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How will the role of the Corporate Communications team - and its partners - evolve in the near future?
In the last 24 months of repeated disruptions, distortions and discontinuities in the business world, the role of Corporate Communications has been elevated to a critical position in the company ecosystem. Speed, calmness, accountability, flexibility, and resilience are required skills as strategic and tactical stories are carefully managed across all stakeholder groups in what can only be described as 'turbulent times.'
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion drawing on the data from The Conference Board's recent research and the front-line, practical experience of Edelman's leading Corporate Affairs practice. We will explore these topics and deliver informed insights on how the future of the Corporate Communications team – and its partners – is likely to evolve.
Ivan Pollard, Center Leader of the Marketing & Communications Center at The Conference Board, is joined by Jim O’Leary – Edelman U.S. COO, Corporate Affairs Practice Chair, and Global Chair of Impact & ESG.

How to Tell a Coherent and Authentic Sustainability Story
In this podcast, Alex Heath, Managing Director and US Head of Social Impact & Sustainability at Edelman, talks with Denise Dahlhoff, Senior Researcher, Consumer Research, about the growing expectations for companies by various stakeholders—from customers to investors to employees and beyond—to address sustainability and what that implies for telling a coherent, authentic sustainability story to different audiences. Tune in to hear about the following topics:
What do corporate sustainability and social impact entail? How do employees and consumers think about sustainability? Does corporate purpose make employees more productive? How to tell a coherent sustainability story, including challenges and goals yet to be achieved, to different stakeholders?

In this episode of “Influencers,” Peter McGraw, a marketing professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and an expert on emotions and behavioral economics, talks with Denise Dahlhoff, Senior Researcher at The Conference Board, about his latest research on an underexplored topic: singles. Listen to this episode to learn about:
The economic importance of singles and their demographic diversity Marketing to singles, including examples and underleveraged potential Different psychographic segments of singles, including eternal singles and hopeful romantics Opportunities for employers to better target singles

Listen to our Influencers Podcast as Mike Moran, a Senior Fellow of the M&C Center and the Chief Product Officer of SoloSegment, an AI powered martech company that predicts which content should show on your website, uses his real intelligence garnered from 30 years in the space to illuminate what you need to know about the Artificial side of intelligence.

How does the use of financial services vary across Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White (Non-Hispanic) consumers in the US, and how can companies address existing services gaps? And how do multicultural consumers use restaurants, travel, personal services, education, and other services to express their ethnic origins, and what this all means for companies as US demographics are changing? 
 
Listen to this conversation by Ivan Pollard, Leader of the Marketing & Communications Center, with Dana Peterson, Chief Economist, and Denise Dahlhoff, Senior Researcher, about The Conference Board’s latest findings from its multicultural research series in collaboration with General Mills.

The Conference Board's timely annual survey of C-Suite Executives is out and it provides fascinating insights for marketers and communicators. What are C-Suite executives focusing on and how will it help marketers navigate what lies ahead with more certainty?
Join Ivan Pollard, Leader of The Conference Board Marketing and Communications Center, and Denise Dahlhoff, Senior Researcher as they unveil the data from this year’s C-Suite Outlook through the lens of Marketing & Communications.