Eve Morris, CoSkill's Managing Consultant, has been announced as a Finalist at the 8th annual International Stevie Women in Business Awards for Best Executive for Business Services. Not only is Eve the only Finalist from the UK in this category, but she’s also the only Finalist outside of the US and Canada. The Winners are to be announced in New York City on Friday, 11 November. Good luck Eve and well done!

Our founder and CEO, Craig Le Grice, has been announced as a shortlisted finalist in the Young Entrepreneur of the Year category of the Growing Business Awards. The award - sponsored by Coutts, Visa and Bird & Bird - is to be announced at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square on November 14, officially kicking off Global Entrepreneurship Week. Best of luck Craig, the whole CoSkill team is behind you!

From wealthy families to ambitious young achievers, the 'High Net Worth' label is one of the hardest consumer segments to understand, with many brands finding it an almost impossible audience. We've created the CoSkill HNW Panel - formed of 200 of these hard to reach consumers, answering tough questions (and sharing opinions) on money, business, value, technology and consumerism. Talk to us today to find out more.

CoSkill has signed up to 'Own A Colour' - the partnership between Dulux and UNICEF based on raising donations by auctioning the naming rights to the 16.7m colours available on your screen. We've, naturally, chosen the official 'CoSkill Blue'. It's great to know that our donation will help save a child's life. Get involved (donating anything from £1 by card or SMS) and reserve your favourite colour at ownacolour.com today.

CoSkill has another new team member - please welcome Gary O'Neill. Gary joins us as Commercial Manager, responsible for commercial development and partnership management. With an impressive track record of developing and strengthening relationships within global brands such as Countrywide Financial and Lehman Brothers, he'll be a front-line client and partner contact, based in our London office.

It's fair to say that our recent recruitment campaign went down well - with a massive 500 people applying to work at CoSkill! We were delighted to receive so many fantastic applications from many truly great candidates and enjoyed meeting people from all over the world, all eager to start or continue their career with the next generation strategic consultancy. Watch out for our new team member announcements, coming soon!

We're pleased to announce our fantastic sponsors for our upcoming 'Fast Forward to 2012' event on 29 September 2011. If you're attending the event, you'll be in great company - with drinks provided by Chegworth Valley farm pressed juices and snacks courtesy of gourmet brand Dormen's. Our speakers already have a lot to live up to!

We're delighted to announce that Sally Crimes has joined our growing team in London as a Consultant. Winner of 'Rising star of The Year' at the Marketing Industry Awards in 2010, Sally brings a wealth of strategic marketing capability to our team. Her knowledge of the digital world and passion for consultancy versus agency makes her a great fit and we can't wait to see her outperform in the next stage of her career.

Well, wow! It's amazing what can happen in a long bank holiday weekend. We're delighted to announce that our brand new expenses app Xpnsd has landed a place in the UK App Store's top 100 free business apps! We're so excited, and a little proud, to have reached this point already. Dare we now dream of a top 50 listing? Click here to download it and see just what all the fuss is about!

We're delighted to announce that we've launched our very own Apple iPhone app - designed to fix a super simple, yet super frustrating, problem! Xpnsd is the quickest and easiest way to submit your expenses. Simply take a photo of your receipt using the app and send in one click to a pre-determined email address (your accounts team etc) with a pre-set subject. Easy! Visit the Xpnsd website to download…

Due to further growth, and some phenomenal client wins, we're now recruiting for three new specific roles. There's opportunity(ies) to join the CoSkill team as: Strategy Consultant; Commercial Manager; and PA to the CEO. Check out our careers page for more information or get in touch to find out more. Careers with CoSkill.

We're delighted to announce that we have chosen 40 | 30 at The Gherkin (properly known as 30 St Mary Axe) in London for our inaugural annual Summer Client Dinner. A thank you to friends and clients of CoSkill, the evening is also a great opportunity to introduce potentially like-minded people to each other. We're very excited to have secured such a fantastic venue - hopefully making for an evening as stimulating as the views!

Eve Morris has joined CoSkill as Managing Consultant. With 15 years' strategic consulting experience, Eve's inhouse department leadership track record is already proving popular with CoSkill clients - as she understands the pressures and requirements of clientside operations. She counts compliance-heavy environments, integrated / social marketing, strategic planning and digital technology as specialist subjects.

CoSkill is delighted to welcome Isobel (Issy) Hart to its expanding team, as Project Assistant. Assisting consultants with client project work, supporting CEO Craig Le Grice and managing the consultancy's extensive event / seminar / talk schedule, Issy arrives with a background in research, insight, event management and experience in working in multistakeholder environments and on multi-channel projects.

We've been talking about location based marketing for a long time now… So it was only appropriate that one of our first tasks when we moved in to our new offices was to add our location to foursquare! To celebrate our new office, we're giving a lovely bottle of wine to everyone who checks in to CoSkill for the first time. With a special prize if you can oust our CEO as Mayor! Click here to download foursquare now.

Our new company-wide IT system is now in place. An Apple hardware focused environment, we've worked to make sure that CoSkill stays ahead with the latest available digital technologies. Our completely paper free working policies have also been advanced by state of the art document imaging systems and cloud computing. Total hot-desking allows our people to sit in the teams they're working in instead of at pre-assigned desks.

We’re hoping to meet a dynamic and ambitious future consultant for our 2011 / 2012 internship, willing to both challenge and be challenged. Smart versus clever will go a long way and we’re most keen on speaking to people with a passion for multistakeholder strategy and how the world of business is being changed by consumers. We don’t believe in unpaid internships so this is a fully paid program... Apply on our careers page.

It’s an exciting day here at CoSkill today as we say hello to the all new coskill.com, our online home. Created to demonstrate what we do, how we think, what we believe and how we work - it’s part of our firm’s online presence, along with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Vimeo. Based on conversations with our team, clients and partners, it reflects our belief in simple, to the point and concise communication.