Nick Wright

Nick is a senior, experienced communications and engagement professional now operating as an independent consultant.  He specialises in internal communication, employee engagement and change.

Between 2011 and 2015 Nick was communications director at accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO.  His responsibilities covered the full range of reputation management activity including media, public affairs, employee and brand engagement.  He built a new communications function that was awarded ‘Best In-House Team’ by both the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and PR Week in 2014.

During this period Nick was also an independent member of the Government Communications Service Capability Review team.

Prior to joining BDO he spent 13 years at corporate communications consultancy Fishburn Hedges where he was a board director and led the employee engagement and change practice.  During that time he worked on a range of assignments in both the public, private and professional service sectors.

In addition, he has had stints in-house with Boots as their first head of employee communications and subsequently with Lloyds TSB performing a similar role during the merger of the two banks.

Nick is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Guy Corbet

Guy is a communications and marketing consultant, helping businesses influence how they are seen by the audiences that are most important to their success.

He advises on how to plan, promote and protect reputations.  Guy has advised senior executives, launched campaigns, companies and products, handled crises and shaped, built and protected brands.

Guy set up and runs Fourteen Forty Communications, delivering campaigns which help solve business problems for a variety of ambitious businesses.

He is also a non-executive director of the Online Dating and Discovery Association, playing a part in making dating the safe and happy experience it should be.

Before that, he was a managing director at leading communications agency Brands2Life, where he created the corporate affairs and brand team and established it in the market.

He also spent 18 years in the Fishburn Hedges Group, across a variety of roles, including marketing director, group marketing director and as managing director of Seventy Seven, the consumer brand subsidiary.

Sue Stapely

Sue Stapely was instrumental in the early years of the Apology Clause campaign.  Sadly, she passed away in 2025.

She was a solicitor, reputation management consultant, coach, trainer and author, advising global businesses and individuals.  Her career spanned the BBC, law, strategic communications and public affairs, including senior roles at Quiller Consultants, Fishburn Hedges and the Law Society.  She was a partner at Heald Nickinson, where she headed family law and established the firm’s first public affairs department.

She worked extensively on high-profile miscarriages of justice, including the successful campaign to overturn Sally Clark’s wrongful conviction, which contributed to changes in the judicial approach to unexplained infant deaths.

A founder of the SDP, Sue served on its National Executive Committee, chaired Women for Social Democracy and stood in the 1987 General Election.  She was also the first chair of the 300 Group, an all-party campaign to increase women’s representation in politics.

She was a regular broadcaster and columnist, appearing on programmes including Question Time, Any Questions?, Newsnight and Today, and served on boards across the NHS, arts and consumer sectors.