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Account Director About Alder Alder is an award-winning reputation, risk and crisis advisory firm, providing strategic consultancy to clients on critical situations, organisational change, reputational risk and preparedness. Over 15 years, the firm has built deep expertise through involvement in complex situations including multi-fatality events, criminal proceedings, and regulatory scrutiny. Our team works across a […]
Practice Manager About Alder Alder has built a strong reputation in crisis communications and is now growing as a Reputation Risk and Crisis Advisory, covering strategic and management consultancy as well as reactive communications advice. The role To ensure that the business can scale effectively, we are looking for a highly capable and proactive Practice […]
By Jack Myers Schools have long published pupil photos to celebrate school life and engage parents. That hasn’t changed, but the risk environment has. Recent cases show how images taken from school websites and social media can be manipulated using AI tools into harmful content, sometimes followed by attempts to blackmail schools. Crucially, there is a difference between […]
By Lottie Newell An employment tribunal claim can often be as much a test of organisational judgement and leadership as it is of legal position. Risk arises not only from the outcome, but from how the issue is perceived by employees, stakeholders, and the public. In practice, reputation is often shaped before a case is heard. Partnering with […]
By Lottie Newell Inquests create a form of scrutiny that is both public and highly personal. By the time proceedings begin, organisations are often already under pressure, whether from bereaved families, staff, regulators, or the media. Crucially, an inquest does not need to assign blame to cause reputational damage. What matters is the narrative that forms as […]
By Joe MacIntyre What matters most during a CQC inspection? A CQC inspection is not just a test of operational performance. It’s also a test of how your organisation manages reputational risk under scrutiny. While inspections focus on safety, quality, and leadership, the outcome also shapes how your organisation is perceived by regulators, commissioners, staff, and the public. […]
The Mandelson vetting affair has become one of the most instructive, and damaging, examples of crisis communications mismanagement in recent political memory. Not because the underlying facts are necessarily fatal to the government, but because of how catastrophically the communications have been handled. The story, in brief: Peter Mandelson was appointed UK Ambassador to Washington in early 2025, […]
By Lottie Newell When things go wrong, organisations rarely stumble in private. Issues that begin as operational, regulatory or cultural failures quickly become reputational crises, played out in public and judged at speed. That is why boards need to think about risk through a reputation lens, not just an operational one. The UK Corporate Governance […]
If you lead a faith organisation, you probably already know that the media does not treat you the same way it treats other organisations. A corporate that mishandles an employment dispute faces scrutiny. A faith organisation that does the same faces a story about hypocrisy. The incident may be identical, but the coverage rarely is. Why Journalists Approach Faith […]