Pregiarized!
There’s nothing new under the sun. (That’s an old saying too.) For years, I’ve been telling speechwriters there are two ways to coach speakers into becoming more dynamic, authentic and …
CEOs Say the Darnedest Things
CEOs used to love to say their companies were like families and employees were their most valuable asset. Until they started laying the family members off and dumping their most …
Leadership Communication, by Lawyering Up
From today’s Executive Communication Report, to which you should subscribe because unlike most things in life, it is useful and free: I have worked my whole career counseling communication professionals not to let …
Meet Your Brilliant, Solicitous But Untrustworthy New Coworker (AI)
Artificial intelligence complicates things for writers. It’s complicating everything for everyone these days, sure. We all have AI in our faces all day long, whether we want it or not …
Leadership Communication These Days: Utterly Essential, and Hard as Hell
So many times were Chatham House Rules re-invoked at last week’s Annual Gathering of the Higher Education Leadership Communication Council at Wesleyan University. This is such a creepy time to be employed to …
Yes, This Work Is Worth It
Fourteen years ago this week I started my first executive communications job. I was (very) loosely qualified for it, but the team was scaling quickly and needed bodies. And my …
Rhetoric, for Ill
A review of The Language of Evil, by Guy Doza. (Canbury, 2025) We hear the call from time to time: If only the masses knew the tricks of speechwriters and …
This Isn’t Writing, It’s Mincing
Last week at the Executive Communication Summit that my company convened, I interviewed the famed Yale Management School Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who took us back to the beginning of the …
How Writers Can Beat AI At Its Own Game
Today my company launched AI for Speechwriting and Executive Communication, a webinar that should signal to you that this stuff is in the leadership communication biz to stay. The question is, …
Who Wants to Be a Speechwriter in 2025?
First published in Pluck: A Newsletter for Fearless Communicators, produced by Justine Adelizzi, an award-winning speechwriter and communications leader. Subscribe to Pluck. *** Within the communications field, being a speechwriter comes …