David Yelland

David Yelland, former newspaper editor, speaker on crisis management and communications.

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David Yelland, who established Kitchen Table Partners as a start-up in 2015, is one of the most experienced senior level communications advisors in the world today. His clients include many leading people in their fields – in businesses across all sectors – in the UK, the United States and elsewhere in the world too.

David has sixteen years’ experience at the top of the sector including eleven years’ experience at two of the world’s leading communications companies: Brunswick Group LLP, where he was a Partner for almost nine years, and Weber Shandwick, where he was Senior Vice Chairman in the UK and Ireland for two years.

David had a successful eighteen-year career in journalism, starting on a small weekly newspaper in England and culminating in being made Editor of The Sun, the world’s biggest selling English language daily, at the age of 35. He was Editor for five years. David was previously both business editor and later deputy editor of the New York Post. He lived in the United States for seven years. He is an Alumnus of the Harvard Business School having completed the Advanced Management Program.

David is a Life Patron of the NSPCC and a Trustee of Action on Addiction, a major British charity. He has also written a novel, published by Penguin Books.

David currently co-hosts the Radio 4 programme and very popular podcast, When It Hits The Fan. As they watch the week’s biggest PR disasters unfold, no-one is better qualified to dig deep inside the world of crisis managers and spin doctors as David Yelland and Simon Lewis.

Contact David Yelland via a Specialist Speakers agent for speaking and presentation in both in-person and virtual settings. Email info@specialistspeakers.com or call +44 1455 633289 worldwide.