About Us

John Earl established Cynosura in 1998 as a portfolio management communications consultancy.  Over the years Cynosura has evolved and today John works with a syndicate of Associates, all of whom are portfolio consultants.

If you would like to join our syndicate, then please contact John Earl.

We are looking for those who are:

  • Already a consultant, recently redundant or who have taken early retirement
  • A knowledge worker with extensive real life experience
  • Action oriented
  • A straight talker
  • Old enough to believe that courtesy, responsibility and gravitas matter
  • Young enough to be flexible and able to use the latest techniques to achieve results for our clients.

Our name

Cynosura is another name for the Polestar or Navigator’s star.  It comes from the ancient Greek.  Cynosura is pronounced ‘syno-soora’.

Legal

Mailing address:  3 Oaklands Road, London, SW14 8NJ

Tel: +44 (0)20 8487 1192

Email: enquiries@cynosura.com

Registered office:  Ground Floor, Helen House, Great Cornbow, Halesowen, West Midlands B63 3AB
Company No:  3780576
VAT Registration No: 758 0032 42

Conduct

Cynosura adheres to the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Code of Conduct.

Neither Cynosura, nor contributors to the Cynosura blog, accept payment from any source for publishing an article on the blog.




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