Michael Macmillan trains hundreds of people every year in communications skills and often, crisis management.
His abilities have been used to hone and test key messages, preparing organisations for publicity challenges and maximising good publicity as well as curtailing bad.
His clients include major utilities, banks and government departments.
"Michael was central to formulating our key messages during a crisis which cost one of our banks millions.
He tested and challenged our messages and helped to put us back on track."
Nick Garbutt - former Head of Communications Europe National Australia Group.
Michael Macmillan Background
Michael Macmillan, owner of Macmillan Media, has been at the forefront of
television broadcast journalism for the past three decades and has worked
extensively for both ITV and the BBC. His talents were recognised at an early
age when he was promoted to the position of Political Editor at UTV when he
was aged 24. After guiding the station's output through the most politically
sensitive period of the H blocks Hunger strikes he attracted the attention
of ITN in London and became one of the youngest reporters ever to be
appointed to News at Ten. Michael became a household name on the
programme for his reporting of the Miner's Strike and the NGA dispute and
after five years at ITN he was snapped up by BBC Television News who quickly
posted him to the world's hotspots. As a Foreign Correspondent he reported
from more than thirty countries and became best known for his reporting
from the Middle East for which he won a prestigious Royal Television Society
award. Viewers will recall his reports during Gulf War 1 when he became the
first broadcast journalist to enter Kuwait on the night of Liberation and his
delivery of news of the hostage releases of Brian Keenan, Terry Waite
and John McCarthy.
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