paternoster.

Paternoster is an independent strategic communications agency based in London. We provide practical advice and services to our clients in order to build and protect their reputations.

Our clients are entrepreneur and founder led businesses and philanthropic organisations with high-reaching ambitions for the future. We focus on this audience because of their passion for their reputation and their commitment to the long-term, which reflects our own passion. We are a highly experienced team, backed by digital insights and data analytics, and we are here to help our clients achieve their ambitions.

#helpful.

We create fresh high-impact communications programmes that reach and resonate with all stakeholders - from employees to customers, the media, regulators and existing and potential investors. In our experience, all audiences need to be considered even if one group is a priority.

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We are living in a different era. A time when everyone can voice opinions and share them instantly, challenging the voice of online and traditional media outlets and countering the position of established sources.

We prepare clients for communicating in this new normal, for both the planned and the unexpected in order to protect and enhance their reputations.

We work closely with organisations and ask the tough questions before someone else does.

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At the heart of what we do is reputation management and our belief that communication with purpose builds reputation and develops trust. From purpose-led leadership communications to crisis communications management, and the intense focus of M&A, IPO and fundraising, we are passionate about building, enhancing and protecting reputations.

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Strategic communications reimagined

Communications

Preparedness

Reputation

Companies that fulfill their purpose
and responsibilities
to stakeholders
reap rewards over
the long-term.
Companies that ignore
them stumble and fail.

Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO
Blackrock 2019 CEO letter

The Rules have Changed

Communications has undergone unprecedented change in the past few years, driven by digital technology and the rise of indirect stakeholder influence. The world has both become both smaller and bigger.

The rules of engagement have changed, and we are here to help.

The new Era

Passion led us here

with over

years'

combined communications experience across both agency and client-side, we know the pressure you are under.

We’re here to be helpful.

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Our Founding Partners

Tom Buchanan

Tom has a 25 year track record in communications, including almost 20 at Brunswick. He set up Paternoster as a new breed of consultancy, aimed at doing things differently and better.
He is one of the most knowledgeable financial, transaction and crisis communications advisors in the UK with significant experience advising clients in Europe, the US, the Gulf States and Asia.

#FinancialCommunications #CorporateCommunications #MandA #IPO #Crisis #Reputation

Catriona Woolner-Winders

With 20 years of global in-house and agency experience at the highest levels, Catriona is a highly experienced corporate affairs leader with strong business, brand and financial acumen, as well as a track record of delivering successful and cohesive communication and reputation management programmes

#InHouse #Campaigns #StakeholderEngagement #CSR #Brand #Purpose #FinancialCommunications #CorporateCommunications #CrisisCommunications

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A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Publilius Syrus