The Defuse Podcast: Feel Safer in Public Life
🎙️ Prominent families face threats that very few people properly understand.
Most are not dramatic. They arrive quietly.
• A fixation
• An online campaign
• A trusted insider
• A family member under pressure
• A reputation damaged in hours
The sort of problems most advisers never see until it is too late.
👤 I'm Philip Grindell.
After 35 years at Scotland Yard and in government protection, including building Parliament's specialist threat assessment team after the murder of Jo Cox MP, I founded Defuse Global.
🎧 This podcast is a series of honest conversations with the people who deal with risk, crisis, and the pressure of prominence at the highest level.
🧠 Former FBI behavioural specialists
⚖️ Crisis advisers
🛡️ Reputation lawyers
🧬 Forensic psychologists
🏛️ Family office leaders
Occasionally, principals themselves speak candidly about what prominence costs.
🚫 No drama.
🚫 No fearmongering.
Just practical insight from people who have spent years dealing with real threats.
Because the real subject is not security.
➡️ It is helping people feel safer in public life.
🌍 Defuse Global works quietly with a small number of clients worldwide.
If this world feels familiar, the conversation need not end with the podcast.
The Defuse Podcast: Feel Safer in Public Life
Crisis Communication with Giles Kenningham MBE
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Giles Kenningham is an expert in crisis communication. A former journalist who honed his skills at the sharp end of politics as the strategic advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron shares his thoughts on the relevant issues. In this podcast, we look back at his time in politics, and the Covid pandemic. We then discuss how his consultancy, Trafalgar Strategy, advises their clients, understanding the traps and opportunities, guiding them away from a crisis or helping them avoid one in the first place.
Some of the key questions Giles answers include.
What do you do in a crisis?
How do you respond?
Can you get ahead of the game and pre-empt a crisis?
What impact does Social Media have and how do you use it for positive effect?
How do you manage fake news?
Giles Kenningham MBE is a former Head of Press at Number 10 Downing Street and spokesman to the Prime Minister. He was the Director of Communications for the Conservative Party’s general election win in 2015 leading a team of 40 people. Prior to this he was a special adviser/ press secretary to the Secretary of State for Communities, Local Government and Housing.
He started his career as a journalist in national radio reporting on business and consumer issues for a variety of stations including Classic and Magic FM. He is a former ITV News producer having worked for 3 years on their three main flagship programmes.
Few people entering the sector have his level of experience and insight of dealing with every crisis imaginable. From political scandals to sex scandals, to privacy issues, he has dealt day in day out for 6 years with the issues that have led the TV news bulletins and dominated the newspaper front pages.
Giles regularly appears as a political and media commentator on BBC, Sky & CNN. He also writes for various national publications including the Times and Spectator.
Contact Information: gkenningham@trafalgar-strategy.co.uk
https://www.trafalgar-strategy.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/giles-kenningham-mbe-96515a2/
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