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 …
Communicators, our book is out!
An Effort to Understand is available for immediate purchase—on Amazon, or anywhere you buy your books—in print, in Kindle and as an audiobook, narrated by me. Communicators will love it, …
Speechwriter, Q.E.D.
Veteran speechwriter James C. Humes, who passed away on August 21 at the age of 85, was a speechwriter to five successive Republican presidents, from Eisenhower to George H.W. Bush. …
Airlines, united
Airline CEOs and union leaders gathered in a joint event outside the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to plead for another $28 billion in federal aid for their industry, according to CNN. “The …