Kevin K.

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Volunteer Experience

  • World Wildlife Fund Graphic

    Mentor to senior UK communications professional

    World Wildlife Fund

    - 3 years

    Environment

    Act as a mentor offering coaching and consultation on issues ranging from brand strategy and positioning, engaging staff in the brand, and operational considerations to internal communications and influencing leadership. A longstanding relationship which is mutually rewarding and an absolute pleasure .... and challenge.

  • Mentor - Pursue Your Passions

    University of Montana

    Mentored marketing students nearing graduation to help in understanding how to approach job search, agencies vs in house roles, professionalism and standards/expectations, making decisions and life in the profession in general.

  • Strategic communication support

    Project South

    - Present 4 years 7 months

    Poverty Alleviation

    Supported a colleague and former client to deliver enhanced brand, messaging and mission delivery for this remarkable social enterprise - https://projectsouth.org/ .

    Project South was founded as the Institute to Eliminate Poverty & Genocide in 1986. Its work is rooted in the legacy of the Southern Freedom Movement, and four primary work areas achieve their mission of cultivating strong social movements in the South powerful enough to contend with some of the most pressing and complicated…

    Supported a colleague and former client to deliver enhanced brand, messaging and mission delivery for this remarkable social enterprise - https://projectsouth.org/ .

    Project South was founded as the Institute to Eliminate Poverty & Genocide in 1986. Its work is rooted in the legacy of the Southern Freedom Movement, and four primary work areas achieve their mission of cultivating strong social movements in the South powerful enough to contend with some of the most pressing and complicated social, economic, and political problems we face today.

  • Advisory Board Member

    INVDP Digtal

    - Present 10 years 2 months

    Science and Technology

    Advisory Board for a business specialising in custom web and mobile app solutions, UX design and marketing. See https://invdp.com/

Publications

  • Brand & Talent

    Kogan Page

    This book looks that the intersection of brand strategy and talent acquisition/engagement as two sides of the same coin in driving organizational effectiveness and achieving their purpose. Translated and published in China 2016.

    See publication
  • The Talent Journey: The 55-Minute Guide to Employee Communications

    Verb Publishing Ltd.

    A short, sharp review of everything you need to know about the overlap of brand, talent and employee engagement.

    "The title of this book could have been `no B.S.' Kevin has chosen to give a simple, insightful guide to employee communication. He has the incredible talent of making complex things simple to understand and suggesting solutions that are easy to implement and very effective. Everyone should read it."
    MAURICE LEVY, CHAIRMAN AND CEO - PUBLICIS GROUPE

    "There are two…

    A short, sharp review of everything you need to know about the overlap of brand, talent and employee engagement.

    "The title of this book could have been `no B.S.' Kevin has chosen to give a simple, insightful guide to employee communication. He has the incredible talent of making complex things simple to understand and suggesting solutions that are easy to implement and very effective. Everyone should read it."
    MAURICE LEVY, CHAIRMAN AND CEO - PUBLICIS GROUPE

    "There are two types of people - those who make simple things complex, and those who make complex things simple. I was told to love the latter. As such I love THE TALENT JOURNEY. It gets you thinking, it doesn't preach or prescribe, it's adaptable. Useful for any CEO, or those working with a CEO, who realise the value of an engaged, active work force, living out brand values."
    SIMON FRANCIS, CEO - SAATCHI & SAATCHI EMEA

    "This is a great book that serves as an excellent reminder of all the things you know you should be doing as an internal communicator, but sometimes forget to do so. An inspiring and entertaining read."
    LOUISE STURGESS, HEAD OF INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS - GOOGLE EUROPE

    "An informal yet informative view on employee communications which simplifies an often complex journey into digestible, bite-size chunks. A must-read for experts and novices alike."
    STEPHEN MULVENNA, TALENT MANAGER - THE COCA-COLA COMPANY EUROPE

    "A bracing antidote to most of what's written on `employee engagement', full of common sense, and bang up-to-date."
    ROBERT JONES, HEAD OF NEW THINKING - WOLFF OLINS

    "Simple but inciteful. A great reminder of what happens when you strip away what you don't need and focus on what you do."
    PETER BELL, GLOBAL CEO, BRAND ENGAGEMENT - THE BRAND UNION

    "It really does what it says on the tin: the Swiss Army Knife of employee engagement thinking. Simple, insightful and readable in a single sitting."
    MARC WRIGHT, PUBLISHER - SIMPLY-COMMUNICATE

    See publication
  • Gower Handbook of Internal Communication

    Gower

    Wrote chapter on "Advanced Employee Engagement" for this respected publication.

