Our services

Being strategic at speed has never mattered more.

We will help you:

  • Optimise your efforts
  • Know who and what you’re dealing with
  • Be match fit
  • Put your best foot forward
  • Succeed.

Communication audits, transformations and restructures

  • refining and communicating your company purpose
  • channel and message evaluation, optimisation and alignment
  • communication audits, de-cluttering and transformations
  • structural reviews of teams, processes and protocols

Stakeholder research, strategies and engagement

  • in-depth interviews, surveys and workshops
  • data and thought leadership analysis, reports and media engagement
  • comms and stakeholder engagement strategies for businesses and projects
  • facilitating workshops and team planning days

Issues and media management

  • Advice and support to manage issues, opportunities and changes
  • Scenario planning and contingency manuals
  • Media and presentation training

Case Studies

International law firm
 
We provided strategic communication counsel to the Chair and Managing Partner of one of Australia’s leading law firms as they prepared for an international merger. Our role included reviewing current messaging, communication practices and protocols and presenting recommendations to the firm’s Board to improve communication and media management. Following that, our Director provided advice and assistance and acted as a sounding board to the firm’s communication team in relation to a number of serious issues related to patterns of behaviour among senior partners, downsizings, rumours and ongoing media scrutiny.
Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
 
While a Director at her previous company, Anne developed Australia’s first ever ‘whole of Australian Government’ issues and crisis contingency plan – to protect ‘brand Australia’ during the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
 
Consultation with over 40 state, federal and private sector organisations to identify everything that could happen and escalation points to trigger the issues management protocol. The protocol specified how public information was coordinated, cleared, communicated and cascaded to media and the public and who would be lead spokesperson.
 
It proved highly successful during Games’ time and was a blueprint for other whole of Australian Government projects.
Elanco Animal Health
 
Boxing Clever helped Elanco Animal Health through several issues management projects to support their farm and companion animal health products across Australia and New Zealand. Working closely with Elanco’s local and global teams, we crafted communication strategies and materials to support media and stakeholder relations and protect product and corporate brands. In keeping with Elanco’s commitment to continuous improvement, Boxing Clever was also engaged to undertake interviews with the executive team and staff to develop a new issues management protocol and deliver training to support its implementation across Elanco’s Australian and New Zealand operations.
Federal Government
 
When Anne worked in public affairs roles in the Attorney-General’s Department and the Australian Protective Service in Canberra, she was a media spokesperson and managed media related to counter-terrorism issues, arrests, demonstrations, Greenpeace on the roof of Kirribilli House, and security preparations for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

 

Government communication projects

Our team has managed more than 50 projects for government clients spanning:

  • whole-of-government communication and issues management strategies
  • stakeholder engagement and communication strategies
  • PR, marketing and community engagement campaigns
  • stakeholder workshops, research, recommendations and engagement
  • communication and website audits
  • content to support regulatory changes and digital transformation

PR campaigns and content

  • corporate communication – speeches, issues briefs and reports
  • brand building and launches
  • rebrands and re-positionings
  • websites and content creation
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