Rachel O'Connor
PR & Communications Consultant

Experience

Rachel’s career has spanned 25 years working across all areas of marketing and communications with some of the world’s biggest brands across multiple sectors including Kellogg’s, Vauxhall, Ford, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Sarah Lee. Her travel and hospitality portfolio includes work for hotels, airlines, car rental, theme parks, tour operators, and rail companies. She is well versed in all aspects of internal and external communications, corporate, consumer and B2B. Rachel is a highly capable board director level support.

Skills

Working with leaders and managers to engage and drive change to communications out put. / Auditing and then creating an effective communications structure to meet business needs.
 / Developing a communications strategy and function to support the business plan by reaping greater value from communication output.
 / Internal communications – supporting businesses with management and communications strategy, planning, recruitment and training.

Qualifications

BSc Hons. Psychology; MCIPR, PRCA member, Vice Chair of the PRCA’s Travel and Tourism Group.

Why I love what I do

Seeing a business harness communications to deliver a stronger and more valuable reputation amongst its stakeholders is highly satisfying. I often work with business leaders who see little or no point in communications when we begin, but quickly become converts once they have the right internal support and external approach.

My fun time

Spending time with family and going to concerts