OTTAWA, May 27, 2019 – Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Canada’s top-ranked public relations and public affairs firm, announced today that John Delacourt is joining its Ottawa office as Vice President and Group Leader of the Public Affairs team. “John is well-respected on Parliament Hill and beyond. He has tremendous experience as both a public affairs and communications … Read more
On September 17, 2016, I was standing on the summit of Gaustatoppen, an iconic mountain in southern Norway, in the middle of the night, and I couldn’t see a thing. It had been cold and raining for a few days, and clouds obscured our vision. I was peering down the mountain, trying to see if … Read more
“Give a man a mask and he will show you his true face” is one of Oscar Wilde’s best-known witticisms, but, in his day, few could have imagined that it would turn out to be one of his most prescient as well. Wilde understood that anonymity offered a chance to vent frustrations and opinions that … Read more
In hindsight, an award-winning campaign such as WheelSwap, in which we used virtual reality to drive tangible behaviour change, looks like a no-brainer. The road from the point that Ford gave us our original charge to the amazing results we achieved at the end was anything but easy. Here’s the inside story on how an … Read more
What would Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman think about this wave of socialism and purpose-driven talk that is hitting companies these days? It was Friedman, after all, who laid the basis for 50 years of taut shareholder capitalism back in 1970 when he argued that if companies sought anything other than (legal) profit, it would … Read more
Traditionally, public relations have been built upon an ability to provide insightful and precise advice and ideas to engage the public. Going forward, our license to operate will be staked upon our capacity for innovation. Obama utilized micro-targeting. Trump won by dominating the conversation. Now, Democratic candidates mounting a bid for the US presidency in … Read more
May 3, PARIS – Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K), international public relations agency, has appointed Valérie Lecasble as Managing Director of the Paris office. “Hill+Knowlton Strategies has a great reputation in France, and it’s global reach appealed to me. I look forward to bringing my energy, my expertise and my network to add to the breadth and … Read more
“The only way to beat a machine is with another machine.” – Alan Turing A recent story that physicists reversed time using quantum computing immediately grabbed my attention. It is a great read about how scientists restored a quantum computer to the state it had been in a moment earlier. I find this mind-blowing and … Read more
***Article on Page 4 by Niel Joubert, Financial + Professional Services Specialist. View web PDF here: HK Strategies Africa Digest_April 2019.
May 8, NEW YORK – Jack Martin, global chairman and CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K), an international public relations agency, was awarded the Outstanding Individual Achievement SABRE Award at the Holmes Report’s 2019 North America SABRE awards ceremony in New York last night. “I appreciate this award, but the real honor is working with this … Read more
