Spencer Jordan Fox

Wouldn’t it be great to have your own board of experts?

When we launched Tovera Consulting it was with a vision to offer more than a traditional corporate brand and reputation consultancy. Recognising that whilst most of our research and advice would inform brand positioning, reputation management and corporate communications strategies, our experience also told us that sometimes, building reputation isn’t always about a communications outcome. […]

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reputation resilience

Schillings’ view: Six reputation management must-dos

Taken from a recent ‘Reputation Resilience Report’ from the law firm Schillings which reports into the resilience of corporate reputation from the perspectives of the equity analysts, private equity funds and institutional fund managers whose opinions and reviews have the biggest direct impact on corporate valuation of any stakeholder group. These are the summary must-dos: […]

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“Consumers are morons”

Mark Ritson recently published an opinion piece where he concludes that in light of the relatively small dip in VW sales following the emissions scandal, perhaps consumers are unconcerned with corporate reputation, that they are perhaps, really morons. This got me thinking, are consumers really morons, unconcerned with corporate reputation? It was ten years ago […]

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reputation

5 reputation management tips for 2016

  Plan for the fact that managing your CEO’s reputation is part of managing your corporate reputation. There are many examples that demonstrate how the behaviour of a CEO can serve as a catalyst for the unraveling of a corporate reputation, which in turn can lead to value destruction, loss of business and more (e.g. […]

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measurement

Reputation Measurement: Why Bother?

If there’s one thing that (for me) has defined this recent period in business, it’s the seemingly unquenchable desire for businesses to measure stuff. We have KPIs, KPOs, sentiment tracking, brand trackers, reputation, employee engagement, trust metrics… the list goes on. With so many measures, there’s a real risk of racing to achieve a number, […]

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Coming Out Fighting

Can corporate communicators learn from individuals fighting to protect personal reputation? There was a time, not that long ago, when many high profile individuals lived by the mantra of Never Complain, Never Explain. What this meant in practise was that if a story broke in the media, or if an ex-employee or associate spilled the […]

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Spurious Correlations

It never ceases to amaze me how some researchers/consultants/journalists can find a correlation between two datasets and then jump to a conclusion that one is absolutely related to, or even causing, the other. At best it’s lazy; at worst, it can lead to bad decisions being made. You see this frequently in political reporting where […]

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