Julia Meighan

Julia Meighan

Julia Meighan MBA is chief executive of VMA Group, a corporate communications and marketing executive search consultancies. She regularly comments on all aspects of leadership communications, employee engagement and managing corporate reputations. Julia is also an executive coach specialising in helping communications leaders increase their impact and influence at board level by helping them transition from trusted adviser and expert to transformational business leader. She also champions the progression of women into senior executive roles and chairs VMA Group’s advisory boards across Europe and Asia.

A CEO perspective on reputation leadership

For a long time, communication directors struggled to get the ear of their CEO and CEOs were mostly immune to the idea of involving communications in the creation of the business strategy.

This was based on the perception of the function...