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From journalism to strategic communications, Joe McMann’s career journey has brought him to his latest destination: EMEA director of internal and executive communications at Marriott. Here, he tells us how he is supporting a diverse, dispersed workforce and embracing innovative channels to foster employee engagement.

Enhance your organisational storytelling with this online lunchtime workshop, run by the History of Internal Communication, an ESRC-funded project based at Northumbria University that began in 2022.

Deborah Hulme, founder of Minerva Engagement and trainer of a two-part neuroscience masterclass for IoIC, explains how IC professionals can better communicate to effectively support the brain to understand and retain information.

Cancer Research UK employs 4,000 people with a diverse range of backgrounds. By sharing their stories, the Valuing Difference campaign aims to reflect this diversity as part of the charity’s EDI strategy.

Award: Best Storytelling Winning project: My Life at Sky for and by Sky

Capturing your audience’s attention and maintaining a sensitive approach are key in internal comms. Through their project, Loneliness Lies Beneath, Limehouse and Lloyds Banking Group showcase how those two concepts go hand in hand.

The IC Index research found that UK employees still both rely on and prefer email as a way of hearing news about and from their employer. But how can IC professionals make the best use out of this channel? Here, five experts provide their practical advice on how to deliver specificity, conciseness and intention every time you press Send.

The second of our panel events, where we delve a little deeper into the findings in the IC Index.

Richard Etienne looks back on the lessons he’s learned and the range of skills he’s developed in various media roles over the past 20 years and how he is applying them to his latest role of director of internal communications at Elsevier.