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My 2025 Professional Speechwriters Association’s World Conference experience started before the conference. I landed in Washington DC the Saturday before—a habit I have developed over more than a decade attending these annual …
They say don’t meet your heroes. But last year I had the chance to meet Jacinda Ardern. In person she was more gracious, empathic and effective than the reputation that …
New York University history professor Kim Phillips-Fein had a guest essay in The New York Times last week that got under my skin, on behalf of my friends and colleagues in corporate executive …
If you didn’t read “CEOs Were Our Heroes … At Least According to Them” on the front page of the business section of Sunday’s New York Times, I understand. Reading the …
The past two years have been challenging for executive communications professionals. As people turned to government, community, and business leaders for help making sense of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reckoning …
Last week my colleague Sharon McIntosh and I co-hosted the Executive Communication Council’s Employee Communication Summit, which participants have told us offered the most sustained helping of good ideas, true …
It’s an unkept secret among speechwriters that if you want to talk to the head of the Professional Speechwriters Association, all you have to do is email me and ask. …
A CEO asked his exec comms director, among others: Should I proactively make a statement against recent and looming changes to voting regulations? And the comms chief asked me for …
“Please, God, let us always have outsiders and give me the grace, in my better moments, to know how to be one,” the old communicator wrote. “But I’m torn because I want to be an insider too.”
As any year ends and another begins, most of us quietly, maybe half-consciously, take stock, organize our memories, gird ourselves to begin again. We put a period at the end …