Vice President, Corporate Communications, Events and Philanthropy
Newell Brands
ALI is taking their top rated 7th Annual Strategic Internal Communications—East conference virtual. From the comfort and safety of your home office, join your peers as you:
See proven strategies and solutions to your biggest challenges, gain advice, and have support from over 100 internal communicators.
Collaborate with your peers through live polls, interactive panel sessions, and breakout rooms where you’ll have the opportunity to share your biggest hurdles.
Learn tactics to help you keep remote employees engage, communicate during a crisis, and keep your IC strategy moving forward and help you achieve your 2020 communication goals.
What You Will Learn
This virtual conference has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to see what your peers are doing, how they’re overcoming common challenges, proven tactics, and the tools they’re using to achieve it all.
The IC world has been flipped upside down this year and this conference will outline practical and tactical solutions to help you:
Outline a clear and informative internal communications strategy that include WFH policies, time-off, and travel safety protocols
Utilize the right communication tools and channels for your employees – keep it simple and easy to adopt
Adjust to the new normal and provide employees with grace during these challenging times
Ensure employees participate and stay engaged wherever they are
Receive and respond to employee questions and concerns in a timely manner
Personalize and prioritize messages to avoid communication overload
Make your communications visual when possible – digital signage, videos, internal social networks, and more
Put strategies and resources in place to communicate with a divided and dispersed workforce
Develop and provide consistent messaging across channels and departments to avoid any miscommunication
Keep communication open and transparent allowing you to build honest relationships
Reach employees at all levels
Benefits of an All-Access Pass
Maximize your time by signing up for the virtual conference workshops on Monday, July 21…
Join in live or watch the recording later, these consultant led workshops will provide you with a deep dive on the challenges that keep you up at night.
These workshops are a great first stop to prepare you for the general sessions, give you practical solutions, and challenge you to think outside of the box to solve your most pressing internal communication challenges.
Workshop A: Prepare for the Four Shifts Transforming Employee Experience – INTEGRAL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
Workshop B: Emerging from the Crisis: The Future Employee Experience – EXPERIENCE WILLOW
Workshop C: How Honest Feedback Empowers Leaders and Builds an Inclusive Work Culture – AZURE LEADERSHIP GROUP
Workshop D: Measuring Your ROI – Steps to Prove the Value of Your Internal Communications Initiatives to Your Organization – INTERNAL COMMS PRO
Who You Will Meet
Employee Engagement
Corporate Communications
Internal Communications
Human Resources
Employee Communications
Brand Communications
Organizational Development
Intranet Content & Communications
Global Communications
Employee Relations
Employer Branding
Employee Experience
HR Communications
Strategic Communications
Crisis Communications
What People are Saying
“Very nice to hear from people running into the same issues. Such good takeaways to bring home to my team”
Communications Coordinator
Magna International
“Best conference I have been to. Great speakers, great vibe and very well organized”
Director of Employee Communications
Qualcomm
“GREAT conference! I loved the format and am BLOWN AWAY at how well you were able to keep everything on track. Speakers were amazingly cooperative w/time limits. Very respectful, professional experience and FUN too! You did a great job!”
Internal Communications Manager
Capital Power
Learn more about ALI Conferences
Learn more about our services, conferences, trainings, and how you can connect with us.
Smaller group, hands-on, and interactive – the workshop sessions allow you to focus on trending topics and share challenges with fellow attendees and your workshop leaders. Attend to get a solid foundation of strategies, trends and how to’s before the start of the main, two-day conference – and, find out why the workshops are consistently rated as very valuable time spent!
8:30 am - 9:45 am
Workshop A: Prepare for the Four Shifts Transforming Employee Experience - INTEGRAL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
Julia Race, Director of Strategy | Integral
Ethan McCarty, CEO | Integral
Diving deeper into the four shifts seen in the internal communications industry, this interactive working session will explore how these changes impact business and what human resources, employee communications, and marketing professionals can do about it.
