Mannion Consulting helps clients solve their important communication challenges by providing specialist skills in crisis management, coaching and strategy.

Formerly an award-winning journalist, founder Robert Mannion advises some of New Zealand’s largest corporate and public sector organisations. He has helped clients get highly successful results across many demanding assignments and brings special experience and expertise in the infrastructure, education, property, forestry, health, public good and professional services sectors.

Successfully managing a crisis demands good preparation and a cool head. But by showing your values in action it can also be a chance to build trust. A timely and effective strategy can resolve issues before they come to a head.

Robert has helped numerous clients successfully manage serious workplace incidents, support litigation and win back key constituencies. He has managed many high-profile media crises and also developed or tested crisis management plans for more than twenty organisations, including critical national providers.

Robert has led training programs for scores of participants who have rated their benefits highly over more than a decade.

This work includes providing all supporting communication materials as needed, such as speeches, slide decks, corporate documents, Q&As and messaging.

Coaching and support offered include:

• Media training: Confidently convey what you want to say, without sounding robotic.
• Presentational training: Hold your audience, examine and define your narrative and sharpen delivery.
• Special-purpose coaching: Confidently address a special challenge or advance a big opportunity by critically considering and successfully presenting your case.
• Presenting to formal hearings: Robert has significant positive experience coaching professionals ahead of disciplinary hearings and training teams presenting to statutory tribunals.
• Business and professional writing: Help your team get to the point, save time and connect effectively.
  
  Usually delivered to groups, these writing courses are highly interactive, put a distinctive emphasis on structuring information in advance and include effective approaches to using AI productively while keeping a genuinely human tone.

The right strategy is central to a successful outcome. In putting this into action Mannion Consulting brings a considered, problem-solving approach with an emphasis on staying grounded and human.

Successful bigger campaigns include helping a global professional sports team to build support through an intensely critical litigation campaign, a leading education provider to regain stakeholder endorsement for an important development, and some of the country’s biggest infrastructure providers to manage serious high-profile challenges.

Robert has strong writing skills which he brings to all assignments. This includes working with clients as required to define and integrate all communication strategy around a clear core purpose.

Please call Robert at 272 310 301 or email robert@mannionconsulting.co.nz