Di Burton FCIPR FCIPD MInstD
Managing Director
Di is the managing director of Cicada, which she founded in 1987. She advises at board level on leadership issues and stakeholder management for a range of blue chip organisations, and undertakes public affairs work.
For more than 15 years she has been directing the MA in Public Communication programme for the Government Communication Network (GCN) at Leeds Trinity University College, where Di is a Consultant Partner.
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Di is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and leads several CIPR workshops, covering topics from employee engagement to stakeholder management.
As an industry expert, Di has worked at 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet Office, and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. Di is an external advisor for the London College of Communication, and judges the annual CIPR Excellence Awards, PR Week Awards and Fresh PR Awards.
Di is a member of London’s Reform Club and Yorkshire’s Two Percent Club, is listed in Debrett’s People of Todayand in 2006 was named as Ackrill Media Group Business Personality of the Year. She is also listed in PR Week’s Power List of the most influential people in public relations and was named in the Yorkshire Post’s Top 100 Entrepreneurs special supplement in June 2010.
She has attended Harvard Business School and sits on a number of advisory boards.Di is also a Yorkshire Patron, a member of NADFAS and a trustee of Harrogate Theatre.
Three things you may not know about Di are she’s fired live ammo from an AK-47 in Zimbabwe, filmed in the world’s deepest goldmine in South Africa and survived a gruelling week on a Dominican desert island for a reality TV show.
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