You will get a front-row view of employee expectations, technological shifts, and leadership models necessitating reprioritization in 2020 including case studies, dialogue, and working tools. Following an introduction to the four shifts, you will participate in an exercise to anticipate, plan, and develop strategies to ensure personal, team and company success in an era of change.
Leave this session with practical examples and tools to use with your team when you return to the office, including:
Developing mission-based teams
Implementing user-centered design practices,
Experience vs. content
Employee mobile systems
Julia Race, Director of Strategy Integral Communications Group
Taylor Shawver, Client Manager Integral Communications Group
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Morning Refreshment Break
Take this time to refill your coffee and enjoy a quick stretch break.
Be sure to check in the Chat window for your first opportunity to provide feedback and ideas you're implementing.
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Workshop B: Emerging from the Crisis: The Future Employee Experience - EXPERIENCE WILLOW
Kevin Finke, Founder & Chief Experience Officer | Experience Willow
COVID-19 has disrupted businesses worldwide. The way we work and the way we communicate have been drastically changed. While this situation won't last forever, employees will forever remember how this time and felt and what their organization did to make them feel safe, informed, and connected.
This thought-provoking workshop will help you navigate the new normal and help outline what your future employee experience will entail, including how to:
Recognize the importance of human connection
Help your employees regain a sense of balance and provide them with the tools needed to be productive
Facilitate ways to enhance collaboration and social interaction
Kevin Finke, Founder & Chief Storyteller
Experience Willow
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Lunch Break: We'll Return At 12:15
Go ahead and take this time to grab lunch, catch up on work, and we'll be back at 12:15 for the next workshop.
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Workshop C: How Honest Feedback Empowers Leaders and Builds an Inclusive Work Culture - AZURE LEADERSHIP GROUP
Andrew Blotky, Communications Expert & Leadership Coach | Azure Leadership Group
It can be difficult to reach goals and achieve results when employees don’t feel comfortable giving and receiving feedback and having hard conversations. As today’s organizations strive to develop and keep a more inclusive and diverse workforce, it’s more important than ever for leaders at all levels to develop and nurture honest, open dialogue based on effective communication methods.
Not only will this help cultivate an inclusive, vibrant work culture where all employees feel heard, safe, and supported—no matter their background or role—it will also help push the company’s goals and bottom line to greater heights.
This workshop will show you how to collect feedback, make real-time changes, and continuously improve your internal communications strategy, including:
Learn the CORE framework for leadership communication, i.e. communication methods that are Consistent, Open, Real, and Educational for effective leadership communication at work
Unique and practical methods for gathering meaningful and honest feedback from employees and having hard conversations, including understanding relevant brain science behind our reactions to feedback
How to measure what’s working well in your communication strategy and amplify it.
Understanding how your approach affects others and establishing a reliable strategy for developing a communication plan that works for you
Andrew Blotky, Communications Expert & Leadership Coach Azure Leadership Group
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Afternoon Refreshment & Stretch Break
Refresh your coffee and grab a sweet treat - you're in the home stretch!
Be sure to check in the chat tab to catch up on any idea sharing and questions you may have missed.
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Workshop D: Measuring Your ROI - Steps to Prove the Value of Your Internal Communications Initiatives to Your Organization - INTERNAL COMMS PRO
Sara Jackson, Executive Director | Internal Comms Pro
Tarek Kamil, CEO & Founder | Cerkl
ROI - a big buzzword that is being tossed around the internal comms industry. What is it, what does it really mean, and how do I calculate it?
Specifically designed to empower internal communicators, this workshop will define the true meaning of ROI, give you insight into how your CEO and CFO look at ROI and walk you through step by step on how to calculate internal comm’s true ROI to your business bottom line.
Choreographed to feel like a safe, behind closed doors, ask anything environment, this workshop will share the inside scoop on how other departments are getting their projects approved and why it is an uphill battle for internal comms.
Through this down-to-earth, tell it like it is, humor-filled workshop, barriers will be removed as participants will learn how to calculate their own ROI on their internal comms projects.
