Strategic Communications Consulting
How we can help
FTI Consulting Strategic Communications helps clients use their communications assets to seize opportunities, manage crises, navigate market disruptions, articulate their brand, stake a competitive position and preserve their license to operate.
The FTI Consulting service model provides a single source to address the interrelated issues that can affect enterprise value.
Our goal is not just to address challenges but to anticipate them, surround them and deliver sustainable solutions that range from the immediate to the long term.
How We Help
We have the largest senior team of communications advisers in Australia, drawn from backgrounds including journalism, investment banking, professional services, government and in-house communication.
Our multidisciplinary integrated firm draws upon our decades of experience and knowledge of best practices, global marketplaces and trends to provide our clients with comprehensive communications solutions relating to:
Corporate Reputation
We understand the intangibles that affect a company’s valuation, reputation and ability to achieve business...
We understand the intangibles that affect a company’s valuation, reputation and ability to achieve business objectives. Our experience and relationships and our proven approach helps clients manage their corporate reputation and grow their business.
With expertise across crisis and issues management, corporate brand and positioning, media and presentation coaching to employee engagement and sustainability consulting, FTI Consulting works across an array of disciplines to protect your company’s reputation.
Specialising in protecting and enhancing reputations, building an organisation’s profile as a leader, we ultimately support business outcomes that contribute to an organisation’s enterprise value.
Crisis Communications
Our expert team has global crisis management experience in Australia and across the globe, and helping clients...
Our expert team has global crisis management experience in Australia and across the globe, and helping clients both prepare for and respond to crises and incidents. We have a deep understanding of the impact of different types of communications crises and we help our clients to anticipate, prepare for and mitigate them. Similarly, our response team helps organisations navigate even the most complex of crises to reduce legal exposure, financial liabilities and reputational harm.
Digital & Insights
Stakeholders who determine the success of your organisation are online, and the competition for their attention...
Stakeholders who determine the success of your organisation are online, and the competition for their attention is extreme. To influence decision makers in this fractured media environment and digital age, every industry needs a comprehensive digital communications strategy that helps them understand and respond to rapidly shifting narratives with content that resonates with the right audience. FTI Consulting takes a data-driven, audience-first approach to help organisations craft compelling narratives, reach decision makers where they are and drive positive business outcomes.
Our digital experts provide custom solutions that enable clients to identify and understand priority audiences using data and insights to develop strategies that engage with them through the most opportune and powerful paid and organic channels.
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ESG & Sustainability
We provide extensive support to companies and advisors navigating today’s evolving, and rapidly shifting,...
We provide extensive support to companies and advisors navigating today’s evolving, and rapidly shifting, ESG-driven demands. From materiality assessments and sustainability reporting, to net zero strategies, supply chain audits and ESG-related internal investigations, among many other offerings, our diverse group of experts guides you throughout your ESG journey to support a more sustainable and inclusive future for your organisation and the world more broadly.
Financial Communications & Investor Relations
We are trusted advisors to boards and C-suites on capital markets and corporate change events and drive business...
We are trusted advisors to boards and C-suites on capital markets and corporate change events and drive business success through long-term, strategic investor relations.
With an in-depth understanding of what the investment community wants and needs, FTI Consulting works with organisations to educate the market on the investment thesis and build and manage new and existing capital markets relationships. We ensure a company can navigate future capital markets activities, deliver a consistent and credible investment narrative to the market, engage key stakeholders and ultimately cultivate a growing shareholder base.
Our IR programs are grounded in best practices that position clients to attract and retain investment and deliver continued value to their shareholders.
Public & Government Affairs
We advise our clients on the impacts of changing regulatory and legislative environments, and on the most...
We advise our clients on the impacts of changing regulatory and legislative environments, and on the most effective ways to navigate the intersection of business and government — local, state and federal.
Transaction Communications
Serving as trusted advisors to C-suites and boards of directors, our team of communication consultants support...
Serving as trusted advisors to C-suites and boards of directors, our team of communication consultants support companies during complex and critical transactions.
We help clients successfully manage complex events and transactions that occur when either seizing growth and transformational opportunities or responding to significant offers.
Providing support for M&A and activism, divestments and restructuring, IPOs or capital raising requirements we work across both the listed and unlisted space to support a company throughout its corporate lifecycle.
People & Transformation
We help business leaders, HR and corporate communications anticipate and drive the people side of change.
We help business leaders, HR and corporate communications anticipate and drive the people side of change. People are critical to any transformation agenda, whether you’re orchestrating a restructure, a transaction, a shift in strategy or culture, contentious enterprise negotiations or other significant event. Your employees, customers, partners, suppliers, regulators, investors and key stakeholders must understand your strategy and believe in the future you’ve described before they will work meaningfully with you to achieve the desired result.
Our approach is rooted in data. With you, we assess and understand current perceptions, stakeholder impacts and new processes relevant to your goals. We use these inputs to design and implement communications, engagement, leader enablement, learning and mobilisation programs that build understanding and enable change from the inside out.
By painting a clear picture of the future and being specific about the steps and behaviours that enable your goals, we inspire commitment, drive productivity, bolster retention and engagement, protect value and enable growth over time.
Meet Our Strategic Communications Experts

Robert Skeffington
Senior Managing Director, Head of Australia Strategic Communications
Sydney, NSW

Ben Hamilton
Senior Managing Director
Sydney, NSW

Cameron Morse
Senior Managing Director
Perth, WA

Stuart Carson
Managing Director
Sydney, NSW

Shane Murphy
Managing Director
Perth, WA

Asha Oberoi
Managing Director
Sydney, NSW

James Tranter
Managing Director
Perth, WA

Shannon Walker
Managing Director
Melbourne, VIC

David Whitely
Managing Director
Melbourne, VIC