    See publication

Projects

  • RECENT & CURRENT PROJECTS

    Go to market strategies and positioning for

    + AI, GenAI, analytics, data operations
    + HCaaS
    + cloud services
    + pre- and post-merger intergration communications, engagement, value proposition
    +employer branding for global data company
    +purpose-driven vision, mission, values for a financial services company ahead of major strategic shift
    +internal/external brand launch for government agency following restatement of vision, values, positioning
    +reframe vision, mission,…

    Go to market strategies and positioning for

    + AI, GenAI, analytics, data operations
    + HCaaS
    + cloud services
    + pre- and post-merger intergration communications, engagement, value proposition
    +employer branding for global data company
    +purpose-driven vision, mission, values for a financial services company ahead of major strategic shift
    +internal/external brand launch for government agency following restatement of vision, values, positioning
    +reframe vision, mission, values for quasi-governmental entity
    +technology alliance positioning and messaging
    +service transformation re-vamp for global organization
    + internal engagement in global knowledge management services for Big 4 firm

  • EY - Employer Value Proposition

    - Present

    Worked closely with the global people leader and team and led the agency-side team in developing EY's employer value proposition.

    See project
  • Internal brand engagement for rebrand of global agency group

    Led the internal agency team on an interactive and engaging program around the rebrand/integration of a large global network - MSLGROUP ("Together works better").

    See project
  • LCP rebrand

    Co-led the rebrand of this mid-sized European consultancy.

    See project
  • Leadership alignment and Internal engagement in global organizational transformation

    Led the agency-side team and worked with the senior leadership team to drive messaging and communication around a global professional services firm's transformation to a service center model in IT, HR, Finance, Procurement, etc.

  • Right First Time - Openreach organizational change and engagement

    Led the agency-side team in working with BT Openreach in engaging its people in a major transformation initiative called Right First Time.

    See project
  • Brand refresh - Linedata

    - Present

    Led the agency-side team and worked closely with the board on the brand refresh for this French-based, global financial SaaS company.

    See project
  • KPMG - Global Opportunities

    Co-led the re-invigoration of internal communication and engagement efforts around KPMG's global mobility program (GO).

  • Brand and vision - LECG

    Led the agency-side team to develop the Red Dot award winning brand refresh/brand theme, vision and values for LECG (now part of FTI Consulting). Included internal engagement efforts.

  • Syngenta employer brand

    Co-led development of global employer brand (* our work matters).

    See project
  • Branding and engagement - Learning and Skills Council "Train to Gain"

    Led the multi-agency side team in external branding and organizational engagement efforts around this initiative to improve UK capabilities in non-vocational skills.

    See project
  • Go-to-market and sales enablement

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    Developed 40+ go-to-market / sales enablement strategy playbooks ("operating systems") for business critical service offerings spanning a range of businesses at Deloitte and Deloitte Digital and Workday, industries and buyers. Revenue targets ranging from $10M to $10B+

  • Global rebrand - EY (Building a better working world)

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    Led the agency-side team working with the global executive team at EY in building the purpose-led rebranding of Ernst & Young.

    See project
  • Coca-Cola Enterprises Employer Brand

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    Led the agency-side team in developing an employer brand for CCE in Europe.

    See project
  • The Coca-Cola Company (Europe, Greater China) employer brand

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    Led the agency-side team in developing the employer brand ("What's your secret formula?") for Europe and for Greater China.

    See project
  • Deloitte Operate

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    Led agency-side on strategic concept, go-to-market messaging broadly captured in this infographic.

  • Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) - now Digital Workplace Group

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    Co-founded and helped build the world's leading intranet benchmarking organization. Converted new members, developed core methodologies and conducted UX and usability evaluations for a range of FT100 members. Presented trends and insights at quarterly member meetings.

  • Positioning strategy for global organization's D&I / Womens' Agenda efforts

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    Led the agency-side team and worked closely with ad agency to develop an umbrella approach and creative idea for this global organization's efforts to drive awareness and progress around diversity, equity, inclusiveness focusing on women's' issues

  • Verb Publishing - home of The 55-Minute Guide Series

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    Built a profitable online print-on-demand retailer of specialist titles on business strategy and organizational change/communication/digital transformation and cultural issues. Premise was based on delivering more insights per minute with titles that can be consumed within a single commute or short plane flight - all you need to know on a key topic. Pitched at C-level executives and those needing to quickly get to grips with a specialist area of expertise. Titles have been licensed to MBA…

    Built a profitable online print-on-demand retailer of specialist titles on business strategy and organizational change/communication/digital transformation and cultural issues. Premise was based on delivering more insights per minute with titles that can be consumed within a single commute or short plane flight - all you need to know on a key topic. Pitched at C-level executives and those needing to quickly get to grips with a specialist area of expertise. Titles have been licensed to MBA programs and are used in several University courses around the world.

    See project

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

  • Russian

    Elementary proficiency

  • Swedish

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • FRSA

    Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) (UK)

  • Institute of Internal Communications (IoC)

    Fellow

  • International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)

    Accredited Business Communicator (ABC), Blue Ribbon Panelist, former UK Board Member

  • User Experience Professionals' Association (UX UPA)

    Founder and First President of UK Chapter

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