# AI Context for Sophia Halkidou

## Profile
- Name: Sophia Halkidou
- Location: Greece
- About me: Corporate Communication, Leadership Communication, and Reputational Risk Specialist.

Founder of wellenwide, an independent, Athens\-based corporate affairs and PR firm.

Former General Manager and Head Programmes Director at Action Hellas PR / Weber Shandwick and Ikon Porter Novelli.

Head Public Affairs of the EU TACIS programme for communication with the citizens in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster \(Russia, Ukraine, Belarus 1999\-2001, contractor European Profiles\).

Extended portfolio in helping C\-Suites protect and restore the reputation of their corporations during natural disasters, environmental harm, human\-error accidents, industrial accidents, gradual downsizing of companies during financial recession, low employee morale, labour strikes, executive’s suicide, product failures and recalls, customer complaints, fabrications and lawsuits, and local community relations disorders.

Mentor to social start\-ups \| Impact Hub Athens.

Academic Background
• BA \(Hons\) Faculty of Philosophy, French Literature and Culture \- Aristotle University
• BA \(Hons\) Drama \- National Theater of Northern Greece.

Research & Teaching area
• Participatory Researcher, Designer and Coach of Artwaykening™ Employees, an arts\-based organisational development methodology for empathy, analytical thinking, and synthesis thinking skills in business. 
• Initiator, Participatory Researcher, and Mentor of Arista, an awareness initiative for the issue of Underachievement in Gifted and Talented Children in Greece so that "the potential won't be lost" \(www.aristagifted.org\).

## Online Presence
\[Gravatar Profile\]: [gravatar.com/halkidou](https://gravatar.com/halkidou)