Jean Robertson
Founder and entrepreneur of JMR Consulting
JEAN Robertson is one of South Africa’s most effective public relations practitioners and toprated communications consultants. An industry veteran with more than two decades of experience in the field, Jean was schooled by the doyenne of the sector the late Suzanne Weil, while working on Vodacom’s Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards.
After cutting her teeth on the biggest telco corporate account of the time, she went on to handle the agency account for the financial capital of Africa promoting it both as a destination of choice and a prime tourism destination, among many other personal career highlights.
As founder and chief executive of JMR Consulting, her firm handles a number of key clients, providing a raft of services from media relations to crisis communications to media training in a platform agnostic manner; traversing print, broadcast, digital and social media.
What We Do
Public Relations
The fine art of public relations is to target the right audiences with factual messaging, at the right time. Public relations involves working alongside the most critical of stakeholders, the media, also named the fourth estate, in a meaningful and authentic way. It involves communicating the client’s communication…
Media Training
During media training, we explore how to hold your “interview attitude” in developing executives to be media ready. It’s live, it’s interactive and its informative about what tips will be useful when being interviewed…
Reputation Management
Why is building a positive corporate reputation important? How we communicate across the various mediums is a guideline to your success in today’s modern world. A company’s overall reputation is a function of its reputation among its various stakeholders (investors, customers, suppliers, employees, regulators…
Coaching
Services Offered
- Public Relations
- Reputation Management
- Media Planning
- Social Media Management
- Marketing
- Event Management
- CSI Public Relations
- Sponsorships
- Sustainability Public Relations
- Crisis Communication
- Media Training (Business Introduction)
- Call centre Reputation training
- Executive Business Coaching
- Freelance producer for webinars, podcasts and radio shows
Project management of Media Awards
(Vodacom’s Journalist of the Year – one of the most successful media awards in SA for 10 years – 2003 to 2011) .
SA Publication Forum Awards – member of the Judging panel (2022)
Worked in organisations across industries in corporate and the public sectors such as the City of Joburg.