by Joanne Brown | Mar 11, 2016 | Blog
Last night I had dinner with eight other senior communicators charged with communicating change to employees in their organizations. Here are some simple truths that emerged from our conversation: Communicating change is not primarily about: Repeating key messages,...
by Joanne Brown | Feb 14, 2016 | Blog
Want to boost your career? Say ‘Thank you’ more than ever before. That was the message at a San Francisco International Association of Business Communicators event I recently hosted where the theme was managing our careers in a VUCA (Volatile,...
by Joanne Brown | Mar 30, 2015 | Blog
At the “Cocktails and Content” event recently hosted by SF IABC, SV IABC and Text100, the banner read, Content is King But Distribution is Queen And She Wears The Pants. Custom cocktails accompanied a lively panel discussion among LinkedIn’s Ryan Batty, Cisco’s...
by Joanne Brown | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog
Y ou have a keynote to deliver in two weeks. Easy, you might think – bring out the PowerPoint deck, brush it off, repurpose it, and, Voila! But don’t forget, no one goes to hear a speech in order to ignore what’s being said or to socialize. This very audience wants...
by Joanne Brown | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog
W hen I’m not writing speeches or other executive communiqués for my clients, I’m writing poetry. Two very different activities – you might think. But great speeches and great poems have more in common than meets the eye. Recently I was listening to a colleague, Pete...
