Strategic communications consultancy

Personal PR & Executive Coaching
in partnership with Jo Henwood

Our vision: for our clients to feel confident and supported in raising their industry profile or in making their next career move.

Our mission: to use our combined PR and Executive Coaching skills to help clients gain a competitive edge in their industry by providing a holistic approach to career growth that delivers results.

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Charleston Festival has a distinctive and wide-ranging programme, spanning art, literature, politics, and ideas, featuring everyone from household names to emerging artists. PR needs to reflect and respond to those varied strands and audiences, and it’s long been a frustration that the world-class speakers and stories generated here rarely travel beyond Charleston. From the outset, Jane and Iliana understood Charleston, the festival, and our ambitions for it. They were responsive, precise, imaginative and sensitive, working seamlessly with me and the wider team to turn that insight into exceptional coverage. Their extensive networks and deep experience brought important journalists directly to the festival, ensuring our stories reached a far broader audience. They were a total pleasure to work with throughout.  Melissa Perkins, Head of Programme and Events

Jane Acton was an incredible partner for the Virago 50th anniversary campaign, which centred around our founding date in June 2023 but comprised a year-long series of publications, events and media coverage… She has amazing contacts, which she turned into widespread coverage, and Jane was also endlessly patient, collaborative, creative and flexible, always available at the end of the phone for trouble-shooting or brainstorming. I hope we can work together again in the future. Sarah Savitt, Publisher, Virago 

Jane has been instrumental in helping us to raise the profile of our little-known but critically important book prize, the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. As well as developing and delivering a highly successful communications campaign, she has also helped to drive the overall strategy for the prize and has played a vital role as expert advisor to the jury of academics and public figures. The Prize is on a much stronger footing now as a result of our partnership with Jane. Aside from her abundant skills and expertise, she is also a joy to work with – we are delighted to have found her! Liz Hutchinson, Director of Communications and External Relations, The British Academy

Jane Acton is always top of our list for current affairs/ upmarket non-fiction campaigns. Her ideas and her knowledge of the media are unmatched and authors, editors and in-house publicists alike enjoy working with her. For Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury and Siege, she delivered headline-grabbing international campaigns that were also beautifully managed and appropriately reactive. Very much looking forward to our next collaboration. Zoe Hood, Director of Literary Publicity, Little, Brown Book Group

Jane joined the Portico Prize team in 2018 to provide strategic advice on relaunching the award and to deliver an accompanying communications campaign to raise its profile. Her co-ordinated and carefully planned approach led to the 2019 Portico Prize receiving unprecedently levels of media coverage… She has a vast array of skills, an impressive network of contacts and is always a delight to work with. We cannot recommend her highly enough. Thom Keep / Lynne Allan, The Portico Library