Mandy Pearse, FCIPR, is an award wining public relations and marketing consultant with over 30 years industry experience. She has helped public, private and third sector organisations manage their corporate reputation through periods of major change.
Mandy is a Fellow of the CIPR and a Chartered PR practitioner as well as a Chartered Marketer. She served as CIPR President in 2021 and as a Board member for CIPR and for the Global Alliance for Public Relations.
Starting her career as a market researcher she moved into services marketing in the public sector before developing her career in corporate public relations in-house and then moving into consultancy. She regularly undertakes major pieces of research on behalf of clients covering both quantitive and qualitative work as well as leading the CIPR’s Research Panel and delivering training in research methods.
She is a respected trainer delivering courses and workshops to both PR professionals and professionals in other disciplines covering writing, presentation, strategy, campaigns, stakeholder engagement, and social media.
A well-known speaker she has delivered speeches, presentations and appeared on panels at major UK and international conferences. She has judged numerous UK and international awards, regularly speaks to students about PR as a career, has helped Universities develop their PR courses and is a passionate advocate for the profession.