By the end of the workshop, you'll learn how to:
Define ROI (the true meaning)
Calculate ROI
Speak about ROI correctly to your C-Suite
Use the process used to enhance your professional credibility
Identify the data points needed to calculate your ROI
Understand the 3 departments IC needs to engage
Know when it is appropriate to calculate ROI
Get the inside scoop to getting your CFO to say yes to your project
Connect your specific project to the bottom line
Identify the four ROI buckets that raise your value
Sara Jackson, Executive Director Internal Comms Pro
Tarek Kamil, CEO & Founder Cerkl
3:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Close of Workshop Day
Thank you for joining us for today's workshops. Presentations will be made available in dropbox.
Sessions will begin tomorrow at 8:30 a.m.
Day 2 - 07/22/2020
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Coffee & Comms: 6 Tips to Make Email More Engaging - POLITEMAIL
Join your internal communications peers for coffee & communications with our #ALIComms partner, PoliteMail.
Everybody’s striving to get employees to consume essential emails and newsletters. If only there were techniques you could apply today and see immediate results.
In fact, there are.
This free guide from PoliteMail and Ragan Communications reveals the six steps you can take today to improve your email effectiveness. What words should you use? How long should your email be? Should you include images or links? How many? Get the answers now.
You will learn:
The best times and days to send emails.
Why you should link to longer content.
How to jettison corporate-speak to address your workforce in genuine ways.
Verbiage you can cut to instantly improve your emails.
Whether videos and images help or hurt your message engagement.
The best way to ensure that employees open and read your emails. (Hint: It has to do with segmentation.)
How much space you have at the top of an email—whether mobile or desktop—to grab readers’ attention.
How to boost your employees’ engagement with your emails.
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Welcome to the 7th Annual Strategic Internal Communications - East, Virtual Conference
We welcome you to the top-rated 7th Annual Strategic Internal Communications - East conference gone virtual!
Join in to go over a few notes on how to maximize your virtual training experience, an outline of the agenda for today, and navigate where to find resources.
10:05 am - 10:30 am
Chairperson's Welcome & Speed Networking - GAME ON NATION
Blair Bloomston, CEO | Game On Nation
Welcome to ALI's 7th Annual Strategic Internal Communications - East virtual conference. Back by popular demand, we bring you Game On Nation to facilitate this year's conference while adding the element of play to enhance your learning and networking experience over the next 2 days.
10:30 am - 10:45 am
How to Communicate Regularly & Transparently as You Continue to Support Your Employees & Communities During Times of Uncertainty - NEWELL BRANDS
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have unprecedented effects on the world as we know it, Newell Brands is closely monitoring the situation and making decisions in the best interest of our employees, consumers, customers, and communities.
As we respond to the ongoing situation, we are doing everything possible to deliver excellent support to our partners and delight our consumers while prioritizing the health and wellbeing of our employees.
Hear from Newell Brands and discover how they ensured transparent and regular communications during this pandemic, including tactics to help you support frontline and office-based employees.
10:50 am - 11:05 am
Launching and Governing A Successful Modern Mobile Intranet to Captivate A Remote Workforce - ALKERMES & LOCAL WISDOM
Julia Adam, Director, Commercial Communications | Alkermes
Pinaki Kathiari, CEO & Owner | Local Wisdom
Many of us face insurmountable odds as communicators. We do so much for our businesses and audiences: inform, educate, train, connect, engage, make compliant, keep productive, and more. As internal communications and employee experience are relatively new functions, many of us have small teams to manage this onslaught.
Faced with inadequate channels, an intranet that wasn’t being used, and a disparate audience – Alkermes needed to learn how internal communications had to adjust for a remote workforce of 650 field employees.
At Alkermes they knew that successful business results come from the right combination of communication team members working within the best-fitting digital channels for audiences. In this insightful talk, learn about the journey of launching Alks2GO, the flagship, award-winning, mobile Intranet that’s gotten rave reviews from staff, and high engagement from leadership with 89% of top performers visiting the app every day.
