Communications
Mike's strengths are in Community Consultation, Media Relations, Strategic Political Advice & Lobbying, Issues & Crisis Management, Media Awareness & Media Skills Training, Direct Marketing and Film & video Script Writing.
He has won multiple National Society of Business Communcators Gold 'Serif' Awards for campaign management, print or video projects between 1986 and 1998. In 1995 he won the Award for Communications Excellence from the Australian Marketing Institute in SA.
He has earned a series of National and State awards from Public Relations and Communications professional bodies in the past decade for projects displaying these skills. The awards reflect an ability to determine client and market needs and to provide workable and economical means of communicating concepts or facts by multiple, direct means.
Mike was the first Public Relations practitioner to twice win the PRIA (SA) Excellence Award's highest local citation, the Laurenti-Ellicott Award in 1991 and 1995.
Corporate & Training videos he produced and/or scripted have won Creative & Gold Excellence Awards at the 1991 and 1998 US Industrial Film & Video Festival. He won the National PRIA 'Golden Target' Award in 1991 and was runner up in 1995.
