About Us

Stake Communications is an independent entity with a fresh approach to communication.

Founded in 2007, Stake offers strategic communications counsel and campaign implementation on both a retainer and Interim appointment basis. Lara leads all Stake client activity and is supported by a talented team of tactical PR specialists covering sectors such as telecoms, technology, travel, professional services and pharmaceuticals.

For a refreshing mix of the strategic and the creative, contact us on info@stakecommunications.com

Lara Cresswell, founder

Lara is a corporate communications trouble shooter for clients facing business critical launch or transition periods, including mergers & acquisitions, restructure & change management programmes, global rebranding projects and overhauling global Corporate Comms functions.

She also develops and conducts crisis management workshops, crisis plan reviews and scenario training for clients including mining companies in Australia and Turkey, pharmaceutical companies in UK, France, Belgium and Switzerland, and FMCG companies in the UK and US.

Given this expertise, clients facing skills gaps as a result of hiring freezes or maternity leave often turn to Lara for mentoring of their existing teams, as well as for ad-hoc counsel on PR strategy, perception audits, brand messaging, and crisis management.

In the past 20+ years she’s worked in highly regulated and closely scrutinised sectors such as fintech (Skrill, Paysafe), aviation (Jet Airways), pharmaceuticals (Mundipharma, Roche, Quintiles) and infrastructure (Atkins, WSP), as well as the fast paced arenas of mobile devices (Motorola) and digital recruitment (Evenbase, Jobsite.co.uk).

In 2007 Lara founded Stake Communications to offer select clients a mix of strategic and creative brand activity. Previously, she was on the UK Board of an international PR agency as head of its ‘business & technology’ division, as well as the agency-wide crisis management offering.

Lara’s agency career began in Australia, with a move to the UK in 1999 meaning she has run both in-house and agency teams across developed and emerging markets and is adept at supporting commercial strategy while managing teams across multiple time zones and cultures.