You’ll walk out with an overview of the Alks2GO journey, which includes tips to help you:
Choose the right communication technologies
Architect and design your intranet
Create and execute a launch communications campaign
Build a pipeline of content and editorial calendar
Tips and lessons learned to meet employees where they are at – and to make it fun along the way!
11:10 am - 11:25 am
Meet Your Employees Where They Are: Integrating a Common Platform That Connects to the Channels Employees Use – TEGNA & SocialChorus
Gregg Apirian, Chief Experience Officer | Korbyt
Elizabeth Mull, Director, Employee Communications | TEGNA
Details coming soon!
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Breakout Session: How Has Your Organization Managed Employee Engagement and Communications During These Critical Times
It has been a year of uncertainty, crisis, and learning a new way of work.
During this session, you'll be split into smaller groups where you'll have the opportunity to discuss your challenges, but more importantly your successes, with your peers.
We ask that each group choose someone to take notes of all the ideas shared. Each group will submit these via chat in addition to the One-Drive folder for reference post-conferenc.
12:05 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch Break - Sessions Resume At 1:00
Take this time to grab something to eat and catch up on work. Feel free to catch up on things alone or if you'd like to grab something to eat and join a group - we'll have a breakout room available for you to continue discusssions.
Chat will remain open if you have any questions, comments, or concerns before we resume.
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Game On: Avoiding the After Lunch Slump
Blair Bloomston, CEO | Game On Nation
We've got a full afternoon and no time to slow down.
This session will help shake things up and energize you after lunch.
1:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Three Strategies to Internally Communicate Support for Anti Racism and Discrimination Practices to Your Employees - FIIX SOFTWARE
Dean Delpeache, Sr. Manager of Talent Acquisition | Fiix Software
Details coming soon!
1:35 pm - 2:00 pm
Communication Evolution: Adapting Your Email Strategy During COVID-19 and Beyond - THE KROGER CO.
Lisa Allison, Store Communications Manager | The Kroger Co.
Sponsored by PoliteMail
Creating and executing a new communications strategy and campaign is no small task. Months of hard work go into developing your strategy and planning out every detail of your campaign to making sure it’s solid. Unfortunately, COVID-19 had other plans, and for many everything changed overnight.
Learn how Kroger, the U.S.’s largest grocer rolled out a new internal email campaign to communicate with all stores across the country. With data collected using PoliteMail, Kroger was able to make informed decisions about their emails to evolve their communications strategy throughout the course of the pandemic and beyond.
In this session you will learn:
How Kroger responded to the COVID-19 crisis with target and timely email communication
What data was collected using PoliteMail to influence decision making and evolve a strategy
What changes were made as a resulted of data trends
How cadence affects email readership and engagement
Plans for the path going forward
2:05 pm - 2:30 pm
Creating a Business Case for Utilizing New Technology to Communicate with a Primarily Deskless Workforce - AVERA HEALTH
Jen McKeown, Director of Marketing Communications | Avera Health
Amy Jenkins, Director of Client Success & Strategy | theEMPLOYEEapp
Sponsored by theEMPLOYEEapp
In a short period of time Avera Helath was able to identify their need for new communication technology, received leadership buy-in, and deployed their first employee app.
This session will showcase proven tactics and strategies to help you identify and implement new technologies with the creation of a clear plan to help you do so, including how to:
Work with your employees to understand the shortcomings in your existing internal communications tactics
Make a successful business case to leadership for investing in new tools and technologies to better communicate with and engage all employees
Quickly move from vendor selection to successful deployment
Develop a content approach that meets both the needs and wants of your employees
2:35 pm - 2:50 pm
7 Steps to Help You Build an Internal Communications Strategy That Yields Results in a Decentralized Organization - NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Maria Potepalova, Associate Director of Integrated Communications | North Carolina State University
Discover how NC State Poole College of Management, a young and innovative business school that has never had a formal internal communications strategy over its 25 years of history, develop an internal communications strategy that has proven to be effective.
