Darryl Mead

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About Darryl Mead

My career passion is people, culture and employee communications and my purpose is to help businesses to make work better. I'm at my best making sense of complex communication challenges, or strategy and turning them into practical, simple communications or programmes of work. I'm known for being calm, practical, a proper expert - and I'm happy to own being really nice. My all round experience is at a senior level both in house in large/global and small/local companies combined with many years in creative agencies, which means I've worked on everything from coaching leaders, change programmes, creative campaigns, writing, planning, facilitating and all the way to tactical front-line communications. There's few challenges I've not come across. A few achievements I'm proud of- Shaping, launching and leading the employee board and employee ownership at Emperor- Winning Gold at the 2020 Business Culture Awards for the culture and values work with XPS Pensions- Leading EVP, values, employer brand and culture development for some awesome brands such as Just Eat plc, Sanne Group (2021 Silver Award), Reckitt, Domino's, SSE, The Warehouse, PZ Cussons, Three, Argos, H&M, Maersk, Beneo- Leading a series of six 'Culture Club' events in the UK to create conversation about the changing role of culture within organisations- Countless employee comms campaigns for businesses across all kinds of sectors using stories, print, video, digital, intranets and experiences. The world of work and the improving the experience of employees is what I know best, so if you want to chat, or talk about how I can help, send me a message at dbmcuk@gmail.com Speciality skills- Internal / employee communications, HR and change communications, intranet strategy, coaching- Creative campaigns, brand engagement, corporate narrative, Inclusion diversity and equality communications- Purpose, values, employee value proposition, employer brand, recruitment marketing, storytelling, onboarding.