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Case Study: Sociabble

Sociabble is an employee advocacy and internal communications platform used by organisations worldwide to strengthen employee engagement and internal alignment. As the company scaled its visibility, Sociabble partnered with The Sprout PR to elevate its leadership team as trusted voices in executive leadership, HR, and professional development.

The engagement focused on positioning three Sociabble experts across distinct but complementary domains:

  • Jean-Louis Benard, CEO — executive leadership, internal communication, and employee management
  • Barbara Marzari, HR expert — people operations, talent strategy, and workplace culture
  • Krusha Sahjwani Malkani, ICF-Certified Coach — leadership coaching, personal growth, and professional wellbeing

The Challenge

Sociabble’s leadership team had deep expertise, but needed consistent third-party visibility in credible publications that already influence business leaders, HR professionals, and managers.

Key challenges included:

  • Fragmented Expertise — Multiple experts across different disciplines required clear positioning without diluting the brand
  • Editorial Trust — Gaining access to publications that prioritise expert insight over promotional messaging
  • Speed & Relevance — Capitalising on journalist demand for timely, experience-driven commentary

The goal was to secure earned media that felt authoritative, not marketing-led, while establishing each expert within their respective field.

Objectives

  • Position Sociabble’s leadership team as trusted expert sources
  • Secure individual interviews and expert features in reputable business and leadership publications
  • Align each expert with journalists covering their specific beat
  • Build credibility through reactive PR rather than announcement-driven outreach

The PR Strategy

The Sprout PR implemented a reactive earned media strategy designed to match journalist demand with the right expert — at the right time.

Key initiatives included:

  • Monitoring journalist queries related to executive leadership, HR strategy, employee engagement, and coaching
  • Connecting Jean-Louis Benard with journalists covering CEO leadership, internal communications, and employee management
  • Positioning Barbara Marzari as a subject-matter expert on HR, workplace culture, and talent challenges
  • Securing interview opportunities for Krusha Sahjwani Malkani, highlighting her perspective as an ICF-Certified Coach supporting leadership and professional growth
  • Facilitating individual expert interviews and long-form features in outlets such as Authority Magazine and CanvasRebel
  • Ensuring all commentary was journalist-ready, insight-driven, and grounded in real-world experience

This approach allowed Sociabble to appear organically in editorial conversations already shaping how leaders think about work, people, and communication.

Results & Coverage Summary

Over a 90-day campaign, the reactive PR strategy delivered measurable earned media impact:

  • 16 high-quality backlinks
  • 556.4 million total monthly traffic reach across placements
  • 46 average domain authority
  • Coverage published between March and June 2025

Notable features included executive interviews and expert commentary focused on communication breakdowns, leadership challenges, employee advocacy, and workplace wellbeing

Sociabble_Coverage Report

Prominent Coverage

Publication

Article Title

Domain Authority

Monthly Visitors

Thrive Global

6 Entrepreneurs on the Apps That Help Them Sleep, Focus, and Thrive

86

187.3K

Go Banking Rates

5 Common Paycheck Mistakes To Avoid When You’re Switching Jobs

82

5.3M

Today News

The Silent Reversal: Why Big Brands Are Quietly Dismantling DEI

54

44.9K

Authority Magazine

Common Communication Breakdowns: Jean-Louis Benard Of Sociabble On The Most Common Communication Breakdowns In Corporations And How To Avoid Them

94

95.6M

Valiant CEO

Frontline Business Insights: Jean-Louis Benard of Sociabble

67

16K

The US Leaders

Employee Advocacy Over HR: What Talent Wants

30

125K

CEO Weekly

What Poor Internal Communication Costs a Scaling Business Silent Channels, Lost Revenue

72

29.5K

Mirror Review

AI-Powered Internal Communication: Enhancing Employee Wellbeing and Engagement in 2025

68

117.5K

Yahoo Finance

5 Common Paycheck Mistakes To Avoid When You’re Switching Jobs

92

248.5M

Nasdaq

4 Seasonal Side Hustles To Try This Spring

90

16.3M

Impact

By positioning three distinct experts across complementary fields, Sociabble achieved:

  • Increased credibility among CEOs, HR leaders, and professionals
  • Clear differentiation of each expert’s voice and area of authority
  • Stronger brand association with leadership, people strategy, and employee engagement
  • Long-term SEO and authority benefits driven by editorial backlinks
  • Sustained media relationships within leadership and HR journalism circles

Rather than relying on a single spokesperson, the campaign demonstrated Sociabble’s depth of expertise across multiple facets of modern work.

Why It Worked

The campaign succeeded because it followed a journalist-first, insight-driven approach. By responding reactively to real editorial needs and matching the right expert to the right conversation, Sociabble’s leadership team became a reliable source journalists could trust.

Conclusion

This campaign illustrates the power of reactive PR and expert positioning when executed with precision. By elevating Jean-Louis Benard, Barbara Marzari, and Krusha Sahjwani Malkani as individual thought leaders, The Sprout PR helped Sociabble build authority, credibility, and long-term visibility across leadership and workplace media.