163 | UK Enterprise Awards 2023 Apr23222 Best Corporate & B2B PR Consultancy 2023 Schon&Co. is a specialist corporate and B2B PR consultancy, helping brands and businesses to communicate effectively with their customers and stakeholders. We spoke with the firm’s owner regarding its unique offering and how it strives to ensure client service excellence, as it is crowned in the UK Enterprise Awards 2023. Founded and led by Jess Schon, Schon&Co. is driven by a relentless desire to guide its clients in creating meaningful and lasting impact through their communications. Working with companies of all sizes across a range of industries, from technology and engineering to logistics and healthcare, Schon&Co.’s mission is to prepare, promote and protect its clients – providing a clear perspective, as well as expert counsel, when they really need it. “We specialise in areas like thought leadership and executive profiling, corporate positioning and messaging, crisis communications and strategic counsel, and media relations,” Jess explains. “And through all of our partnerships, we make some simple promises to truly help drive change.” Having spent decades at leading agencies, Jess has a wealth of experience developing robust strategies, engaging content and award-winning campaigns that result in meaningful brand interactions. She launched Schon&Co. with the belief that corporate communications can and should be better. The biggest promise that the firm can offer to its clients, continues Jess, is being able to act as an extension to their existing teams; spending time really getting to know the clients’ business, their teams and their needs. This in turn helps Schon&Co. to support its clients’ business goals, as well as their communications goals. “This focus on driving change and meaningful interactions helps us as a team too,” she elaborates. “As it gives us a collective purpose.” Being downto-earth, straight-talking, honest, and accountable for its clients are the core values that Schon&Co. abides by. In order to do this, Jess and the team have structured the agency to consist of smaller, experienced teams of senior consultants. These consultants work on fewer briefs in order to get to know the clients well and gain their trust, without having their attention split across lots of projects. “In a world of change, we understand clients are looking for more efficient ways of operating, whilst still having the confidence that performance won’t be compromised,” Jess elaborates. “That is why we bring together experienced, specialist teams who are specifically equipped to offer clients the services and skills they need to communicate better – and are experienced enough to give them honest feedback and straight-talking strategic counsel.” With regards to its people, Jess tells us that the firm’s promise to its clients of being down-toearth, straight-talking, honest and accountable extends to the team at Schon&Co. too, and in turn, the company expects the same from its employees. When recruiting new team members, Jess looks for like-minded people who don’t mind rolling up their sleeves and getting stuck in - colleagues who are genuine, smart and have a curiosity about comms. “Our aim has been to offer a flexible environment so the team can work around their interests outside of work,” she says. “It’s something I’m particularly passionate about – making sure that talented people don’t stop getting opportunities because their personal and professional lives don’t align.” This refreshing approach is just one of the reasons that Schon&Co. recently gained recognition in the UK Enterprise Awards and was named Best Corporate & B2B PR Consultancy 2023. Delighted by this prestigious accolade, Jess now has her sights firmly set on a future of growth for the company as she welcomes brilliant new team members to the agency, and enjoys a prosperous second half of the year doing what the company does best – continuing to support its clients in their comms journeys. Company: Schon&Co. Ltd Web Address: www.schonandco.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/schon-co “Schon&Co. has been working with The APC for several years now and they are brilliant. They have built up strong relationships with our network members, writing press releases and case studies, gaining impressive coverage for the members in their local areas. As a network built up of over 100 independent small businesses, they understand our needs and those of our members. Jess has also recently led brand narrative workshops which has helped with our position and messaging within the market. They feel like part of the team and nothing is too much trouble. Always calm and efficient, they are great in a crisis. I couldn’t do my job without Jess and the team by my side.” Jane Hart, Marketing Director at The APC
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