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Katherine McDonald

Katherine McDonald - Senior Consultant,Strategem NI

Katherine is a Senior Consultant with Stratagem and is a founder member of the firm. She advises some of Stratagem's longest-term clients and has provided project management to a range of organisations working in complex legislative and regulatory environments. She has also led higher-profile campaigns co-coordinating policy development, lobbying and public relations. She has developed and delivered a comprehensive and popular training programme on lobbying, campaigning and understanding government in Northern Ireland.

Katherine worked for the Labour Party based at Westminster for four years. After one year with Tony Blair MP, she worked as research and press assistant to Mo Mowlam MP, then Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. She returned to Northern Ireland in 1997 as press and public relations officer for The Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NIACRO). Katherine studied at St. John’s College, Oxford and then completed a Masters in Journalism studies at the University of Ulster. In 2006, she spent two months at the University of California, Berkeley taking a course in Politics, Ethics and Leadership.

 
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  • Strategic career planning is an essential skill for motivated individuals. Career progression in the public sector is increasingly challenging, but for those with a clear strategic direction, there are still opportunities to progress, advance and develop. Applying your skills and proactively overcoming personal limiting assumptions can give enormous benefits to the individual and the organisation. Read More

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  • Throughout the day, delegates will develop the idea of a mutual as an alternative to ‘business as usual’ and will leave with a complete overview of the mutual model, how to implement it and how to support it in the future.. Read More 

  • Led by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, this one-day training day will aim to provide a comprehensive education in the nature of finance in the public sector. Read More

  • Join communications consultant Sandra Miller on this one-day course to maximise your verbal ability. Sandra has over 15 years' experience as a communication skills consultant, trainer and coach, working with bodies like Greenwich PCT and Bexley Council and the BBC, as well as leading private firms Deloitte and JP Morgan. Read More