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PR & Comms Mentoring with Ellen Carroll

An expert ear, a sounding board, your very own strategic public relations, communication, and marketing auntie – lifting you and your team up.

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“It has been invaluable to have Ellen as an experienced ‘sounding board’. Ellen is extremely knowledgeable, experienced and helpful.”

Fiona Geeson
Marketing Communications Manager | Ashfield Meetings & Events

PR mentoring online & In-person

Ellen provides online and in-person mentoring coupled with bespoke training and trusted consultancy for in-house public relations, communication and marketing practitioners, business owners and leaders, agencies, and freelancers. Ellen shares her extensive 25+ years experience, knowledge, and expertise to help you to overcome your challenges, feel supported and energised with greater clarity and results.

Bespoke 

My mentoring is tailored specifically to you and your needs. I work one-to-one with you to provide guidance and support and my mentees come away from their sessions energised and empowered. I absolutely love mentoring – it gives me such joy to make a difference, and my mentoring style is friendly, positive, inspiring, and practical.

Mentees come to me for focused attention on a whole range of challenges with recent mentoring focused on upskilling for a new role and career development, expert advice on PR and comms strategy, providing support to bring comms back in-house, sessions to build confidence and to be a guiding and supportive hand within a confidential safe space.

Your PR mentor

Ellen Carroll is a strategic communication, PR and marketing consultant with over 29 years’ experience who has worked in-house, agency-side, as a freelancer and has been running her own PR and comms agency since 2007. An affiliate sounding board and coach for the PRCA and PR & Comms specialist with Propolis, the Global Community for B2B Marketing Leaders, Ellen is an experienced mentor and trainer, and a former mentee of the PR Week and Women in PR Mentoring Scheme.

Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.

PR mentoring is transformative for:

In-house practitioners

  • Expert advice, upskilling & guidance in a new role
  • Support to bring PR & comms back in-house or agency selection & management
  • Strategy development, ideas, advice & consultancy
  • Experienced sounding board & attentive listener
  • Advice on reputation, crisis management
  • Someone to challenge, & provide honest feedback
  • Confidence & independent support.

Agency leaders & junior staff

  • Self belief, confidence & encouragement
  • Help with challenges, skills, knowldge & training gaps
  • Access to a senior practitioner to share experiences
  • Strategic input, ideas & consultancy
  • Advice on building relationships, reputation & managing workload
  • Independent & confidential sounding board
  • Expert insight & support with challenges.

Freelance/solo practitioners

  • Advice on setting up, running & scaling your business
  • Sounding board & cheerleader
  • Building confidence & self belief, help with overwhelm & imposter syndrome
  • Ideas, contacts & a guiding hand from someone who has been there & worn the Tshirt
  • Skills gap training
  • Accountability & someone to challenge you
  • A support network & brains to pick.


To find out whether PR mentoring, training or PR coaching is the right fit for you, your team or organisation, please book a free discovery call with Ellen. The mentoring provided is fully flexible, bespoke and based on your needs with one-off hourly ‘pick my brain’ sessions and strategy days available as well as intensive and longer term support.

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Case Studies

UltraMed

“The work Ellen has done with me and Ultramed has been extremely helpful for us in bring PR to the forefront of our thinking rather than just our marketing. I would highly recommend working with her as a way to bring focus and energy.”

Lovegrove Essentials

“Working with Ellen at Nellie PR was very enlightening. She was able to help me clearly identify which aspects of PR to focus on for our brand, and how to go about that. Together we created a strategy that I can follow and track the progress of, and I set aside a day a week to implement that."

CICM

“Ellen is imaginative, creative and articulate. Her practical and thoughtful approach helps create an environment in which the business can develop its thinking and move ideas forward. Her input has been valuable and will deliver real payback to the business as we implement the ideas and concepts she has identified, and helped us identify for ourselves.”