PR Do’s and Don’ts

PR Do’s and Don’ts

  PR is an industry where you have to be reactive, creative, a good communicator, think on your feet – and keep people happy. We caught up with Leading Lady Lainie Coombes, Director of Project PR & Media, to ask her: what tips would she pass onto a...
#LeadingLadies: Ange Lin

#LeadingLadies: Ange Lin

Ange Lin refers to herself as a professional delegator; but we prefer to call her a philosopher. “I’m more of a doer than a talker”, Ange explains over brunch in Fitzroy, a little inquisitive as to why we’re meeting to discuss her career. A massive understatement....
#LeadingLadies: Fee Townshend

#LeadingLadies: Fee Townshend

Fee Townshend remembers the time she was shoulder tapped to lead PR Edge. ‘Did she know anyone?’ her boss asked her. She instantly thought of a handful of stand out women she knew in her network. ‘I meant you,’ he eventually told her. ‘Did you want the job?’ Eight...
Dealing with harassment in the workplace

Dealing with harassment in the workplace

Whether implied or overt, sexual remarks or advances at work from clients, colleagues or even managers are completely inappropriate and you have every right to record and report any scenario where you do not feel safe or uneasy. Regardless of whether a boss, a client...
#LeadingLadies: Lainie Coombes

#LeadingLadies: Lainie Coombes

Lainie Coombes, Director Project PR & Media, started out her PR career interning at one of Melbourne’s biggest PR agencies. “I had no idea what PR was”, she said, having studied PR at University. “But I learnt more in that one week at the agency, than all my years...