Property specialist Helen Lambell at Splash PR explains what motivates her. The presentation includes dogs, tractors and a reference to Marie Antoinette.

1. Helen Lambell
wears a no-
nonsense PR hat to
help companies in
the property and
construction
industries
She has selflessly spent more than 30 years in journalism, PR and
scriptwriting so she can share your news with the people you want to
read it. (And she’s not even wearing a hat in this photo – maybe it’s
too hot. She is in California after all)
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2. “Helen is
that brilliant
mix – fun
AND clever.”
(PS This is not Helen. In fact, it isn’t even her dog. She spotted it in
Delft but it refused to go home with her).

3. Ten facts
about
Helen
Lambell
# One
She wrote two shortlisted comedy dramas and a six-part sitcom for
BBC Radio 4 and was in the four-horse final hurdle to write for Ragdoll
Productions, creators of The Teletubbies and In the Night Garden

4. Ten facts
about Helen
Lambell
# Two
She likes to pretend she is French (no-one is fooled except the
English people in the Marmite section of Le Clerc). PS When she is
doing this she calls herself Helene. Yup, still nobody falls for it.

5. Ten facts about
Helen Lambell
# Three
She’s worked for two of the
world’s largest PR agencies –
McCann and Porter Novelli

6. Ten facts
about Helen
Lambell
# Four
She hangs out in cafes writing really intelligent press releases about
the construction industry (while masquerading as a Parisian. Still no-
one is taken in.)

7. Ten facts
about Helen
Lambell
# Five
One of her clients was turning over a meagre £5m a year a decade
ago. He’s just sold the company to one with a bottom line of more
than £600m.

8. Ten facts about
Helen Lambell
# Six
She was a journalist and
newspaper editor for eight
years.

9. Ten facts
about Helen
Lambell
# Seven
She finds walking therapeutic and has belonged to the National Trust
for ever. Literally. A cream tea in a National Trust café is one of the
best things in the entire world

10. Ten facts about
Helen Lambell
# Eight
She has a French degree from
Warwick University. (This is still
not her btw)

11. Ten facts
about Helen
Lambell
# Nine
She claims to be descended from the alleged lesbian lover of Marie
Antoinette. She knows this almost certainly isn’t true – but it makes a
good story. Except when she is in France when it is safer to keep quiet
in case of any sort of beheading opportunity.

12. Ten facts
about Helen
Lambell
# Ten
Oh yes, a work fact now. She loves getting her teeth into complex
property and construction related issues, swilling them round in her
mouth and then regurgitating a beautiful piece of prose in which her
client is presented as some sort of guru, thus making his or her
product or service irresistible to potential customers