Episode 1 of @AmandaMillar’s podcast am&courageous conversations features Wellington’s Mayor, Tory Whanau. It’s a raw and very real insight into her first year in office. Unflinching and upfront and going far deeper than the dog and the dinner.
Read MoreWhat does good leadership look like when the pressure is truly on? In these first months of 2023 we’ve seen all kinds of examples, from the capable and credible to the careless and cringeworthy.
Read MoreIt has to be said that anyone who works in the world of ‘comms’ will say they often feel like the whipping boy for just about any organisational failure. Unhappy customers? Probably a failure to communicate. Stakeholders rebelling? The comms team stuffed the engagement. Getting bad news headlines? Well, you get the point.
Read MoreThere are too few leaders and advocates who truly give truth to power. We look to those people whose vision isn’t some template or abstract concept. If we’re to change, we need inspirational communicators who truly lead us. Who hear us. Who get us. Who speak to us.
Read MoreI now realise it wasn’t so much admitting to others that I was working on the ‘dark side’, as journos call it but rather admitting it to myself. After all I had spent more than 30 years in TV news and current affairs. And I loved it. I lived and breathed it. It was a drug and it was hard to pull the needle out of my arm.
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