Portland Profile: Millie Jenkins
This month’s Portland Profile features Millie Jenkins, Account Manager in Portland’s Health team: What is your favourite part about your role? One of my favourite parts of working at Portland has to be working with such intelligent, kind and inspiring people. Across the business, everyone has such interesting backgrounds and so much knowledge to share. […]
Portland Profile: Daisy Robertson
This month’s Portland Profile features Daisy Robertson, Account Director in Portland’s PA & Policy team. What is your favourite part about your role? You hear it time and time again from Portlanders, but it truly is the people who work at Portland that make it such an incredible place to work and, of […]
Portland Profile: Giandomenico Di Girolamo
The Portland Profile is back for 2025, and this month it features Giandomenico Di Girolamo from Portland’s International Development Team. What is your favourite part about your role? My favourite part of the role has to be the variety of work we get to do on the International Team. Since I joined Portland, I’ve […]
Portland Profile: David Earnshaw
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received in your career so far? Change is good. And change is one of the defining characteristics of our business – whether we work in policy, public affairs or coms. Increasingly we need to work with rapid change and innovation. We need to be ready for that. […]
Portland Profile: Rebecca McKenzie
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received in your career so far? Take an 80/20 approach to what you’re trying to achieve – you’ll never please everyone all of the time, so aim for 80% and you’ll have a good outcome most of the time. This is particularly important in my role when we […]
Portland Profile: Adam Hall
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received in your career so far? It might sound really cliché and a bit like something you might hear on the BBC tv-show W1A, but a phrase used by a colleague after a tricky client meeting really resonated with me – ‘people buy people’. At times in my […]
Portland Profile: Anne Edimo
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received in your career so far? In the early years (many years ago) of my career, one of my mentors once said to me that hard work coupled with patience paved the way for great success. At the time it didn’t make sense as I had nothing to […]
Portland Profile: Katie Emms
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received in your career so far? “What would you tell your client to do in the same situation?” Taking a step back. Not rushing into decisions. And seeing yourself from an external point of view really helps to make better, more informed, and objective decisions. What is […]
Portland Profile: Asad Moghal
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received in your career so far? Think about where you want to be in five years. That was a piece of advice I received from my first manager on my very first day of working. Often we are too focused on our immediate goals but we rarely take […]
Portland Profile: Elizabeth La Trobe
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received in your career so far? I think when you’re starting out you assume everyone knows everything all the time but that’s not the case! So asking carefully thought out questions isn’t a weakness, it’s how you get to the root of an issue and can offer the […]