Our team

Michael White

Director
Michael co-leads Kekst CNC Intelligence, integrating advisory expertise with advanced analytics to support clients during their most critical moments.

He serves on Kekst CNC’s global management team as a senior leader of Kekst CNC Intelligence, applying insights to corporate positioning and reputation management mandates.

He serves on Kekst CNC’s global management team as a senior leader of Kekst CNC Intelligence, applying insights to corporate positioning and reputation management mandates.

Michael has advised some of the world’s largest companies, working as an embedded member of their teams and pioneering new digital services.

As a trusted adviser to Kekst CNC’s global client base, Michael develops and leads integrated communications strategies aimed at elevating and reshaping perceptions. While sector agnostic, his specialized experience spans technology, healthcare, and financial services.

His work includes the development of cutting-edge reputation management capabilities, such as misinformation and disinformation mitigation, generative AI positioning, and deriving deep communications insights from online discourse.

Michael is an active contributor to the communications profession, frequently speaking at industry events and participating in media debates. In 2018, he served as a contributing editor to the book Reputation Management: The Future of Corporate Communications and Public Relations. From 2015 to 2017, he was recognized as one of the top UK PR bloggers by Vuelio.


Insights

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Video

Mis- and Disinformation

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 of Above the Noise, Kekst CNC Partner Mikey Hoare and Director Michael White discuss how the rise of generative AI is changing the misinformation and disinformation landscape. They explore why false narratives have become a growing business risk and share practical approaches for identifying threats, protecting reputation and strengthening organisational resilience.

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Event

A Conversation on Trust with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales joined us in London to discuss the principles behind his new book, The Seven Rules of Trust, and shared the lessons that have guided Wikipedia’s evolution into one of the world’s most influential knowledge platforms. Founded in 2001, Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia powered by an online community of millions of editors, with English Wikipedia currently having over 260,000 active editors. The discussion provided insights not only into the mechanics of online communities, but also into the broader dynamics of credibility, transparency, and reputation.

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Podcast

Episode 22: How Fortune 100 CEOs Post on LinkedIn

In our final deep-dive conversation into market-specific findings from our Global CEO LinkedIn Tracker, Kekst CNC Intelligence experts Antonio Ortolani, Claire O’Connor, and Michael White discuss in detail how the Fortune 100’s "Social CEO" behaves on LinkedIn, including a consideration on how much investment executive communications teams should put towards video, and what it means now that LinkedIn is becoming the de rigueur social media platform for leaders.

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