We have trained more than 190 energy companies, from national oil companies to regulators, renewables and power. London-based, delivered worldwide.
The hardest communication job in business — and the one ISOC has specialised in longest.
Communicating well in energy is harder than in almost any other industry. The people who speak for an energy company answer to regulators, investors, governments, local communities and a press that often starts from suspicion. Reassure one group and you can provoke another.
When something goes wrong in energy it goes wrong fast, in public, and on a scale that pulls in far more than the communication team. A spill or a safety incident can put operational leads, technical experts and regional managers in front of a camera within hours. All of them have to be ready, not only the official spokesperson.
There is also a weight most sectors never carry. When the company is a national oil company, its people speak for a country as well as a business, and government, commerce and public affairs all land in the same answer. This is the kind of work ISOC has been doing longest.
One specialist partner for the whole communication brief - built for the energy context, not adapted from a generic course.
We prepare the people who face the press. Each participant gets interview scenarios built from the energy stories they will actually be asked about, several rounds on camera, and a written, rubric-scored assessment that gives the head of communication a clear, comparable read on how ready the team is.
Delivered in three formats: crisis media skills for spokespeople, classroom training on crisis strategy for the communication team, and full simulations that test the whole response under realistic pressure — standalone, inside an operational drill, or across several sites and languages at once.
Our biggest area of work. Media relations, reputation, public affairs, stakeholder engagement and the transition story, shaped into a programme built for the energy context.
A clear path from group training up to one-to-one coaching, building the authority leaders need on a stage, on a panel and in front of investors.
Programmes for the disclosure rules and stakeholder expectations that now sit at the centre of how energy companies are judged.
For the workforce engagement and change work that big, dispersed energy operations rely on.
Message development, communication strategy, crisis communication preparedness, competency frameworks and full training academies.
When a whole workforce needs to communicate, not just a spokesperson.
Some energy organisations need to build communication skills across a whole workforce, not polish a handful of spokespeople. For them ISOC designs and runs a training academy. ISOC did this for Saudi Aramco, training more than 250 employees with a faculty of international specialists. The same model fits any large energy group or national oil company.
Four energy clients, four very different briefs.
ISOC designed and ran a training academy for the Saudi oil major — mapping the skills needed across strategic communication, public relations and government affairs, pre-assessing staff, and writing a development plan for each. More than 250 employees went through it, taught by a faculty of over 15 international specialists, and Public Affairs Asia named the programme highly commended. Beyond the academy, we have trained and coached more than 350 people over 25 separate projects spanning more than 20 years for Saudi Aramco.
ISOC built and ran a crisis simulation for PETRONAS in four time zones at once, with managers at facilities in Malaysia, Canada, Indonesia and Europe inside the same live exercise. A crisis unfolded in real time, with ambush interviews, social media simulations and pre-recorded news bulletins, testing whether their strategy, systems and people held together under pressure. It was a hybrid online-offline design, with two ISOC coaches working with the core team face to face and remote offices dialling in.
ISOC designed and delivered a standalone crisis simulation around a custom pipeline scenario for the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company and its Chad pipeline partner, with people spread across two companies and a head office. We designed the rolling situation, media-trained the spokespeople, then ran the exercise live in French and English — delivered entirely online, with the ISOC studio handling recording and replay for coaching.
ISOC trains the Saudi Electricity Regulatory Authority in corporate and crisis communication — an active relationship that shows our reach into energy regulation as well as the operators themselves.
Selected energy clients across the GCC, Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America.
ISOC also trains regulators, renewables and power operators worldwide.
Tell us who speaks for your organisation and the pressures they face. We will build a programme around them. ISOC works with energy clients from London, across the GCC and worldwide.
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