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Working with Amanda on our crisis exercise was a turning point for our organisation. The scenario she designed was challenging, realistic, and pushed us to confront gaps. When we later faced a real‑world incident, the confidence, clarity, and understanding we’d built through her training made all the difference. Her emphasis on candour, empathy, and practical decision‑making shaped our response and helped us. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Amanda to any organisation serious about strengthening its crisis readiness.

Large business

Amanda has delivered a series of highly impactful communications training sessions for Sussex LRF partners, including the design and facilitation of a live social media simulation as part of a multi-agency exercise. Her sessions cover critical and timely themes such as crisis communications, handling mis, dis, and mal-information, cultural intelligence, and navigating the communications challenges associated with public inquiries.

 Amanda’s delivery is consistently informative, engaging and interactive, translating complex communications challenges into practical, real-world learning for responders. Her sessions are not only engaging and informative but also accessible and inclusive, and they are consistently among the most well attended and positively evaluated within our programme. 

We are delighted to be working in partnership with Amanda and value her expertise, insight and good humour, which greatly enhance the learning experience for participants. We look forward to continuing this collaboration and working with her again in 2026 as part of our ongoing commitment to strengthening crisis communications capability across the partnership.

Local Resilience Forum (LRF)

Amanda’s media training combines strategic clarity with human insight – the qualities modern communicators truly need. She goes beyond teaching techniques, building confidence, sharpening judgment, and equipping participants to handle interviews with candour and composure. Her sessions are practical, energising, and grounded in real-world crisis experience, leaving attendees not only better prepared but empowered to represent their organisation with integrity.

From a University

This pandemic has thrown up challenges on a scale previously unseen or experienced even for seasoned crisis management experts. I therefore approached Amanda to help us with our communications recovery plan as it was difficult to see the wood through the trees. I had read Amanda’s book and liked her people centred approach and wider methodology to crisis communications and recovery.

Following a 15-minute call, which Amanda has titled her ‘Think Through Brew’, Amanda and I identified that the best approach was an afternoon workshop with my senior communications team to work through the steps required to develop our comms recovery plan.

Amanda is very relatable and authentic as well as knowledgeable. We all enjoyed the workshop as well as learning a lot from it. It helped give us the confidence to move forward and I am very happy with the outcome.

I would not hesitate to recommend anyone looking for a true professional to guide their team, who is also a great person to work with.

Head of Comms, National Business

While working in a role as the sole communications professional, it was fantastic to count on Amanda’s support and advice.  I found our discussions really helpful and benefited from her extensive experience.

Communications Manager based in Europe

Amanda ran a lively, thought-provoking and informative session that was useful for all members of my team, from junior officers to those of us who like to think we know what we’re doing! The practical session in the afternoon was particularly beneficial, with the software mimicking real-life conditions better than any exercise I’ve done before, allowing us to gain hands-on experience for newer members of the team while simultaneously stress testing our existing crisis comms plans and identifying areas for improvement.

Head of Comms, UK Charity

Thank you for the presentation and for a great training day yesterday – we all enjoyed it so much and we’ve taken lots away to think about.

Communication Manager, Health

As a key responder to the COVID pandemic, the communications response of our organisation, both internal and external was of paramount importance. Six months into the crisis, Amanda facilitated a debrief for the communications team in order to establish key learning from the work so far. The day was extremely positive in that it not only highlighted the substantial work undertaken by the team but also key learning that has enabled improvements to the ongoing response. Amanda’s role was pivotal in this as she was able to use her knowledge and expertise to generate discussion, provoke ideas and challenge thinking which has resulted in the function being able to make some significant progress despite the challenging times.

Head of comms, UK Government agency