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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Recently Forbes had a piece quoting CEOs on why they join peer groups where they can exchange experiences and ideas with others just like them. “I joined a peer group because I was making …
Many of us were journalists before turning to rhetoric, which makes speechwriters an exquisite fusion of objectors and optimists with a weakness for eloquence: people who can spot the long …
President Trump is giving his big speech to Congress tonight. But even when we have a president who does try to mouth rhetoric that remotely rhymes with reality, I’m not …
Published earlier this month at the website of the City Club of Cleveland. —ed. Political upheaval is both chaotic and clarifying, and the opening weeks of the second administration of …
Dear Executive Communicator, Three weeks into the new administration, my newsfeed has never been louder, and my professional correspondence has never been quieter. For someone who has been close to …