Daniel Valentine

Daniel Valentine

Daniel Valentine, a former advisor to the Conservative Party, is currently group director at Weber Shandwick. He was previously a senior investor relations officer for companies listed on the FTSE250 and FTSE100. Daniel is also visiting professor of strategic management at a leading European business school, and a visiting lecturer in marketing at Regent’s University London. His book Online Marketing to Investors: How to Develop Effective Investor Relations was published in May 2015 by Business Expert Press.

Opening moves in crisis communication

A frontfoot strategy for surviving a PR crisis

Daniel Valentine

Posted: 29 September 2015

Last month the UK media was gripped by stories of an organisation in crisis. Kids Company was a charity founded in London in 1996 by Camila Batmanghelidjh, which gave financial and other help to troubled children.

Kids Company won many...

The results are in…

The 2015 UK General Election was a polarising event. But what communication lessons can it teach us?

Daniel Valentine

Posted: 17 August 2015

Presenting a consistent image over time through the UK’s famously trivialising, variety-seeking, sceptical and antagonistic media is not easy for any organisation.

Now imagine that your organisation is not a corporation but a political...