Chris Freimond
I have worked as a writer and public relations consultant in Vancouver since 1995. Before establishing my own company in 2006, I was general manager for British Columbia of Hill & Knowlton Strategies, a global full service public and government relations firm. Prior to that, I was a Senior Counsellor for more than seven years with Hoggan and Associates, one of Western Canada’s leading independent public relations agencies at the time.
My clients have included firms and organizations in the healthcare, technology, financial services, environmental, tourism and government sectors.
I have widespread experience in communications. I have developed and implemented strategic communications plans, helped integrate business strategies with public relations programs, provided counsel to companies facing serious crises, managed media relations campaigns, prepared written materials for integrated corporate communications initiatives and coached company executives for major media interviews.
Much of my work is focused on written communications. I help clients prepare a wide range of written materials including news releases, background briefing documents, speeches, presentations, editorial contributions and annual report content. I am a regular contributor to sponsor content reports published by The Globe and Mail and have written a series of online columns on crisis communications for Business in Vancouver. I also contribute written content for Export Development Canada's website.
Before moving to Canada in 1995, I was a political and business journalist in Southern Africa for 20 years. My work was published extensively in South African newspapers and magazines and in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, for which I was South African correspondent for four years. I also wrote regularly for Southern African Business Intelligence, a publication of the Financial Times of London, and occasionally for Crain’s business publications in Chicago and New York.
I have a Master of Business Administration degree in Public Relations and Communications Management from Royal Roads University in Victoria and I am an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) with the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). I have also completed the Strategic Management of Investor Relations program at Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario, and the New Managers’ Program at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business in South Africa.
My clients have included firms and organizations in the healthcare, technology, financial services, environmental, tourism and government sectors.
I have widespread experience in communications. I have developed and implemented strategic communications plans, helped integrate business strategies with public relations programs, provided counsel to companies facing serious crises, managed media relations campaigns, prepared written materials for integrated corporate communications initiatives and coached company executives for major media interviews.
Much of my work is focused on written communications. I help clients prepare a wide range of written materials including news releases, background briefing documents, speeches, presentations, editorial contributions and annual report content. I am a regular contributor to sponsor content reports published by The Globe and Mail and have written a series of online columns on crisis communications for Business in Vancouver. I also contribute written content for Export Development Canada's website.
Before moving to Canada in 1995, I was a political and business journalist in Southern Africa for 20 years. My work was published extensively in South African newspapers and magazines and in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, for which I was South African correspondent for four years. I also wrote regularly for Southern African Business Intelligence, a publication of the Financial Times of London, and occasionally for Crain’s business publications in Chicago and New York.
I have a Master of Business Administration degree in Public Relations and Communications Management from Royal Roads University in Victoria and I am an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) with the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). I have also completed the Strategic Management of Investor Relations program at Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario, and the New Managers’ Program at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business in South Africa.