Chris Savage tells PRC boss Stuart Gregor to back off PRIA and co-operate
LR: Alex Hayes, Stuart Gregor, Chris Savage
Respected PR veteran and chief operating officer of STW Group Chris Savage has told the chairman of Public Relations Council (PRC) Stuart Gregor to stop “having a go” at the Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA) and urged the two organisations to work together.
The comments came in a forthright exchange between the pair during the Question Time session at the CommsCon conference in Sydney yesterday, which also saw Gregor admit that the “first conversations” about a possible expansion of the PRC to include former members of PRIA, expanding to a broader membership beyond its traditional base of 35 consumer PR agencies.
It follows Gregor calling for industry bodies PRIA and the PRC to merge after last month’s ousting of former national president Terri-Helen Gaynor and the mass resignation of the PRIA national board.
If Gregor is supposed to be such a PR whizz, why does he continue to come across as such a bully. He’s not doing his rep any favours.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for PRIA to offer “more value”. I’ve been a member on two separate occasions – this is the second time they’ve had an internal “revolution” and so far, I haven’t seen any changes AGAIN. I’m still not getting responses to questions and I’m still waiting on someone to action an application form I sent in April last year. I won’t be renewing my membership.
@Leah
Get in touch with me on Twitter (link above) and I will bring it up with the NSW council and get some action.
I was also sceptical of the ability for any council of any kind to offer real change in the comms industry.
However, I decided to get involved and join the PRIA council to give it a kick along and hopefully pull it back from the brink.
Totally agree with Leah, I was incredibly disappointed by the lack of support of members by the PRIA. It’s a terribly disfunctional organisation that needs to be shut down. The only benefit to membership if you’re an agency is the RCG and the Communications Council should take this over.