Communicate with Confidence.
Senior marketing leadership and responsible AI guidance for organisations navigating growth, change and high-stakes communication.
I've been in your room. With nearly three decades working inside organisations at a senior level, I know where communication breaks down, what it's costing your organisation and what it takes to fix it.
Work With Me
Senior Marketing & Communications Support
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When you need someone who can step in, read the situation quickly and get things moving without a lengthy handover. I work alongside CEOs, founders and marketing communications leaders who need senior thinking on a problem right now, without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
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Brand and Communications Strategy. Reputational Risk. Bid Coaching. Thought Leadership. Fractional CMO Support.
Build Your Capability
Marketing Communications Capability Programs
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When you need your team to communicate more confidently, think more strategically and build the kind of capability that stays long after our engagement ends. Practical workshops, coaching and training programs for marketing teams, leaders and organisations navigating change.
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Marketing Communications Strategy. Presentation and Influence. AI for High-Stakes Communication. Leadership Communication. Executive Coaching.
AI for High-Stakes Communication
Most organisations don't need more AI. They need better judgement about when, where and how to use it.
Your team is already using AI. The question is whether they're using it well enough for the environment you're working in.
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In professional services, government, aged care and corporate communications, accuracy, tone, context and judgement matter. AI can help people work faster and think differently. It can also produce confident answers that are incomplete, inaccurate or simply wrong.
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Already delivered for parliamentary offices and professional services teams.
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My practical one-day workshop helps teams use AI responsibly and effectively, with the judgement, verification practices and guardrails that high-stakes work demands. Fully tailored to your environment and your team's specific risks.
Authenticity in AI
This video was created using an AI avatar of me. The point isn’t the technology. It’s knowing when AI helps, when it doesn't and what still needs human judgement.
Communication is a business capability.
what i believe
It shapes leadership, influences decisions, builds trust and protects reputation.
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Technology will continue to change. Human judgement won't.
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AI is changing how we work, but good judgement still determines whether it helps or harms.
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That's why my work isn't about teaching tools. It's about helping people think clearly, communicate with confidence and build capability that lasts.
Elaine Schillinger
Founder & Principal Consultant
the approach
When marketing and communication start holding the organisation back.
The idea is good, the room is ready and somehow it still doesn't land. Or something important is happening in the organisation and the communication around it isn't keeping up. Or a business is ready to grow and the brand and marketing aren't there yet.
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I've spent my career working inside those moments, as a senior marketer, a GM, a facilitator and a consultant across corporate, professional services, aged care and consumer goods. I work with leaders who need senior marketing and communications support without a full-time hire, teams that need to present and influence better under pressure, and smaller businesses ready to get their brand right and run it themselves.
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The tools I bring are always practical. The coaching is always human. And the goal is always the same: you leave with something that works without me.
What it's like to work together.
Immediate Momentum
Real Experience
Practical Capability
No lengthy onboarding, no easing in. Whether I'm stepping in as a senior consultant or running a program for your team, I come prepared and I get moving. You'll feel the difference from the first conversation.
You get someone who has actually done this work at a senior level, not someone who has studied it. I bring real world experience into every engagement, which means the advice is direct, practical and grounded in what actually works under pressure.
The goal is never to make you dependent on me. Whether it's a framework your team can use tomorrow, a program that changes how your people communicate, or a strategic foundation you can build on, the work I do leaves something behind.
FREE 3-MINUTE ASSESSMENT
Not sure where your team's communication gaps are?
Most organisations have one or two specific places where communication quietly lets them down. That might be in meetings, in proposals or in the way ideas get presented internally.
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The Comms Confidence Quiz takes three minutes and gives you a clear picture of where to focus.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
A few things people have said.
"I want to thank Elaine for the incredible contribution she made in her two stints with Fujifilm. Through the challenging period of COVID, she played a key role ensuring we kept both clients and staff informed through many difficult changes."
Executive GM, Fujifilm Data Management Solutions
"Elaine was a great facilitator, highly engaging and able to relate the content to each one of us."
HR DIrector, blue cross aged care
"I received the second highest feedback score for my recent keynote speech. I couldn't have done it without Elaine's help and guidance."
