Anna Feuchtwang is a communicator at heart. Having started her professional career as a reporter on a local newspaper in Croydon, learning her trade via an indentured apprenticeship, it was in public relations that she found her true calling. By the late 1980s, she had moved on to the communications department at Oxfam, which she would go on to head. She says communication skills have stood her in good stead for leadership.
"The so-called softer skills around being able to articulate a vision and an idea, and to be able to listen and absorb and take on other people's ideas, is what it takes to be a good communications or public affairs director," she says.
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