Think Experience

Fiona Murcott

Think Business Solutions founder and director Fiona Murcott has almost 30 years’ experience in marketing, communication and journalism.  This includes inhouse management roles with blue-chip companies such as BHP Billiton and Thiess; and since 2004, a successful consultancy that services a diverse range of prestigious, repeat-business clients.  For the past 17 years, Fiona has been providing business-development, marketing, communication and stakeholder-engagement programs that positively impact her clients’ target audiences and bottom lines. Across the arts, aviation, construction, engineering, environmental science, government, interior design, not-for-profit, property, rail, resources and recruitment sectors, Fiona has successfully delivered:

• Business-development strategy, including research, client relationship and contact database management
• Marketing strategy and campaigns, including brand development, advertising and direct marketing, and high-level marketing collateral such as brochures, speeches, presentations, award submissions, audio visual materials and sales displays
• Online content development and project management, including social-media management
• Tender management, coordination, writing and editing

• National, state and community-targeted media campaigns
• Crisis and issues management strategy and hands-on support, including media coordination

• Public relations and communication strategies, including stakeholder and media relations programs
• Stakeholder engagement strategy, consultation planning and implementation, community liaison (including experience in promoting Indigenous participation) and sponsorship management
• Social impact assessment and management, and community reference group coordination
• Stakeholder-targeted entertainment, including community and customer events, and media launches.

Amanda Leacy

Senior Advisor – Marketing, Communication and Place Making Amanda Leacy is a seasoned communication and marketing executive with an extensive experience in the property, construction, resources and events industries. During the past 20 years, she has worked for multi-national and ASX organisations including Thiess, Sanctuary Cove and FKP Property Group, as well as for local and state governments. Through managing multi-million dollar marketing, media and sponsorship campaigns, and developing and implementing highly sensitive public and private community engagement programs, Amanda has accumulated broad experience in:

• Marketing and communication strategy
• Brand management
• Market research
• Customer relations
• Place making, including Brisbane’s now-famous Eat Street Markets
• Advertising and media management
• Direct marketing
• Web and e-marketing
• Sponsorship management
• Community engagement and stakeholder liaison
• Events management.

Fiona and Amanda have been working together on a broad range of projects for the past two decades.