This session will walk you through a nonlinear process of establishing systematic internal communications through organizational research, strategizing, planning, and implementation. If you don’t know where to start or are looking for examples of lessons learned, you will benefit from this session.
Learn how to:
Understand internal communications as an interdisciplinary management function
Communicate with your employees where they are
Know what leadership wants to achieve through internal communications
Set up a successful strategy and specific action items
2:55 pm - 3:35 pm
Rethinking Employee Communications in the Age of WFH
Kristin Williamson, Principal, Head of Corporate Marketing & Communications | Hamilton Lane
Lara Smith, Director, Communications | Somatus, Inc.
Kristi O’Brien, Program Director, Employee and Leader Communications | Northwestern Medicine
Alice Grey Harrison, APR, EVP, Strategic Communications | FORVIS
Sara Jackson, Executive Director | Internal Comms Pro
Tarek Kamil, CEO & Founder | Cerkl
Having employees work from home comes with its own set of unique challenges.
So how do you make sure employees are engaged and motivated even when they are away from their traditional work environment?
This forward-thinking panel will provide you with proven techniques and strategies to help you seize the opportunity and think long-term.
3:35 pm - 3:45 pm
Day 1 Closing Remarks & Setting the Stage for Day 2
Blair Bloomston, CEO | Game On Nation
You've covered a lot today. Take this time to ask any final questions or share 'a-ha' moments with the group.
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Virtual Cocktail Party & Reception
Grab a cocktail, beer, wine, or drink of choice and join us for some fun!
Day 3 - 07/23/2020
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Coffee & Comms: The Employee Communications and Engagement Solution for Frontline and Deskless Workers - THEMPLOYEEAPP
This demonstration and conversation will address the communications and employee engagement needs of the 3 billion frontline workers and deskless employees.
theEMPLOYEEapp was created by professionals with decades of communications and HR experience to address the challenges organizations face in communicating with a dispersed, frontline and deskless workforce through the use of mobile technology. Our solution wasn’t developed by a group of tech folks thinking they understood the issues that exist — we actually have lived and consulted on them.
With the employee as the focus of our development, theEMPLOYEEapp is more than just a newsfeed. It is a holistic internal communication solution that allows frontline workers and deskless employees to have fast and easy access to the information, documents and tools they need to succeed in their work.
Learn more about why theEMPLOYEEapp is the leading solution for internal communication and engagement for frontline workers and deskless employees.
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Chair Recap & Energizer to Start the Day - GAME ON NATION
Blair Bloomston, CEO | Game On Nation
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Ways to Implement Cost-Effective Tools to Improve Productivity and Collaboration - NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
Michael Hughes, HR Development & Inclusion Specialist | Former Dept of Veterans Affairs
Creating a work environment where people feel supported, appreciated, and motivated isn’t rocket science; but it does take work. And it starts at the top of your organization.
During this session, learn what leaders can both do and say to create and sustain a highly-engaged workforce. Also, see how using three simple strategies can create a workplace where people love coming to work and perform at their best.
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Three Strategies to Effectively Communicate with a Dispersed Workforce During a Crisis - OCHSNER HEALTH SYSTEM
Stafford Maestri, Manager of Physician and Executive Communications | Ochsner Health
Communicating with employees during a crisis can be a challenge, especially when you have a lot of vital information you need to get across. It’s even more difficult when the crisis is an unknown virus affecting the entire world.
Ochsner Health is a 16+ hospital health system across the Gulf South that spent the month of April as one of the biggest COVID-19 hotspots in the country.
In this session, you will learn how Ochsner Health used effective and timely communications to instill a sense of calm and trust among its 26,000 employees during a national pandemic.
