A Communicator’s Gift, for the Holidays
Every holiday season a hotshot PR guy we worked with used to send a barrel of popcorn for the holidays. Another consultant used to donate, in our name, to the …
Speechwriters, visible
The seed of the idea for an online store for Professional Speechwriters Association-branded gear began to grow at the very first PSA World Conference, back in 2014. The swag we …
The Last Virtual PSA World Conference, Visually Recalled
A friend of mine asked how last week’s World Conference of the Professional Speechwriters’ Association went. I immodestly said it was a big hit. He asked, “Even virtually? How?” Good …
Speechwriters’ Census 2021
There’s been so much focus on exec comms generally over the last couple of crisis years—but less on speechwriting, specifically. The Professional Speechwriters Association wants to take major stock of the …
Introduce Your Communicators to the Communicator’s Communicator
From the Desk of David Murray, Founder and Executive Director of the Professional Speechwriters Association and the Executive Communication Council, and author of the critically acclaimed new communication bible, An …
Exec comms is from Mars, internal comms is from Venus
The Executive Communication Council convened an Employee Communication Summit to help internal comms folks and exec comms folks work together better. Last week, conference co-chair Sharon McIntosh and I saw …
Registration Is Open
When you peruse the 2021 program, you’ll see that the Professional Speechwriters Association has made full use of the recruiting advantages for holding one more virtual conference before returning to …
Rhetoric Turned Inward, to “Turn All Eyes Outward”
A colleague of mine always insisted she had no idea what employee communication was, even after working for an internal communications consultancy for 20 years. She had a lot in …
One Refreshing Conversation
If you’re anything like the communication execs I’ve been talking to—after this last exhausting and disorienting year, your team needs more than a pep talk. It needs a renewed sense …
Our Effort to Understand
Your first worry, when you organize a conference on a subject that seems as basic as the title of “Communicating to Understand” suggests, is that no one will come, everyone …