Testimonials
“Katrina has been an invaluable source of expertise and advice to me for many years. She has provided first class media training to both myself and the organisations I have worked for, and gone beyond the traditional trainer to provide insight into media and crisis management. I first started working with Katrina when I was very green in the media space, and her help, support and coaching was greatly valued. Katrina always built a deep level of trust with executives she trained, and did this quickly.” Chandran Vigneswarren,Former Communications Manager at BP Australia & Global Carbon Capture & Storage Institute
“As the media officer at the City of Port Phillip, I hired Katrina Byers, then at Media Manoeuvres, to provide media training to at least four mayors. Katrina was outstanding in the way she could tailor the training to the particular needs, skill levels and personalities of the different mayors. Her ability to work with the scenario I provided and tease out all the media angles was spot-on. Katrina established a ready rapport with the mayors, gave clear and practical advice and they benfitted greatly from the whole experience.” Carmel Shute
“Katrina has inspired me and other managers in my office with her unique approach to media training. She is passionate, incisive, challenging and supportive. Katrina delivers results, and is able to pitch the training at exactly the right level based on individual executive needs. In mock interviews, she delivers her questions with razor sharp precision and gets her head around complex issues to help the client deliver cut through messages and assist them tell their story. Katrina is definitely a person you want in your corner. I highly recommend her. Paul Conroy,A Communications and Media Manager with the Victorian Government
“I can highly recommend Katrina as a Media/PR expert. At Community Sector Banking we had a need to promote a new banking initiative nationally using different types of media. Katrina - provided timely advise, highly useful communication content and experienced recommendations when any issues presented.” Jennifer Hibbs, CEO of Queen Victoria Market
“Katrina made understanding the media easy. She delivers information in an engaging and meaningful way. Her insights made dealing with the media and other curly communications situations a lot easier. She gave me the confidence to tell my story and made me believe that I had something worth saying. Billy Curry, Marketing Manager, Community Sector Banking​
“Katrina’s training was brilliant. Constructive, insightful and I have no doubt will have a great impact on my trainee going forward. It was a really valuable session for me to sit in on as well – sometimes you don’t realise the questions you are not asking until someone else asks them! ” Jemma Lee, Senior Account Executive, Liquid Ideas