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I help constructive disruptors tell their stories.

A Constructive Disruptor is a particular breed of entrepreneur.


👁 they have a vision to solve a human problem


🤖 they are building a scalable machine


🤝 they want to build a tribe


⚔️ they are different


🌳  they have some validation and traction

Are you a constructive disruptor?

👁 You have a social vision, and you want to create a business as a vehicle to deliver that vision.


An authentic, emotive human problem drives the business. Products are to offer a solution to a problem. These have more traction than products built as a solution looking for a problem. There are already too many resources wasted on things people don’t want, and don’t need.


🤖 You are building a product, a scalable machine.
Valuable, large businesses that have impact and power, can change people's lives for the better. Technology-products businesses have more scope to grow and create wealth than human-services businesses. Creating labour, and paying people for a good day's work is important. But investing in capital is the way to get there.


🤝 Improving a community drives you. You want to build a tribe, a coalition of the willing.
Ideas get delivered faster when others come with us, and we find a way to collaborate. This doesn’t mean we shouldn't be ruthlessly competitive, this is nature's way. But democratic leadership - earning a following - is better than authoritarian leadership built on exploiting power.


⚔️ You have bold ideas that are different. You instinctively zig when others zag.

The definition of leadership is doing something different, everyone else is just following someone else. Regardless of the clothes people wear or the words people say, it’s the actions and choices people make that really matter, and earns trust and respect. 


🌳  You have some validation, and some traction.

There’s a fine line between the visionary genius and the lunatic that shouts at passing cars. Leaders need some validation for their idea, some proof points. Leaders with a track record attract more attention, and go further and faster with less, than those starting from scratch.

Could this be you?

Or if you just want to find out more... please get in touch.
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Some previous work.

Neil Isaacson, CEO, Liberty Charge - Matt Phillips PR

LIBERTY CHARGE

Liberty Charge is a joint venture between Liberty Global and Zouk Capital that delivers power and connectivity infrastructure for residential on-street EV charging.`


“Liberty Charge worked with Matt in the early stages of our growth, a challenging PR brief given our multiple stakeholder relationships and, initially, a lack of news. Throughout the project we received excellent advice, the team produced and placed on-message opinion-led coverage in important media titles, and sensitively managed the news we had - including a positive, high-impact launch of our first rollout. They worked effectively with our partners to help us influence our core local authority audience”. Neil Isaacson, CEO


Results


  • Delivered 47 pieces of earned-media coverage across national business media and target verticals


  • Provided strategic advice, stakeholder management and media relations to support local authority partnerships.


  • Created comms programme around national “charge point shortage” resulting in opinion-led coverage in EV trade & local authority media

Toby Hollis, CMO, Disciple Media - Matt Phillips PR

DISCIPLE MEDIA

Disciple is a community management platform that helps people build independent, valuable and trusted communities in a safe space that they own and control. 


“Matt has deep expertise in the media and entertainment sector, and a great understanding of how the tech platforms influence the business community - allowing us to generate compelling content that helped us punch above our PR weight as an early-stage startup. Plus, his corporate comms experience and stakeholder management skills from the BPI and BBC were invaluable when helping us manage the launch of our highest-profile project with Matt Hancock's app.” Toby Hollis, former CMO, Disciple Media


Results

  • Achieved Forbes profile article for founder Benji Vaughan, hooked to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica crisis


  • Secured earned opinion-led coverage in titles including CityAM, Forbes, New Statesman, The Guardian & IT Pro Portal


  • Media relations support and stakeholder management to deliver high-profile launch of Matt Hancock app.

Seema Alibhai, communications, Unreasonable Group - Matt Phillips PR

UNREASONABLE GROUP

Unreasonable Group builds community between entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors to profitably solve pressing global problems. 


"Matt has extensive knowledge of the UK startup sector and media landscape. As well as securing 10-plus pieces of media coverage for three of our spokespeople, they provided us with thoughtful strategic and tactical advice throughout." Seema Alibhai, Senior Director, Global Media & Communications


Results


  • Delivered 10 strategy workshops advising  portfolio companies on PR


  • Ghost-wrote eight opinion articles on topics including sustainable investment, & ESG for Unreasonable spokespeople


  • Secured profile interviews for founder Daniel Epstein in Authority magazine & Future is Beautiful podcast

James Cannings, co-founder, MMT Digital - Matt Phillips PR

MMT DIGITAL

Part of the MSQ group, MMT Digital provides technology consultancy and agile digital transformation services to enterprise businesses.


“Matt worked with us for two years, prior to the sale of Be Heard to MSQ. They provided sound counsel to our marketing team on PR strategy, delivered quality copywriting that earned us coverage in leading trade titles where we'd not featured before, and provided smart tactical media relations advice to help us gain visibility for our work with Vodafone to showcase our expertise in agile. He media-trained our team, and secured an interview slot on BBC Business News to discuss tech results - a first for me.” James Cannings, co-founder


Results


  • Delivered 24 pieces of coverage, including a BBC TV interview for James on Twitter’s results.


  • Wrote 14 articles with placements in outlets including Campaign, CityAM, Drum & WARC.


  • Leveraged flagship Vodafone TOBi case study to earn coverage in Marketing Week & Econsultancy.

Dominic Young, founder & CEO, Axate - Matt Phillips PR

AXATE

Axate is a digital wallet that makes it possible for online publishers to collect ‘casual payments’ - an alternative to advertising and subscriptions.


“Matt helped us build our reputation in the UK trade media, as we sought publisher deals and advocated casual payments as a credible complement to subscriptions & advertising.” Dominic Young, founder & CEO


Results


  • 18 pieces of opinion & comment coverage, in publishing and media trade press


  • CEO Dominic Young was interviewed on BBC Radio5, commenting on the Cairncross Review.


  • Two founder profile interviews; The Drum, Prolific London.

BOUNTIFUL COW

Bountiful Cow was spun out of leading independent the7stars in 2016,  founded on the principles of transparency, collaboration and expert planning.


"We got a lot of PR at launch, but needed to keep it up. Matt helped us keep our brand visible by amplifying our news and wins, doing thoughtful trade media newsjacking, and landing high-impact TV spots for our spokespeople.” Henry Daglish, then founder & CEO


Results


  • Achieved 50 pieces of coverage over 2018-19, including twelve earned op-eds on a wide range of media topics.


  • Coached spokespeople and earned six broadcast interviews, three on the BBC, commenting on WPP, Twitter and the rise of the six-second ad spot.


  • Consultancy around key account wins for Mizkan, Alzheimer's & Starling Bank.

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