11:00 am - 11:40 am
“Real Talk” Panel Discussion: Building an Equitable, Antiracist Workplace
Dorianne St Fleur, Racial Equity Consultant & Coach | Dorianne St Fleur Consulting
Michele Heyward, Founder | PositiveHire
Dean Delpeache, Sr. Manager of Talent Acquisition | Fiix Software
Ann Melinger, CEO | Brilliant Ink
Andrew Blotky, Communications Expert & Leadership Coach | Azure Leadership Group
Many organizations and individuals are in the midst of a long-overdue “awakening,” realizing just HOW MUCH work needs to be done to dismantle systems of inequality and racism in the workplace -- but many are struggling to know where to get started.
This is your chance to have some real talk with a panel of experts who have devoted much of their careers to helping organizations fight racism, address systemic inequalities, and adopt antiracist policies and processes at work. They’ll share their insights and recommendations, and answer your questions on how to make meaningful progress within your own organizations. The panel includes:
Moderated by: Ann Mellinger, CEO, Brilliant Ink
Panelists include:
Michele Heyward, Founder,PositiveHire
Dean Delpeache, Sr. Manager of Talent Acquisition,Fiix Software
Neelam Chand, Senior Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion Officer,Zions Bank
Dorianne St. Fleur, Racial Equity Consultant & Coach, Dorianne St Fleur Consulting
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Stretch Break: Refill Your Coffee, Check Your Email, & Grab a Bite to Eat
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
Communicating Effectively With Your Frontline Employees During Times of Uncertainty - DOMINO'S
Stacie Barrett (she/her/hers), Director, Internal Communication | Domino's
Details coming soon!
12:20 pm - 12:50 pm
Numbers to Stories: Using Visual Storytelling to Bring Your IC Data to Life - BRILLIANT INK
Jackie Berg, Head of Research & Business Development | Brilliant Ink
One of our greatest opportunities as internal communications professionals is to tap into the power of data. While our colleagues in Marketing have long used data-driven insights to set and refine strategies, communicators have lagged behind. Now, as internal communications tools and resources become increasingly sophisticated, we’re gaining access to more and more powerful data about our people's communications preferences and behaviors. But it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the volume of data and how to pull out the most important insights.
In this session, discover how to gather data from storytelling and apply it to internal communications to help you pull out key insights from your measurement data and present them in a visually compelling way. The session will cover specific tips and techniques for:
Distilling and translating data - from newsletter opens to open-ended survey comments - into actionable insights.
Choosing the right kinds of visuals to illustrate different types of data points.
Tailoring your data story for a leadership audience, highlighting the information that matters most.
Using your measurement story to demonstrate how you’re moving the needle on employee engagement, and to get more resources, budget, and support!
You will learn strategies for analyzing and extracting key insights from common sources of internal communications data, including email and newsletter clicks/opens and survey responses, as well as how to:
Use different types of visualizations to illustrate various types of data and tell a compelling story to key stakeholders
Gain insights into the best ways to advance from simply presenting data, to sharing analysis, recommendations, and next steps
Collect meaningful quantitative data from places you’d least expect - without necessarily investing in expensive software and tracking tools
12:55 pm - 1:10 pm
Communicating Uncertainty - DELTA AIR LINES
Laura Lee Kong, GM, Comms, and Employee Engagement, Flight Ops. | Delta Air Lines
Details coming soon!
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm
Panel Session: Leading Your Teams' Post Crisis Return to Work
Gregg Apirian, Chief Experience Officer | Korbyt
Laura Lee Kong, GM, Comms, and Employee Engagement, Flight Ops. | Delta Air Lines
David Pitre, President | Davis & Company
Elizabeth Mull, Director, Employee Communications | TEGNA
Kathy Eichlin, Head, Internal Communications | Syngenta North America
Returning to regular work is imminent for many employees across the world. There are the essentials to consider this return is properly handled, from rethinking the physical workspace to maintaining safe practices and intensified cleaning of the space.
But how do you address employee morale after such a shakeup? Chances are you'll have some employees back in the office as others remaining working remotely, how do you ensure your communication and tactics reach both properly?
