About

I offer a purposeful and proven approach to all clients – from rapid discrete projects, to challenging interim management roles, and long-term development and delivery of powerful, intelligent strategy and campaigns.

This experience and impact for many varied organisations is highlighted through the case studies and client quotes here. I bring a special perspective to working on all types of campaigns, including behavioural change, through the breadth of sectors and challenges I have taken on. Even my time as a local politician – working close-up with the public – has given me a valuable insight into what influences people and their lives, from policy to promotional campaigns. I am a specialist in creating partnerships, steering and managing stakeholder relationships, and developing and implementing campaigns that deliver results and make a real difference.

A collaborative culture enables me to assemble expert teams of highly effective professionals who, like me, combine project work with senior roles in the NHS and elsewhere. And because each team is tailored to the requirements of each project, we bring innovation, experience and expertise in a way that is targeted, cost-effective and flexible.  

We provide focused, effective strategy and delivery, with measurable results and lasting impact. We’re not an agency. We are a collaborative team of dedicated and innovative individuals with depth and breadth of experience, expertise and perspective in the NHS and wider sectors.

You can read about our work and what clients say across the core services that I and the team offer. Please do get in touch for an informal chat, to find out more, or for a response to your challenge or brief.

What clients say

Exceptional comms professional who brings an excellent strategic brain combined with the ability to deliver on his strategies. David excels at stakeholder management, quickly understanding stakeholder positions and calmly and professionally bringing them along with him.

Jayne Spence Head of Policy and Communications, Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
Formerly Head of Communications, Rural Payments Agency

Develops and executes effective communications and engagement strategies and importantly has the relationship building abilities needed to gain internal and external stakeholders’ support for key organisational projects, change programmes, and buy-in to effectively involving staff and citizens.

Ranjeet Kaile, Executive Director of Communications, Stakeholder Engagement and Public Affairs, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Director of Communications and Engagement, South East London Integrated Care Board
Formerly Head of Communications and Engagement, London Borough of Lambeth

Sharp analytic understanding of public service provision (and the politics on which it depends) with practical experience and achievement in managing services - a rare combination which makes David distinct.

David Walker Formerly Managing Director, Communications and Public Reporting
The Audit Commission Chair, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Gravitas, skill and experience make him a key player in delivering major change.

Simon Cook Programme Director, Bath Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (RUH)
Programme Director, University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS FT Warneford Park capital development programme
Formerly Programme Director, South London and Maudsley NHS FT Capital Programmes
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