Who
Our communication consultants are international communication, presentation and media coaches who specialise in healthcare and pharmaceuticals.
They are award winning presenter broadcasters, producers, editors and correspondents who have previously been responsible for health, medicine and science related media coverage at BBC, ITN, ITV, BBC Radio 4, BBC Breakfast News, Channel 4 and 5, CNN and Sky.
As news broadcast figureheads many host live corporate events and international press conferences and regularly chair NHS and government communication forums, patient group discussions and scientific faculty debates.
Our multilingual communication consultants coach medical experts and business leaders in the native language as well as in English.
Core team
John Clare is an internationally renowned and highly regarded media, communications and crisis consultant. He coaches both medical and business leaders from the pharmaceutical industry and scientific organisations as they prepare for a major presentation, speech or media interview.
His unique expertise is creating and communicating clarity from complexity. He helps individuals and teams craft and refine complex pharmaceutical product messages, trial results and safety signals to ensure the media, analysts and customers understand them as well as you do.
John is also regularly asked to host and moderate international press conferences, patient group discussions and scientific debates alongside eminent Faculty.
He holds the prestigious Communiqué Judges Award for Outstanding Healthcare Communications alongside Jamie Oliver, for his healthy school meals campaign and Dr Tom Stuttaford, veteran health correspondent of the Times Newspaper. John’s advice and counsel is regularly sought by communication experts in the pharmaceutical field all over the world.
Following 18 years in journalism, as a reporter, producer and broadcast presenter for ITN, and commissioning editor for the Daily Mail Newspaper, John founded LionsDen Communications in 1992.
Tessa Hopkins is a senior communications professional. Motivated, creative and experienced, she has held senior positions at both Glaxo Wellcome Plc and MSD, two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. As a director of LionsDen she advises multinational companies on issues and crisis management, internal communications and change management.
Over more than 20 years she has proved herself at the highest level. She was a Director and Vice President of Burson Marsteller, one of the world’s leading PR consultancies, and is acknowledged as a natural leader with highly-developed management and people development skills.
She has wide experience of issue management, public affairs and all aspects of internal and external communications. She is now a director of LionsDen Communications and makes regular conference presentations about communication issues.
Until July 1995 she was Associate Director, Group Public Affairs for Glaxo Wellcome Plc, where she was employed for her strategic vision and was in charge of all internal and product-related communications. Before leaving Glaxo Wellcome she co-ordinated the integration communications for the merger of Glaxo & Wellcome.
She was previously Director of Human Resources and Public Affairs for Europe for DuPont Merck and before that, Director of Public Affairs for MSD, where she played a key role in shaping the company’s communications strategy and direction.
Tessa now advises companies and consultancies on strategic communications management, issue and crisis management, internal communications, merger communications and organises courses on all aspects of communications activities.
She has undertaken a number of research projects for companies, assisted and facilitated strategic and communications planning sessions and regularly runs management development workshops