Where is exec comms going?

It’s going where we take it—inside our organizations, and out.

After the most tumultuous decade in the history of this burgeoning communication discipline, exec comms professionals are finding their footing, and some of us are gathering to consolidate those gains.

We hope you’ll join us at Leadership Communication Days 2027: a candid and confidential meeting about real life in this difficult and dangerous, consequential and vital work—and a planning session, for a new organization of executive communication professionals.

Here’s what we’ll achieve:

On Day One and the morning of Day Two, in facilitated discussions, you’ll share your best ideas and get help with your toughest problems, from the only other people in the world who have faced them, and solved them: your fellow exec comms pros.

Along the way, we’ll grapple with issues like:

• How to stop the pendulum swinging, between strategically questionable over-sharing and a smothering overcorrection toward “institutional restraint.” What should CEOs and other leaders be talking about, and what should they be saying?
• Proactive exec comms. Let’s stop reeling from one urgent issue to the next and reacting to execs’ communication whims. Let’s think through a strategy, and lay out a plan that gets results for the organization.
• Scope creep: Great exec comms work is rewarded with more demand from more leaders. How to scale your exec comms offerings … or set strategic limits.
• AI: How should we use it, how should we not—and how can we explain our philosophy to the leaders we serve and the colleagues we work with.

What’s on your mind is on our agenda.

On the afternoon of Day Two, we’ll do nothing less than plan the next development in the future of executive communication. This is a facilitated barn-raising discussion with the executive director, the senior advisor and several members of the Executive Communication Council (including our hosts, at APS), about a new organization of executive communication professionals. What do working executive communication professionals need, in terms of professional development, thought leadership, advocacy, networking and career counseling? This group will help chart the course of a new institution that will change the exec comms profession forever.

During two days in this intimate setting among friends—in meetings and over meals and drinks—you’ll have a chance to talk more candidly (and productively) about your professional joys and agonies and hopes and dreams than you ever have before. And you’ll come away feeling more professionally empowered, equipped and supported than you ever thought possible.

Join us. 

Exclusive and Intimate

To make sure everyone has a chance to participate fully, we’re capping attendance at 20.

Reservations

The cost for Leadership Communication Days is $2,495. (Members of the Professional Speechwriters Association and the Executive Communication Council receive 25% off). Register now to reserve your seat.

Hotel Suggestion

We recommend the AC Hotel Phoenix Downtown, conveniently located steps away from our meeting place. To reserve your hotel room under the courtesy block, click here before the discounted rate of $339/night expires on January 27, 2027.

Daily Schedule

Each day of Leadership Communication Days runs from 9am-5pm at the corporate headquarters of APS, an Executive Communication Council member, located at 400 N. 5th Street in downtown Phoenix. Drinks and dinner, on APS and the ECC, will take place Thursday evening at approximately 6:30 p.m. Dress code is business casual, and conversation code is candid. 

What Past Participants Say About Leadership Communication Days 

Participants emerge from Leadership Communication Days refreshed, determined and relieved to know they are not alone—and with trusted new colleagues they will turn to again. We’ve held these meetings for almost two decades, and after each one, we’re showered with comments like these: 

“My poor boss is about to discover that the only thing worse than when I’m overworked,” said Airbus exec comms pro Jacqueline Martinez-De Rosso, “is when I’m over-enthusiastic!” 

“That much fun at a conference really shouldn’t be legal.” —Josh Piven, Senior Writer to the Provost, University of Pennsylvania 

“Leadership Communication Days continues to be my favorite—and the most valuable—conference I attend. … After eight of these conferences, I’m already looking forward to next year with great anticipation to see what it will bring.” —Boe Workman, Former Director, CEO Communications, AARP