Communications Member Network Meeting
Communications Member Network Meeting
Calling all nonprofit communicators - whether you’re leading in a communications role or wearing multiple hats in a busy team - this is your space!
Join us for the next meetup of our Communications Network.
What’s on the agenda?
- The Dublin Conversations: We’re delighted to welcome Andy Green and Pádraig McKeon, from the Dublin Conversations – a global initiative that began in Dublin in May 2018. Born from a gathering of academics and practitioners across advertising, PR, digital, and social comms, the aim of this initiative was bold: make the communications and creative industries fitter for purpose in a rapidly changing world. What followed was a growing collective of volunteer supporters from across sectors and continents – co-creating a new communications philosophy, narrative, and practical toolkit to help people adapt faster and better. At its core, the Dublin Conversations ask: How can we empower communicators to become truly fit for purpose at the crossroads of stoppable bad and unstoppable good?
- AI: We'll give you a sneak peek at the latest data on the steps Irish nonprofits are taking to prepare for the use of AI in their work.
- We Act Campaign: Claire McGowran, We Act Campaign Manager, will give an update on exciting new developments.
- Networking: You’ll have time to network, ask questions, and learn directly from peers across the sector. This is your opportunity to share challenges, celebrate wins, and build new connections.
Whether you’re just starting or a seasoned communications lead, this network is designed to support and empower you!
- You can book places for yourself and/or colleagues by clicking the button below.
- This event will take place on Zoom.
- Closed Captions can be enabled by participants.
- Please email matthew@wheel.ie if you have any special requirements.
Meet Your Speakers:
Padraig McKeon is a specialist senior advisor on strategy for communications, communications capacity building in organisations and issue and crisis communications management. Padraig is a recognised and respected leader in the Irish public relations and communications management marketplace, with almost 40 years of practice across a mix of the commercial, the public and the third sectors.
In recent years, his focus has been more on working with non-profit and volunteer organisations where in addition to his work as a professional advisor he also has extensive experience as a board and board committee member in a range of settings. He is a qualified Trainer, active nationally and internationally, and since 2016, he has been teaching on a number of master’s degree programmes at Dublin City University.
Since 2023, he has also been co-running ConversationsFest, a salon conference for PR and communications practitioners in his native Sligo. Padraig is a fellow of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland, a Chartered Practitioner of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations in the UK and a globally certified Strategic Communications Management Professional by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
Andy Green FRSA is a UK-based cofounder of the Dublin Conversations, social enterprise Grow Social Capital, the Modern Cockney Festival, and part-time university lecturer.
His work enables individuals, teams, and organizations to transform their brand storytelling, creativity, and purposefulness to realise their potential and seize untapped opportunities around them. He even runs creativity classes on the London Tube.
His passion is for co-creating new thinking and doing to enable anyone working in the PR, communications and Comms industries to both do their jobs better and be fitter for purpose in enabling wider society to overcome growing social division, polarisation, and distrust.
Author of ‘Creativity in Public Relations’ - the world’s first book on the subject, and five other texts on creative communications, translated into eight languages. He has lectured in every Continent (apart from South America and Antartica).
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