Anita Hamilton is a Communications, Marketing and Organisational Change Consultant, Leadership Coach, and author of How to be a Happy Woman in Mid-life published by Olympia Publishers in London Anita Hamilton: How to be a Happy Woman in Mid-life.
I deliver strategic communications programmes to manage reputation, increase awareness, improve performance, productivity and well-being. I coach leaders to manage behaviour and become effective communicators in order to achieve organisational and business objectives. I am a public speaker on women's progress and employee well-being/happiness in the workplace. I’m a freelance lecturer in communications and leadership for the University of Kent and guest lecturer and mentor at Aston University on their MBA course in the Aston Business School.
Hamilton Consulting works with clients to change attitudes or opinion and change behaviour. We achieve this in three ways, all interrelated: managing reputation (public relations) ; behaviour change programmes; leadership consultancy services for individuals and groups to improve personal impact and communication skills through coaching and training. We help build businesses, their brands and their reputations.
Understanding the importance of reputation is part of the currency of modern communications, embracing traditional PR skills and maximising the possibilities of storytelling through social/digital campaigns. Reputation is often hard won and can be easily decimated. Organisations typically have multiple stakeholders whose engagement contributes to overall reputation. An entire campaign can be built on a simple story reaching audiences in a compelling and meaningful way.
Throughout my career I have worked with senior leaders helping individuals and groups in business, in entertainment, in the arts, in the public sector, in financial services, the armed forces and in many leading organisations to communicate more effectively with a range of audiences and stakeholders. It is widely acknowledged that effective communication skills are a cornerstone of good leadership; it’s not enough to have detailed knowledge of a subject or industry, as a leader you need to be able to communicate that knowledge in order to influence and to motivate those around you.
In recent years I have focused on the challenges that women often face when making progress in the workplace. My interest stems from spending a year studying women in the Police Force in the UK as part of a degree in Human Psychology and more recently through a postgraduate degree in Organisational and Social Psychology at the London School of Economics. I have spent much of the last five years speaking with business and organisational leaders, meeting women at various stages of their career, learning about their issues and discussing the challenges with psychologists. A programme of courses and coaching is the result including a Women in Leadership Programme
With thanks to Paul Hackett paulhackett.co.uk for my personal images
