This year, we’re continuing our ‘How I…’ series of online events, when senior women in the PR industry share their experiences and offer advice to support and inspire our members.

Our first event is 11 am on Friday 9th February and focuses on ‘How I… bounced back from redundancy.

This panel event will feature three senior women who will offer advice from different perspectives:

Nichola Johnson-Marshall is an ICF ACC credited coach and co-founder of training, career coaching and communications consultancy Working Wonder. Prior to her latest career venture, Nichola has over 25 years of Communications experience having held senior leadership roles at LinkedIn, Barclays, lastminute.com and eBay as well as working for many PR agencies including freuds and Hill & Knowlton. It was during her communications career she experienced redundancy twice and now runs training workshops to re-build people’s confidence when searching for a new role.

Ijeoma Erengwa is an Associate Director at leading recruitment agency Reuben Sinclair,where she has spent the last three years after spending seven years in agency roles. She is well-versed in advising and working with candidates who have experienced redundancy and are looking for their next roles.

Etsy UK PR Chelsea Cook has had a successful PR career to date by any standards, with roles at leading agencies and in-house positions at Argos, Sainsbury’s and Made.com before joining Etsy a year ago. However, she experienced redundancy and can talk first-hand about what it takes to bounce back and find an even better position.

The 45-minute panel event will be hosted by WiPR Committee member Charlie Mulock, with plenty of time for questions from the audience. Please sign up to access the Zoom event link and hear what we’re sure will be an informative and inspiring panel discussion.