Manara Global is built around three C’s

 
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COUNSEL

We believe in making a difference by thinking bigger and creating value and impact for our clients through our strategic counsel. We achieve this by establishing relationships with our clients that are based on trust, where we utilize our extensive experience, and by providing our expert advisory that always delivers impactful and meaningful solutions to their challenges.

 
 
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CREATIVITY

We believe that words and ideas can change the world. From big ideas through to solving complex challenges, we always look at everything through the lens of creativity to deliver value, create impact, and is human-centric in tone and approach.

 
 
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CONVERGENCE

We believe every client, every challenge, and every solution is formed by bringing together the right team combined with the right set of skills, depth of experience, and deep expertise. We operate freely without restrictions to converge the greatest minds to deliver the best ideas and strategies that have transformational power to deliver for our clients. We enable possibilities to become realities.

 
 
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STRATEGIC REPUTATION MANAGEMENT

We have built our careers on the creation, promotion and protection of reputations.  We provide strategic counsel to governments, public companies, private or family businesses, high net worth individuals and causes.  We combine a deep understanding of your ambition, the issues you face within the complex stakeholder ecosystem you operate within, both locally and globally, to develop compelling and creative reputation management programs – that are human-centric, purpose-led and aim to create trust with your audiences.   

PURPOSE, VISION & VALUES

Organizations and brands with purpose at their heart, grow. Purpose adds real value and is a must have for any future focused organization, that wants success with longevity - it is good for business and good for the world. We will help you define your purpose, your reason for being, and the positive impact you make on society.  We help bring your organizational values to life, making them relevant, and aligned with the company mission to become the connective tissue that drives your culture. We help define your vision, behavioural values, credo and culture that will turn your purpose into reality and bring sustained success.

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

We recognize the significant role employees play in any organization's success. We specialize in employee engagement, from crafting compelling employee value propositions to devising internal communication strategies that inspire and equip employees with the organizational story in a meaningful way. By galvanizing employees, we transform them into powerful advocates and brand ambassadors, elevating your organization's public face and community presence. Trust us to help you unlock the full potential of your greatest asset.

SOFT POWER

We work with Governments to build national soft power / public diplomacy frameworks that forge a clear proposition underpinned by the right communication strategy. We aim to deliver on national objectives to bring to the world the best positioning that maximizes the strengths and capabilities. We work with businesses to define their own soft power assets and strategic approaches to achieve their ambitions whilst both aligning with key partners and delivering powerful communications that truly resonates.

EXECUTIVE POSITIONING & MEDIA COACHING

We work with CEO’s, Government officials, founders and C-Suite to help define their own leadership positions and articulate their own powerful narratives. We help leaders to define and develop their story, distinctive thought leadership positions and executive messaging that conveys meaning, value and impact. We help equip leaders and executives with the key presentational skills to navigate media interviews, speeches and presentations through one to one media training and coaching to deliver with impact to best bring your story to life across a range of communications formats. All within the context of your operational eco-system.

CRISIS & ISSUES MANAGEMENT

We understand that a crisis is not a matter of "if," but "when," and the key to mitigating their impact is being prepared. Using our Prepare, Manage, and Emerge model, we equip organizations with the necessary tools and resources to navigate through challenges effectively. Using decades of experience, we develop a tailored and comprehensive strategy to tackle crises head-on, designed to safeguard reputation and help organizations to emerge stronger and more resilient.

COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE

One of the biggest challenges to successful communications is not having in place a clear communications architecture underpinned by the strong systems and foundations that deliver effective and efficient strategic communications. We work with Governments and businesses to define their communications architecture, assess their capabilities and define ways to strengthen the foundations to ensure communications impact is both maximized and operationally effective for the long term.

INSIGHT & INTELLIGENCE

We gather the key insights that really matter to drive better decision making, deliver market intelligence that provides a clear horizon view to make a difference to the world around you. Our insights and analysis will drive communications that will make you stand out from the crowd and ultimately, make your stakeholders proud.  We develop thought leadership that will drive long term positioning and reputational equity. We provide market entry insights and a plan. Understanding the landscape, enablers and barriers to ensure entry to a market is considered, locally relevant and successful.

 
 
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NARRATIVE, STORY-TELLING & IDENTITY

We are storytellers. We will take what you have in your armoury and bring this to life by developing your compelling and engaging narrative and content, infused with creativity and always relentlessly human-centric in tone and approach. We also help create the assets you need to be instantly recognisable, consistent and uniquely differentiated.

COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY

Once we have your story we will help you develop integrated communications strategies to bring your story to life with your stakeholders: whether it be to engage employees, key opinion formers, governments, media or citizens.

BIG IDEAS & PLATFORMS

We are creative thinkers. We believe that in a world that is now more connected, faster and more cluttered communications-wise, it is bold creative ideas that will drive businesses forward. Our ambition is always to create big ideas and fame platforms that can help you stand out from the crowd so that the business can point to at the end or during the project or program and say ‘we did that - we made that difference’. 

 
 
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PARTNERSHIPS & SHARED AGENDAS

With ecosystems more inter-connected than ever before, shared agendas have been created providing opportunities to smartly identify and demonstrate alignment with. We help to identify these shared agendas which opens the door to fruitful and exciting wider opportunities that deliver mutual benefits through the power of partnerships. These partnerships and collaborations can provide reputation currency that can be banked, enabling reputations to be further enhanced and reinforced both locally and globally.

GREAT MINDS

With every project, we converge the greatest minds, connecting the best people with ideas and possibilities to rise to the challenge of delivering your ambitions for now, tomorrow and over the longer term.  However unique your problem, however untold your story, wherever you are at on your reputational journey, we can plug-in the specialist talents and humans you need to get to the right solution to reshape conversations around you, your issue and organisation.

THE REPUTATION ECOSYSTEM

We see strength in collaboration.  We are happy to work in partnership with ‘competitors’ and partners. We are happy to share our ideas and best practice. The better everyone is in this space, the better off our clients are, the better informed the world is. We want to play a leading role in the global reputation management ecosystem.