By Brian Besanceney, Partner Over the last few months, I have connected with a lot of seasoned CCOs and corporate affairs leaders. What has struck me is how quickly their agendas are evolving. AI is [...]
By Monica Talan, Partner Every day, we wake up to headlines about AI’s potential harm: jobs lost, cybersecurity threats, misinformation, social isolation, and systems that may become difficult to control. But one of the biggest [...]
A recent discussion among marketers on Reddit took aim at the number of people calling themselves “fractional” CMOs, arguing that too many are simply consultants who have adopted a more senior-sounding title. The criticism was [...]
It has been a remarkable few weeks for anyone who works in corporate communications. Three very different companies faced criticism for three very different situations, each raising the same fundamental question: Where was the corporate filter? Every [...]
For decades, the basic model of work was remarkably consistent: companies hired employees, employees built careers inside organizations, and the full-time job sat at the center of both workforce strategy and professional identity. That model [...]
By Monica Talan, Partner Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Meredith Klein for an upcoming episode of If I Only Had 10 Minutes, Season 3. When I asked her to choose one word that [...]
By Jane Randel, Partner For most of us, community came bundled with a job. You didn't have to seek it out. It arrived with your ID badge: people to eat lunch with, a shared problem [...]
What Executive Recruiters Say It Takes to Get Hired Today The people with perhaps the clearest view of the communications profession speak every day with CEOs, boards, and comms leaders about what organizations need next, [...]
Fractional leadership is no longer an emerging trend. It has become an accepted business strategy. Recent research suggests that approximately one-quarter of U.S. companies now utilize some form of fractional executive leadership, with organizations increasingly [...]
By Chris Gee, AI Strategist Eighty percent of companies that cut staff to fund AI saw no improvement in returns. That's not a hot take from an AI skeptic, that's Gartner, surveying 350 global executives [...]
