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Happy International Women’s Day! I don’t feel smug about many things, but when it comes to women I certainly do. I’m extremely lucky to have the most amazingly fierce, loyal and inspiring women in my life and I’m thankful every day for them. A surprise bonus was joining VMAGROUP and recruiting for Internal Communications and Change professionals which, as it happens, turns o...

Gravitas has always intrigued me. In my younger days, climbing the management ladder, I am not sure I understood what it meant. I assumed it was only intimidating, powerful, clever men that had this and was not something I would have considered myself having. Perhaps it is easier to identify those that do not have it. People for example who lack confidence or have low self-e...

Written by Matthew Batten, Organisational Development Adviser at the Royal College of Nursing. This blog first appeared on All Things IC. Communications. Three words I used to fear. But after attending VMAGROUP's seminar, Moving on up: How to be more strategic in internal communications, led by Nicholas Wardle, Head of Employee Engagement and Communications at One Housing, I...

According to our latest market report, The View, the UK corporate communications industry is predominantly female, making up 64% of the profession. However, our research also indicates that more men reach the Head of/Director level than women. We’d like to open the debate about why this is and what can be done to redress the balance. Coinciding with International Women’s Day...

Leading international recruitment and executive search specialist, VMAGROUP, is delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Harvey as Group CEO. Andrew will take over the role previously held by Julia Meighan, who moves into the position of Chair of VMAGROUP. Andrew joined VMAGROUP in 2013 and for the last two years has been UK Executive Director, responsible for the gro...

Leading international recruitment and executive search specialist, VMAGROUP, is delighted to welcome Associate Director Lisa MacMillan back to the UK following her relocation from Hong Kong. With a communications background in industry and more than 14 years recruitment and search experience in communications and marketing, Lisa now joins the company’s London team focusing o...

We are excited to be hosting a Marketing Insights and Analytics breakfast roundtable on Wednesday 13th March, 8am. We will be discussing hot topics currently affecting Marketing Insights & Analytics and what are predicted to be the biggest influences in 2019. This invitation-only event will be attended by senior marketing professionals from a range of industries. If you are ...

We are delighted to launch our new The Changing Face of Marketing Survey. We are seeing significant change in the way business is conducted and with content accessible across a multitude of channels and platforms, and in real-time by tech-savvy customers, how is the Marketing function shaping up to meet the shifting demands of today’s customer? The report itself will be an i...

We will be running a workshop 'Moving on up: How to become more strategic in Internal Communications' on Tuesday 5th February, 2019 at 6pm in London. The session will be led by Nicholas Wardle, Head of Employee Engagement & Communications at One Housing. Nicholas has over ten years’ experience in internal comms across a number of sectors including local government, media, re...

VMAGROUP is delighted to be hosting CIPR's Ethics in internal communication: Empowering people to do the right thing event. In this session you’ll learn: learn how to think differently about the challenges you face daily in your work discover the theory behind the practice when it comes to making ethical choices discuss ways to build your confidence to enable you to challeng...