Barilaro and the cultural drift towards ‘what I can get away with’: he and Stuart Ayres may have gone into NSW politics with the noblest…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 16, 2022
How important is it for leaders to effectively communicate a pathway? That’s particularly hard in the current uncertain economic environment. It was the same at…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 6, 2022
I work hard to gain a journalist’s trust. And I find that generally that trust is reciprocated. Like any relationship, there’s a learned contract –…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 4, 2022
Will his communication skills hold him up or tear him down? We learn a lot about communications by watching politicians. Scott Morrison was initially hailed…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 1, 2022
For businesses, LinkedIn is currently the single most interesting digital platform on the internet. Why? Because right at this moment, there is a remarkable arbitrage of organic…
Isabella DuganOctober 28, 2021
The Coalition’s net zero target for 2050 was a long time coming and should (certainly no guarantees) save the Prime Minister major embarrassment at the…
Nick AlbrowOctober 26, 2021
Thomas Friedman's view on the appalling situation in Afghanistan provides valuable insights. Besides his piece below is an earlier useful piece on 'the morning after…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 22, 2021
Time to leave your job? Pick your reason: · Bad bosses · Rotten culture; my values are different · Burn out; made worse by the pandemic · Too long…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 19, 2021
Crisis PR: Lockdowns. Feeling unmoored? Struggling with work/life balance? This crisis requires personal analysis. If you had, pre-pandemic, cleverly separated work and home, then it’s…
Mark JayAugust 18, 2021
Guidance Please, from Canberra. For a reason that is unclear to me, the PM is unwilling to lead with clear guidance on vaccinations in the…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 15, 2021
Is Australia about to become a global ‘badboy’ on Climate Change? With an election in 2022, Scott Morrison says he and Barnaby Joyce are coming…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2021
And should the Federal Parliament, realistically, be guiding us on cultural issues, or is that outside its remit? In which case was the Prime Minister…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 9, 2021
We’re watching the radical disruption of journalism. Is the PR sector missing an opportunity? Disruption creates opportunity, and the lazy person’s option is to simply…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 4, 2021
Is vaccination going to be a requirement before going back to the office? If not, should it be? Are some people going be to denied…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 30, 2021
Investing in #sustainability, its legitimacy, its reputation, is one of the next big corporate affairs challenges. The trend is massive and also rife with 'greenwashing'. The…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 28, 2021
Most advanced economies are now rapidly making the change to electric vehicles. For instance, the EU has just announced what is effectively a ban on…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 26, 2021
In the second part of this interview, the current Global Chair of Aurecon and strategic advisor to Ashurst lawyers - explains to Peter Wilkinson and Liam Cox how he, working with CEO William…
Peter WilkinsonMay 3, 2021
In 2004, with Giam Swiegers as the CEO of Deloitte, the company was ‘fast losing its membership of the Big Four’, according to the AFR, a…
Peter WilkinsonApril 22, 2021
Jodie Fox on repairing workplace culture. The Canberra scandals have been met with outrage and shock. What can we learn, practically, about responding to sexual or…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 25, 2021
The Royal Commission has delivered 148 recommendations. Kasy is Executive Director at Anglicare Australia and joins Peter Wilkinson and Liam Cox to discuss the importance of better comms to…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 3, 2021
Brittany Higgins, a Liberal Party staffer has again highlighted the terrible culture in the Federal Parliament, with disturbing allegations that she was raped in a…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 20, 2021
What can we learn from the crises in 2020. We focus on three, with four main learnings for leaders and corporate affairs folk: - Rio…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 18, 2020
Communication is the most complex leadership skill – and getting more complex. We rightly have high expectations. CEOs, directors and corporate affairs folks can learn…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 9, 2020
Joe and Jill Biden, and Kamala Harris, have the potential to take the heat out of the division in the US that's been such a…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 12, 2020
We learn a lot about good and bad corporate communications by watching politicians. This week it's been Gladys Berejiklian's struggle explaining her intimate relationship with…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 14, 2020
What have we learnt about working from home? The Australian fantasy - working at the beach - may now, for many, be a reality! Being…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 28, 2020
There's a lot to be learnt from apologies that fail. Apologies are now so common, the public can mostly discern what's genuine. To be perceived…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 3, 2020
Kylie Moore-Gilbert is still in jail in Iran. Two years on, 'quiet diplomacy' has failed the Australian academic. We contend it's an outdated strategy, flawed…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 2, 2020
Can Dreamworld repair its reputation? We say yes, conditionally. This week saw the company, not individuals, charged over the tragedy that killed four people. Liam Cox and Peter…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 2, 2020
Is it simply a bad habit that so many politicians and some business leaders dodge answering questions? What's so hard about a simple 'Yes' and…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 2, 2020
Your mobile rings; it’s from a journalist asking for a response to a damaging story being published in an hour or two. What happens next…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 28, 2020
How do we video-conference better during COVID-19? Liam Cox speaks with Peter Wilkinson and award-winning film maker Fred El Harris, who between them, have over 50-years experience behind and in…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 28, 2020
Your mobile rings; it’s from a journalist asking for a response to a damaging story being published in an hour or two. What happens next…
Peter WilkinsonMay 21, 2020
Coronavirus presents a time of unparalleled uncertainty, making it the greatest communications challenge of our time. Calming nerves will be much easier if we think…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 24, 2020
Still reeling from the election results? Here's what we can learn from it.
Peter WilkinsonMay 24, 2019
Seems the ASX’s draft Corporate Governance Principles has set the cat among the pigeons in corporate Australia. Central to the controversy is the idea of…
Andrew ButlerAugust 3, 2018
Transparency in leadership can be confronting, especially when it’s forced out of you by a royal commission.
Peter WilkinsonMay 22, 2018
Media Training: Overview Photo: Channel 7 News In this now hyper competitive environment, CEO’s must be able communicate on behalf of the company to external…
Peter WilkinsonMay 1, 2018
It seemed inevitable to us, from the beginning, that Ford would come unstuck with the deception.
Peter WilkinsonApril 27, 2018
Social media manipulation, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the allegations of Russian troll farms distorting elections, has brought sharply into focus that people are…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 26, 2018
The last five days have been a whirlwind for Facebook since the news of the Cambridge Analytica broke and layers upon layers of this data…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 22, 2018
The power behind the school student uprising that’s taking on the NRA over the US gun laws, is a warning to governments (and large companies)…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 26, 2018
The Bell Pottinger catastrophe is a harsh reminder of the value of values. The British firm co-founded by Lord Tim Bell, to whom the New…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 9, 2018
The arguments swirling around the RDA may seem like a side issue in Australian politics, but they’re not – they’re of fundamental importance. They go…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 14, 2017
(Peter Wilkinson has been elected Chair of the Global Communications Alliance, an organisation of senior independent public relations and public affairs companies) To be a…
Peter WilkinsonJanuary 6, 2017
The passionate debate and controversy around 18C, and Bill Leak's cartoon, has made a simple choice appear complex. It’s about free speech, or restricting it,…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 17, 2016
Last week we witnessed the unedifying spectacle of Turnbull and Abbott going hammer and tongs at each other, with media commentary emphasising their mutual hate.…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 25, 2016
You wouldn’t have predicted that such a bright spark would make such a basic mistake! CEO’s and PR people learn a lot by watching politics.…
Peter WilkinsonApril 6, 2016
Here’s a different slant on a story that’s been doing the rounds for the last week, about yet more redundancies amongst journalists, with The Independent…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 23, 2016