Specialising in reputation, crisis and issues management communications,
Sue Stapely FIPR FRSA is thought to be the UK’s only practising solicitor providing comprehensive strategic communications counsel, with unrivalled experience, particularly working in the legal sector.

A former BBC Television programme maker, turned politician, broadcaster and solicitor, Sue was Head of Public Relations at the Law Society of England and Wales before moving into consultancy, as a director of Fishburn Hedges, the award-winning London communications and design consultancy.

She now works regularly with Quiller Consultants (www.quillerconsultants.com)as well as advising her own clients, who come from all walks of life and range from major international law firms to high profile individuals. Her work is primarily discreetly defending and maintaining the reputations of organisations and individuals facing damaging issues and press exposure, often as a result of coming into contact with the law.

Her extra-curricular activities are mainly in the arts as she is a board member of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, on the board of the Brighton Dome and Festival and of the Spare Tyre Theatre Company. Until recently, she was a board member of the government’s Countryside Agency and on the Development Council of the Royal Court Theatre. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and of the Royal Society for the Arts, a member of BAFTA, the International Bar Association, the International Women’s Forum, the Media Society and on the National Consumer Council’s Advisory Group.

Sue is undertaking an endurance rally through India in 2008 for charity and would welcome your support. Please click here to find out more about this rally.