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How to write the “catastrophe speech.” By writer Kevin Toolis’ definition, coronavirus is not a “catastrophe”—a singular disastrous event. But it will almost certainly contain such events—for the world, for your …

Resources for you, from the Professional Speechwriters Association: • The Video CEO: Make the Boss Comfortable, Compelling and Compassionate on Screen takes place Friday, at 1:00 Eastern. Register right now to join Fred Garcia and …

Dear American CEO, “I feel like I have been hit on the head with a cow,” a Joseph Mitchell character once said (after he’d had a cow dropped on his …

On St. Patrick’s Day of all days, speechwriters should remember what Oscar Wilde said about the Irish: “We are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.” Wilde himself was one of …

Beginning with the first issue—see below—we’re offering ECR: Coronavirus gratis for two weeks—as a service to you, and to the public your leaders serve through sound leadership communication. After that, readers who find …

The Professional Speechwriters Association called for coronavirus comment from you, asking how you are responding to your leaders and communication colleagues who turn to you. Laura Hunter, who handles executive …

As you know, we held a webinar late last week, “Executive Communication and Coronavirus: What You Should Be Saying, Thinking and Doing NOW,” with Fred Garcia, President of the Logos …

I’ve often quoted H.L. Mencken’s 1921 assessment of the prose of President Warren G. Harding: He writes the worst English I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string …

Harvard Medical School seeks an executive speechwriter. “Reporting to the chief communications officer, with a dotted line to the dean’s office, the executive speechwriter is responsible for effectively articulating the vision of …

I expected the Founders Meeting of the Executive Communication Council, which took place two weeks ago at the Hermosa Inn, in Phoenix, Ariz., to be a momentous gathering. I didn’t expect …