Conley Willox Public Affairs

ANZ Bank

ANZ engaged Conley Willox to consult on communications strategies and to write and edit various corporate publications, including the ANZ Services Report 2010, the first in a biennial series.

Conley Willox also worked with ANZ to develop editorial for a new publication, CEO Agenda, directly distributed to the CEOs of the top 1500 companies in Australia. The aim of the magazine was to inform and engage CEOs and CFOs with the best thinking and writing in corporate finance, management and strategy, to enhance ANZ Institutional's customer relationships and to position ANZ Institutional as a leader in financial strategy.

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Asialink at the University of Melbourne

Conley Willox have delivered a broad range of high-level public affairs services to Asialink, including strategies to generate support from corporate and government sectors, speech and report writing for senior Executives and Board members and managing media partnerships for major initiatives including The Future of our Alliance: Australia and the US, with United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2010 and the 2010 Asialink Asia Society National Forum, held at Parliament House, Canberra.

We worked closely with Asialink to develop, produce and launch two major continuing initiatives: the Asialink Essays series and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Melbourne Institute Asialink Index of Asia engagement. Conley Willox also conceived and produced the Asialink/AiGroup report Engaging Asia: Getting it Right for Australian Business, launched in March 2011.

The Asia Education Foundation

The Asia Education Foundation has engaged Conley Willox to develop new concepts for national conference reports, redesign and write guidebooks for teacher study tours, and prepare submissions for Government on studies of Asia in Australian schools. In 2009, Conley Willox helped launch a new broad based Business Alliance for Asia Literacy.

Conley Willox developed and negotiated a six-page national supplement in The Australian on Asia education in Australian schools and in May 2010 Conley Willox also devised and managed a nationwide print and electronic media campaign to disseminate an AEF report on Asian languages in Australian schools. This media campaign delivered positive coverage for the AEF in twenty-four print and online articles and seventeen radio interviews and reports in national, state and regional media including a feature segment on the ABC's 7.30 Report.

The Australian Government

The Australian Government engaged Conley Willox to raise awareness and support for their humanitarian program, "Destroy a Minefield".

Conley Willox devised a national media strategy and a corporate launch for the program, implemented public and corporate engagement programs, prepared newsletters, shell press releases and other support materials, and wrote speeches for the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Parliamentary Secretary.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore

Conley Willox was engaged to advise, develop and deliver strategies to raise the profile of AmCham in Singapore, and create a positive environment for government relations.

AmCham Singapore worked with Conley Willox to establish a Free Trade Taskforce of experts to explore competition policy issues, manpower and other trade matters. The taskforce identified and reported members' concerns to the negotiators working on the United States Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

Conley Willox also developed an award-winning Corporate Social Responsibility strategy for AmCham Singapore. Beginning with Corporate Community Day, supported by the United States Embassy in Singapore and Singapore's National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, the strategy grew to include a workplace HIV/AIDS initiative, managed AmCham Singapore's immediate response to 9/11 and inspired thirty companies and 900 volunteers to develop community partnerships and collective action.