shan Chatoo calls herself a communications warrior. Alongside her work as a comms professional, she now combines the skill she’s developed in communication, with her passion for weights, to empower women to build mental
Polly Evans oversees UK audio production for the world’s largest interactive audio platform for kids. She started her career at the BBC, moving into reporting and becoming a TV news anchor. This episode is about a life a
We're back with series 3, and starting strong with internal communications consultant Olivia Lawson. Olivia's career has had several twists and turns, and a couple of sliding doors moments. In this episode we talk about:
In this, the last episode of series 2, I talk with Jenni Field, business strategist, author, podcaster and founder of Redefining Communications. We cover a lot of ground in this episode, including corporate culture, the
In this episode I talk with Tony Stewart, Head of digital at scarlettabott and self-confessed digital geek, about how to get your digital strategy right in a Covid world. We discuss: 📣 The 7 fundamental pillars on which
In this episode, I talk with Robbie Sommerville, Director of ESG Communications at Credit Suisse about the impact of COP26 and the evolution of environment and social issues in different regions. We discuss: 📣 The impac
In this episode I talk with Sheena Thomson, an expert in international relations, reputation and crisis management, who started her communications career with the Royal Navy, about what the corporate world can learn from
In this episode I talk with Sam Bleazard, Employee Communications and Engagement Lead at Fortnum & Mason about the unique challenge of working in retail communications We discuss: 📣 The challenge of working strategicall
In this first episode of the second series, I talk with Kim England, VP of Global Employee Communications at Pearson, a self-confessed tech geek who is passionate about collaboration and community, about using technology
In this, the last episode of series one, I talk with Rachel Miller, consultant, trainer, podcaster, and a recognised authority on internal communication, about the challenges internal communicators face to rebuild collab
In this episode of the podcast, I talk with Vicki DeBlasi, who specialises in PR and marketing for innovation and technology projects. We’re talking about the unique challenge of working on projects that have the potenti
In this episode of the podcast, I talk with Neil Henderson, a corporate communications director, whose earlier career was in broadcast journalism for the major TV networks. We discuss: ⭐️ The assumptions journalists make
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Don't Shoot The Messenger is hosted by Vicki Marinker. The show is categorised under business (careers) and has published 34 episodes.
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