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Category: Leadership Communication

Leadership Communication, by Lawyering Up
Leadership Communication

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 …

Leadership Communication / Perspective

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
Leadership Communication / Perspective

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 …

Leadership Communication / Perspective

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 …

Book Review / Leadership Communication

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 …

Leadership Communication / Opinion

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
Leadership Communication

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?
Leadership Communication / Perspective

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 …

Boe's Work Is Our Work Now
Leadership Communication / News

Boe’s Work Is Our Work Now

Well, Boe Workman is retiring this Friday, after a career that began with rhetoric scholarship, continued with political work and self-employment, and concluded with a short stint as the head …

'Does European Speechwriting Have a Future?'
Leadership Communication / Perspective

‘Does European Speechwriting Have a Future?’

Tuesday. I am on a train. Behind me is a world full of chores: the kitchen lights that flicker like the world’s worst, most desperate, domestic disco; the disintegrating garden …

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