Our guests from the Netherlands, Tunbosun Afolayan and Dieuwke Swain, talk about moving countries, cultural differences, ethical dilemmas and communicating about science. Tunbosun Afolayan has four degrees ranging from a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Mineral Sciences to an MBA in Energy and Sustainability. She has worked in the gas and petroleum, solid minerals, water and finance industries, and was recently named a Rising Woman in Energy by the Mediaville Women in Maritime and Energy award. She is a new IABC EMENA region member, having recently moved from Lagos, Nigeria to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Tunbosun was a facilitator at our IABC Converge event last year on the rise and impact of short term gig and contract roles in comms careers Roundtable. She is joined by Dieuwke Swain, who is one of our IABC EMENA region board members and also lives in the Netherlands. Dieuwke also has a mixed scientific and communications background. After gaining Bachelors and Masters degrees in Molecular Biology, she made a career switch into supply chain at the turn of the millennium, and then moved into internal communications 10 years’ ago. Since then she has worked both in-house and as a consultant for multinationals and non-profits. She is now a Communications Manager at IDEXX, a global leader in veterinary diagnostics, software, and water testing.

Take a listen to one of our IABC World Conference Listening Lounge sessions, The Rise Of The Connectors – The Dance Between Technology and Internal Communication | Presented by: Monique Zytnik, Global Employee Communication Subject Matter Expert, Open Communication, Andreas Ringsted, Chief Digital Officer, Open Communication, and Steffen Henke, Global Head of Internal Communication at Deutsche Post DHL Group. You can sign up for a Digital Pass for full access to the keynote speakers and plenary session AND a further 9 Listening Lounge podcasts: https://wc.iabc.com/World-Conference-2022/Digital-Pass. In this episode some of our EMENA region colleagues also share their experience from the live conference in New York City. Hear from Katie Macaulay, Managing Director of AB; Jasna Suhadolc, Founding Director of Actuado, and Howard Krais, Head of Employee Experience Clean Air Johnson Matthey. We hope you enjoy!

It's finally happening for the first time in 3 years. The world's leading event for business communicators kicks off on 26 June in NYC - #IABC22 World Conference. Expecting 800 comms professionals from across the globe to be there but if you're not able to join us then there's definitely a way you can experience it. Listen to a brief chat with Zora Artis, Chair of the IABC World Conference 2022 about the freshly released Digital Pass. IABC has released the Digital Pass a taster of some of the incredible content. There are 5 general sessions live-streamed and on-demand for 30 days, plus 10 Listening Lounges on-demand for 180 days. It's only US$99 for IABC members and US199 for non-members. So jump on and grab your digital pass at https://bit.ly/3xS8ak7 • Opening keynote Frank X. Shaw CCO Microsoft "Find Your Voice! Diplomacy, Influence, and the Evolution of Communications" Live stream 0900-1015 EST Mon 27 Jun (Q&A with Danielle Bond SCMP) • Plenary Panel Communication Professional 2030 Live stream 1600-1700 EST Mon 27 Jun (moderated by Justin Joffe with Maria Gemskie Myron Marlin @Michael McIntyre) • Plenary session Dan Gregory Kieran Flanagan Why Influence Beats Intelligence In Communication Live stream 0900-1015 EST Tue 28 Jun (Q&A with Zora Artis, GAICD IABC Fellow SCMP) • Plenary Panel Changing the Conversation: Communicating Climate Science (moderated by Peter Finn with Taniya Thomas Trisha Bauman Rachael Moore @Dr. Marco Tedesco) Live stream 1600-1700 EST Tue 28 Jun • Closing keynote Lisa Osborne Ross US CEO Edelman Communicating with Belief-Driven Employees & Consumers in 2022 (& QA with Danielle Bond SCMP) Live stream 1115-1230 EST Wed 29 Jun Plus 10 Listening Lounges: • Go Far Together: How Leaders Can Work Together Digitally to Inspire a Global Audience Roger Christie Craig Mullaney • Four Stories Leaders Use to Create Meaning Nancy Duarte • The Neuroscience of Pronouns Dr. Laura McHale • Sustainability: A Critical Part of Your Communications Strategy Alisa Bonsignore • Communication Can Drive Buy-In for Purpose Transformation phil preston - purpose expert • People over Brand: Leveraging LinkedIn for Exec Thought Leadership that Drives Brand Awarenss Amanda Guisbond • The Rise of the Connectors - The Dance Between Tech and Internal Comms Monique Zytnik Andreas Ringsted • Communication: Breaking Barriers Across the Globe Prerna Sinha • Tricksy Words: Finding and Refining Belle Walker • What 1,000 Hours of Call Have Taught me About Connection Lisa Riemers

