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 …
Executive Communication Report: free, three days a week
The Executive Communication Report has come out every Friday since 2008, to keep speechwriters and executive communication pros up to speed on the latest doings in their then-relatively sleepy industry. …
Legendary Republican speechwriter James Humes is dead
James Humes, speechwriter to presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, died last Friday at 85. For the Nixon administration, Humes drafted the inscription on the plaque left on the moon: …
Biden’s speech tonight: A speechwriter’s preview
What should speechwriters, especially, be watching for during Joe Biden’s acceptance speech tonight, at the Democratic National Convention? Co-author of The Political Speechwriter’s Companion and PSA Advisory Counselor Robert Lehrman writes in The …