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Karen Durham-Diggins
Karen Durham-Diggins Director One Girl Productions Limited
United Kingdom

Karen Durham-Diggins is Communications Consultant with over Thirty years + experience in Communications - twenty-two of those in the digital sector.. Working strategically with digital agencies, brands, media owners, and digital service suppliers to support growth. B2B & B2C PR & Communications. Building individual and brand profiles on & off line. Executive coaching: enable senior staff to write opinion pieces and public speaking training as part of their personal career growth and to support the company sales pipeline .

Skills

Communication: Devise communication strategies both internally & externally, develop & define brand messaging, on & off-line, to enable my clients company's growth and to support their sales pipeline. Create strategies to develop cohesion and communication between departments and outward facing communication with your customers. Coaching & Mentoring: Board & Executive, key stakeholders, group heads & managers: One-2-one training and mentoring to improve all communication skills e.g. presentations, media, broadcasting, sales & writing thought leadership pieces. Media & Speaking Training: Improve speaking and presentation skills to an audience, whether publicly, on a screen (TV, Youtube, Webinar) or audio. PR Strategy: An ability to 'cut to the chase' for B2B or B2C and still be creative in my approach. Present relevant stories to journalists to ensure no one's time gets wasted - either clients or members of the press. Board Role: Available for Non-Executive Board positions.

Previous Experience

What Mobile & Cellphone Magazine 1993 First consumer magazine Computer Life for Ziff Davies and PC Direct, PC Magazine 1994-96 Launched Cyberia internet cafes 1994-96 & then supported their global expansion. Electronic Telegraph, Express Sport Live, ANM (This is Money etc.), EMAP (Q, FHM, Empire, Parkers.) VNU 1996-98. .coms: E-garden, icollector, thebestofbritish, MadBid. Institutions: University of Westminster – NMK, Hyper Island –Sweden, Interaction Design Institute Ivera – Italy. Founding member of The Cluster. Brands: The Body Shop, Levi’s Europe. Creative Agencies: Lateral, Mook, Digital Outlook, de-construct, Embrace, Delete Services: Tempero, Affiliate Window, Wordtracker, 1UpDigital SI’s: LShift, Talisman Innovations, neoworks, Salmon.