Public Relations

Executive Profiling & Thought Leadership

Building the personal profiles that put executives in the conversations that matter.

Public Relations

Strategic counsel at the intersection of reputation, regulation and commercial reality.

How we help.

Executives with a strong public profile contribute disproportionately to their organisations’ reputation, commercial relationships and ability to attract talent. Building that profile deliberately — rather than hoping it emerges organically — is a discipline in itself.

Corson Fiske works with CEOs, board chairs and senior executives on personal positioning, thought leadership content, speaking platforms and media profile. Our engagements are discreet and led by senior communications advisors.

The work is particularly valuable at career inflection points: new CEO appointments, chairmanships, industry leadership roles and public positioning around specific issues.

Capabilities

  • Personal positioning strategy
  • Thought leadership content development
  • Speaking platform identification
  • Byline article and op-ed development
  • Media profile building
  • Awards and recognition strategy
  • LinkedIn and professional profile management
  • Executive coaching on public communication

Outcomes from recent engagements.

Indicative results from engagements within this practice area. Client details have been anonymised; outcomes reflect actual matters completed by the firm.

72 hours

Crisis Managed

Cyber incident response

Managed the first 72 hours of a material cyber incident for an ASX-listed company, coordinating legal, regulatory notification and market disclosure.

ASX-listed company

3x profile

Growth

Thought leadership

Delivered a 12-month CEO thought leadership program that tripled media profile and generated six national op-ed placements.

CEO positioning

Full support

Continuous disclosure

IR advisory

Advised a mid-cap ASX-listed client on continuous disclosure strategy and results communications through a challenging reporting period.

Mid-cap listed

Senior communications counsel, embedded in an advisory firm.

Most communications firms operate in isolation from their clients’ legal, tax and commercial advisors. Corson Fiske is different. Our Public Relations practice sits inside an integrated advisory firm, which means communications decisions are never made in isolation from the broader strategic, legal and regulatory position.

Every engagement is led by a senior communications advisor with direct experience in the matter type, supported by colleagues across the firm’s other practice areas wherever the matter requires it. Our offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Auckland and Singapore deliver consistent counsel across Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

What clients need to know.

Engaging external advisors on any significant matter raises practical questions about scope, timing, cost and outcomes. We believe in being straightforward about each of these from the first conversation.

How engagements typically begin

Every engagement starts with a confidential initial conversation — usually 30 to 60 minutes — in which we listen to the situation, ask the questions needed to understand it properly, and share a view on whether and how we can help. There is no charge for this conversation and no obligation to proceed.

How we scope and price work

We prefer fixed-fee or capped-fee arrangements wherever the scope allows. Where the scope is genuinely uncertain — as in contested matters — we agree hourly rates upfront and provide regular fee updates against defined phases. We do not bill for internal discussions, file opening or routine administration.

Who you will work with

Every engagement is led by a partner with direct experience in the matter type. That partner remains your primary point of contact throughout. Specialist colleagues join the team where their expertise is required, but you will never be passed from person to person or find the partner you hired is no longer on the file.

How we handle confidentiality and privilege

All engagements are subject to strict confidentiality. Where legal advice is being delivered, it is provided through our incorporated legal practice and attracts legal professional privilege. We take document security, information handling and communications discipline seriously on every matter.

Get the right advice from Corson Fiske.

Confidential, no-obligation consultations with a senior communications advisor.