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Bespoke Communications work with exceptional communicators. We offer media training, public speaking coaching and leadership development to the country’s biggest and best known organisations. With over forty years combined expertise in broadcasting and business development, Sarah and Camilla will help you build your influence for better and faster business results. We are practitioner-principals, developing and delivering bespoke training programmes with each and every client.

Sarah Travers

Sarah is an experienced broadcast journalist and TV presenter, with a keen interest in stories and the people that shape them. Sarah is a familiar face to many in Northern Ireland, where she was news anchor in the BBC newsroom for 17 years. Sarah started her career with BBC Radio Foyle, and has presented lifestyle programming for UTV, Northern Ireland’s commercial TV channel. As Director of Bespoke Communications, Sarah develops media and crisis communications training programmes for a range of different organisations in the public, private and third sectors. She continues to appear on-screen as a TV presenter on a range of programmes and documentaries. Sarah holds a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Nottingham Trent University.

Camilla Long

Camilla brings diverse business-to-business commercial experience to her role as a facilitator and advisor with Bespoke Communications. She started her career in Tokyo in Japan with Mitsubishi as a software developer. She went on to hold business development roles with fast-growing technology startup, PTS, and financial information giant, Thomson Reuters. In 2000, she moved to London to launch a disruptive stock-market trading product with Credit Agricole, that went on to become Europe’s leading electronic trading platform. She relocated to Ireland with her young family in 2008, where she has run her own startup businesses, and developed an industry CPD programme with Ulster University. Camilla is a member of the Chartered Management Institute, holds a BSc in Computer Science and Maths, and an MSc in Strategic Management.

Meet our expert associate facilitators

Aidan McGrath

Aidan McGrath is an experienced business consultant, trainer and coach with a wealth of commercial experience. He has particular strengths in Strategy, Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Sales, Sales Management and Sales Training. Aidan co-developed and is currently co-delivering the Sales Leadership Programme for the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute at Queen’s University. He is Managing Director of Acumensis, a business consultancy specialising in Strategy, Startups, Sales and Marketing and Training. Aidan has over 30 years experience in the technology sector with broad commercial experience at CEO and Board level having carried full P/L responsibility and Board accountability. He has substantial experience in C-level contract negotiation (in both public and private sectors). He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Biochemistry from the University of Ulster and an MBA from Trinity College Dublin.

Mike Philpott

Mike Philpott is a communications professional with almost forty years experience in journalism and public relations. He spent the 1980s and 90s as a reporter, producer, presenter and correspondent with BBC Northern Ireland, BBC network and BBC World Service. His print career spans the Manchester Evening News Group and the Belfast Telegraph. He has worked with international broadcasters including CBC Canada, ABC Australia and Radio Deutsche Welle in Germany, and now regularly narrates BBC television documentaries. Mike has recently completed his first novel, Purblind, and has won the prestigious Hennessy Award for his writing. Mike advises organisations on PR strategy and has been a respected media skills facilitator for over twenty years.

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