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Claire Maloney

Partner
A seasoned corporate and financial communications strategist, Claire has spent nearly 30 years advising senior leaders and global organizations on business-critical issues.

She specializes in M&A, organizational change and financial institutions, helping clients build the trust, credibility and clarity that creates lasting strategic advantage.

She specializes in M&A, organizational change and financial institutions, helping clients build the trust, credibility and clarity that creates lasting strategic advantage.

“I am a huge believer in and advocate for the power of flexible working. I have personally benefited from this in my career at Kekst CNC. It has helped me immensely in seeking to balance family responsibilities and career. I am convinced that flexibility has made me a better adviser, a more creative consultant, as well as a better mum.”


Claire is a highly experienced corporate and financial communications strategist and board-level adviser with nearly 30 years of experience guiding senior leaders and global organizations on how to communicate with clarity and impact on business-critical topics.

Claire works at the intersection of strategy, storytelling and leadership positioning, through high-profile M&A, post-merger integration, organizational change and issues/crisis management. Her expertise spans multiple sectors including financial services, metals and mining, TMT, and fashion/luxury goods.

She is best known for her deep experience advising financial institutions — from banks and asset managers to asset owners and insurers — and now co-leads Kekst CNC’s Financial Institutions sector practice globally.

Claire has advised governments, industry bodies and multinational companies across Europe, the United States and beyond. She helps organizations and leaders build the trust, credibility and clarity that creates long-term strategic advantage, especially when the stakes are highest. Claire is particularly active in helping clients navigate complex organizational change to drive value creation and garner stakeholder support.

She is a practiced profile-builder and engagement strategist, as comfortable in publicly listed environments as she is advising private companies.

Claire also specializes in working directly with senior executives on increasing their personal impact. She is an active coach and trainer, advising clients on presentational delivery and enabling them to engage effectively in critical moments — from boardroom discussions and investor communications to large-scale organizational change.


Insights

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Executive Communications in a High-Stakes World

Each episode of Above the Noise features insights from our experts and industry leaders on the trends transforming how organizations communicate, engage, and build trust. In this episode Partners Claire Maloney and Dom Reynolds focus on how expectations on senior leaders have shifted, and what it takes to communicate with clarity, confidence and consistency across audiences and platforms.

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Kekst CNC at Chatham House Climate Change Conference 2022

Taking place one month ahead of COP27, Chatham House is hosting its annual Climate Change to explore new pathways to a climate-resilient future.

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The Time is Now

Sustainability has long been viewed as an ambition that belongs far into the future. But the situation in Ukraine has brought these future musings into sharp and immediate relief in a way that no regional flooding or fire has done before.

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