Mike Bodnar is Immediate Creative Services, a registered New Zealand company.

 

Mike draws on over 25 years’ professional communications experience to provide tailored solutions for strategic and tactical communication challenges.

 

Key areas of strength

 

  • Superb communicator
  • Creative-innovator-visionary
  • Organised
  • Project specialist

 

Mike Bodnar APR

With an extensive track record in public relations/communications and broadcasting, Mike combines an ability for lateral, creative thinking with experience in and understanding of private and public sector functionality. He provides focused, quality, strategic or operational communication support.

 

Trading under his company name of Immediate Creative Services, Mike specialises in project-based challenges, either short- or long-term (i.e. up to six months).

 

 

Key skills and strengths

 

  • Strategic communications development
  • Operational communications management
  • Project management
  • Media management
  • Cross-media expertise (online, video, photographic, written, etc)
  • Oral and written communication to an excellent standard

  • Rapid understanding of client’s environment and business
  • Superb manager and organiser
  • Motivated; self-starter
  • Able to meet budgets and tight deadlines
  • Broad general knowledge
  • Attention to detail
  • Sense of humour

 

Work History – Executive Summary

 After qualifying and working as a primary school teacher, Mike joined the broadcasting industry, moving rapidly through radio and into television. His TV career saw him move up from continuity announcing to senior journalist and regional news presenter, before putting his wide range of skills to use in the public relations-communications sector.

 

He developed a company which employed four full-time staff and numerous contractors, providing a range of communication services including:

 

  • Public Relations (communications strategic assistance and full project management)
  • Media and Presentation Training
  • Writing (media releases, articles, brochures, books, annual reports, etc.)
  • Television and Video Production (from concept to completion)
  • Desktop Publishing (annual reports, brochures, newsletters, books, etc.)
  • Television Commercial Production (marketing strategy support).

Immediate’s main business was in the area of corporate communications and strategic support. Clients included The New Zealand Customs Service, Civil Defence, New Zealand Post, Telecom, National Mutual, Treasury, NZ Institute of Valuers, and the Inland Revenue.

 

Issues management was a particular strength, but the company also supplied regular media training to a variety of corporate clients including New Zealand Post, Civil Defence, and the New Zealand Fire Service.

 

In the early 1990s with the start of a family Mike downscaled the company and concentrated on freelancing as an independent, moving through a variety of projects including broadcast production, as well as continuing to provide key communication services such as writing and media training to clients.

 

Today Mike continues to operate independently as Immediate Creative Services, and focuses on projects that employ his wide variety of cross-media skills and experience. He specialises in strategic services (such as communication strategy development), operational communications management, and supplies individual writing, video or photographic services as required.

 

Mike is Accredited in Public Relations (APR) through the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand. He is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades for communications work in a variety of media.

 

Accolades etc

Mike received a prestigious Gold Quill Award from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) for a staff-training resource he produced for National Mutual, plus a Special Recognition Award for creative use of the television medium and a Certificate of Excellence from the International Television Association (ITVA).

 

He also received an Award for Excellence for the Wellington Regional Council’s internal staff magazine Coast to Coast from the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ), and later another award from PRINZ for the Landonline internal e-newsletter.

 

Conferences

In his capacity as a communications professional Mike has three times been invited to speak at New Zealand communications conferences as well as a high-profile public sector conference in Canberra.

 

Publications, programmes, etc

 

  • The Road Ahead – Govt. Print, 1989. A handbook for new drivers, designed to complement the Road Code
  • Personal Security (with M. Hodge) – Govt. Print, 1989. A handbook on personal security options for individuals
  • Number Eight Wire – a six-part series on New Zealand creativity and innovation produced for Radio New Zealand
  • Coastguard Clear – a one-hour television documentary about the work of the Royal New Zealand Coastguard for TVNZ
  • Countless magazine and newspaper articles, brochures, etc.

 Interests

 

  • Motorcycling
  • Photography    
  • Writing (stories, articles, features, etc)
  • Art      
  • Movies
  • Science and astronomy
  • The Internet
  • Reading           
  • Wine
  • Skiing
  • Stand-up comedy          

CONTACT IMMEDIATE CREATIVE SERVICES

Email: mgbodnar@gmail.com

Tel: +64+4 477 1043

Mob: +27 208 9453