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PR Rock Stars: Trane’s Heidi McGuire

Communications Conversations

That work ended a couple years ago, but I knew I wanted to stay closely connected with Heidi so I invited her to be a part of a corporate communicator mastermind group I manage. I always enjoy reading your interviews with other communications professionals, and I am humbled you asked me to participate. It’s never crowded.”.

Energy 68
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Acting Ethically Means Going Beyond Performative Action – Candace Hamana

Ethical Voices

I got my start in public relations, interestingly enough, doing political campaigns and community organizing back in South Carolina in 2007. I learned a lot about public speaking, community organizing, canvas operations, and just really being an agent of change in my local community. Absolutely.

Ethics 81
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The Legendary Prince with a Spanish Passport and Bulgarian Heart.

Maxim Behar

By Simona Dimitrova, 24 hours Daily, Sofia, Bulgaria "It was my second or third meeting with King Simeon II in Madrid, with whom we became close friends after first meeting him in 1992, and since then, I have interviewed him several times before.

Hotels 64
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New Year’s Honours 2015

Stuart Bruce

He now lives in the US and has held several senior PR positions with Microsoft including leading PR for Corporate Citizenship, Windows and now Office. Against all the odds in 2005 he held onto his seat, mainly because he was such a highly regarded local MP. But, he doesn’t deserve an honour for any of that.

Ethics 95
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How to Build Trust Ethically and Effectively – Roy Reid

Ethical Voices

I’ve been in the public relations business for a little over 30 years now in both corporate and agency backgrounds, a partner in a PR firm for 13 years, and an executive with Advent Health, a large, not-for-profit healthcare system. Listen to the full interview, with bonus content, here.

Ethics 77
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From classroom to boardroom – crisis management lessons from the auto industry

PR Conversations

My critique of these themes is that they are often Anglo-American centric and show little consideration of the specific applications necessary to take account of local communications needs, within an increasingly global context in which crisis situations play out. I was fortunate that five senior practitioners agreed to be interviewed.

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How to Get On in New Communications: Be Nice

ZudePR

Another example is the benefit of ‘free learning’ I receive while doing the thought leader interviews for my weekly PR podcast. For me, as a local government employee, there are clear political boundaries. “Where, if anywhere, do I draw the full disclosure line? I don’t think I draw a line.”