In this final panel session, our IC leaders hope to ease your mind and provide you with tactics you can start implementing now to make your return to work a success.
Panelists Include:
Laura Lee Kong, GM - Communications & Employee Engagement, Flight Operations, Delta Air Lines
Kathy Eichlin, Head, Internal Communications, Syngenta North America
Elizabeth Mull, Director, Employee Communications, TEGNA
David Pitre, President, Davis & Company
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Final Thoughts, Action Items, & Close of the 7th Annual Strategic Internal Communications Conference
Blair Bloomston, CEO | Game On Nation
Our virtual conference moderator will outline the top 5 things you can do right now as this virtual conference ends to refresh and enhance your internal communications strategy.
Speakers
Joel-Michael Martin Account Executive | PoliteMail Software
Laura Lee Kong GM, Comms, and Employee Engagement, Flight Ops. | Delta Air Lines
Lara Smith Director, Communications | Somatus, Inc.
Kristin Williamson Principal, Head of Corporate Marketing & Communications | Hamilton Lane
Kathy Eichlin Head, Internal Communications | Syngenta North America
Alice Grey Harrison APR, EVP, Strategic Communications | FORVIS
Elizabeth Mull Director, Employee Communications | TEGNA
Kristi O'Brien Program Director, Employee and Leader Communications | Northwestern Medicine
David Pitre President | Davis & Company
Maria Potepalova Associate Director of Integrated Communications | North Carolina State University
Julia Race Director of Strategy | Integral
Julia Adam Director, Commercial Communications | Alkermes
Jackie Berg Head of Research & Business Development | Brilliant Ink
Blair Bloomston CEO | Game On Nation
Andrew Blotky Communications Expert & Leadership Coach | Azure Leadership Group
Pinaki Kathiari CEO & Owner | Local Wisdom
Tarek Kamil CEO & Founder | Cerkl
Sara Jackson Executive Director | Internal Comms Pro
Michael Hughes HR Development & Inclusion Specialist | Former Dept of Veterans Affairs
Kevin Finke Founder & Chief Experience Officer | Experience Willow
Ethan McCarty CEO | Integral
What People are Saying
“Very nice to hear from people running into the same issues. Such good takeaways to bring home to my team”
Communications Coordinator
Magna International
“Best conference I have been to. Great speakers, great vibe and very well organized”
Director of Employee Communications
Qualcomm
“GREAT conference! I loved the format and am BLOWN AWAY at how well you were able to keep everything on track. Speakers were amazingly cooperative w/time limits. Very respectful, professional experience and FUN too! You did a great job!”
A week prior to the virtual conference you will receive information regarding the tool being used, tips to maximize your experience, and any other details to ensure a positive conference experience.
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Attend this virtual conference and receive HALF-OFF your registration for an in-person conference through July 2021.*
Benefits of Attending this Virtual Conference
Join your peers for interactive discussions designed to provide you with solutions for your most pressing challenges.
Meet 20+ communications professionals face-to-face while remaining safe
3 information-packed days
1 track learning environment
Case studies, panels, and interactive hands-on breakout sessions
Access to presentations and recording post-conference
Certificate of attendance for CEU's
Networking list to continue the conversation after the training ends
Content from leading organizations, consultants, and visionaries delivered to you wherever you are and available to access and share with colleagues later
Guaranteed extensive, how-to instructions that you can use immediately
Opportunity to ask questions to speakers and peers in real-time
This isn't a passive experience! You will be encouraged to weigh in with poll questions, engage via chat throughout the event, and turn on your camera and sound during group breakout sessions.
Terms & Conditions:
Visit our Virtual Conference FAQ page for full information about payment, cancellation, postponement, and substitutions.
- Payment by check or invoice option is available on the registration form.
- Payment must be received by 2 weeks prior to the start of the meeting.
- No refunds are allowed on virtual conferences. All attendees will receive the event recording and copies of the presentations after the event is held.
Questions?
Email ALI or call us at 888-362-7400 or 773-695-9400
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Testimonials
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