As CommsCollectiv marks its first anniversary, we find ourselves at the intersection of two significant milestones: our company’s journey and the emergence of a transformative trend in corporate communications: the rise of fractional communications. Growth Through Flexibility When we launched CommsCollectiv last year, we recognized a crucial gap in the market: businesses needed access to senior communications expertise without the overhead of full-time executive salaries. Our timing was impeccable. According to research cited in the [...]

Stress happens along a spectrum. There is positive stress in our lives like starting a new job. The next category is tolerable stress, and that can be falling and spraining your ankle. With a little bit of support and time you get over it. But then comes toxic stress. Toxic stress can happen with prolonged, severe or repeated exposure to adversity or uncertainty. Trauma is the impact that toxic stress leaves behind, and right now, [...]

One of the best pieces of business advice my father gave me was to be someone who makes decisions. He pointed out that you have a 50/50 chance of being right – and most people are not willing to take those odds. A recent article in Fortune about the best lessons Steve Jobs taught Tim Cook brought this to mind. Per the piece on leadership by Natalie McCormick, “Among the key management skills he learned from Jobs was [...]

What drew me to CommsCollectiv (CC) earlier this year was something I hope we all share: a sense of the power of group intelligence and collaboration. From my exposure to fractional executive services in the startup space, I immediately saw the market value of a networked talent pool of experienced comms executives. We’ve all lived through the most exponential growth of knowledge in history, fueled by network effects and the digitalization of communications and information. [...]

As a fractional communications professional, staying ahead of technology trends is crucial. One of the developments in artificial intelligence we are following is the rise of AI agents – autonomous systems that can perform complex tasks with minimal human intervention. It got us thinking — how are AI agents poised to revolutionize business communications and what does this mean for fractional comms experts… What Are AI Agents? AI agents are artificial intelligence systems capable of operating independently [...]

We used AI (MidJourney, one of partner Monica Talan’s favorite tools) to make our avatars. Here are our headshots. Do the images AI created look like us? You decide. We’ll keep experimenting.