Russel-Olivia-Brooklands is known in the internal comms world as ROB. He is a UK based consultant and trainer for The Communication Game and has worked with companies such as Sony Entertainment and the United Nations. In this IABC EMENA podcast episode ROB talks about why a communication team might not be performing and what they need to do their job. He delves into further challenges faced by internal communications. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Meet Zora Artis, GAID IABC Fellow SCMP, CEO of Artis Advisory, Co-founder of The Alignment People, and Chair of the IABC World Conference 2022 as we talk about everything from strategic alignment to encounters on escalators and free ranging employees. Zora is Australia’s leading Alignment Strategist and has worked with leaders, executives, and boards for over 3 decades to ensure their organisation's structure, leadership, people, brand, communication, and most importantly culture, work together to support their strategy and purpose. Combining an award-winning career with vast commercial and board director experience and my alignment methodology Zora now guides clients to optimise simplicity, process, and team contribution. The outcome drives commercial and social impact strategies. You can find some of Zora's research and white papers, plus contact details at www.artisadvisory.com and LinkedIn.

Disinformation and propaganda is the evil and dark side of what communication can do. Join us as German based international communication expert Ute Schaeffer dissects what disinformation is, when it is used, how it works and what it aims to do. It is a topic that spans wars, elections, pandemics and times of dispute AND deliberately aims to cause social disharmony. This podcast delves into the responsibilities of journalists, what we should be teaching our children and what we can individually do. Ute asks key questions such as 'where do we have the space to confront ourselves with the ideas of other people without going into a free flow of aggression and dispute?' Tune into this big picture discussion with a communications focus, hosted by Monique Zytnik on behalf of the IABC EMENA region. Ute Schaeffer is an international communications professional with a background in journalism and publishing. She is currently Head of Media & Public Relations / Digital Communication for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH - GIZ is the german federal agency for international cooperation and development. GIZ provides tailor-made, cost-efficient and effective services for sustainable development in cooperation with partner in more than 120 countries worldwide, also in fragile and post conflict countries. Ute is also the author of Fake statt Fakt - fake vs fact and has worked with organisations such as Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcast, setting up the Ukrainian program and also as the Editor in Chief. Her focus topics include digital communication and the role of disinformation; international policy and development; human rights; and the forward and backward steps in democratisation worldwide. Ute also works with organisations on establishing collaborative workflows and teaching them how to be fit for digital challenges. For more information contact Ute via her website: http://uteschaeffer.de or LinkedIn https://de.linkedin.com/in/ute-schaeffer-5a58b0119 The IABC World Conference 2022 is proud to present “Stronger Together: Gift of Communications Idea Exchange” to benefit The Media Assistance Coordination Center, set up by The Media Development Foundation specifically to combat dis- and misinformation and to support journalists in the Ukraine. All are invited to support this effort and donate! Gift of Communications participants at the World Conference in New York will be randomly matched in pairs and encouraged to learn from each other – to be mentored or reverse-mentored, to brainstorm or run an idea by another professional communicator, or to gain insight into a different culture, industry or marcomms tool. Look for links to donate and participate soon!

Interested in becoming a mentor or being mentored? Tune in to the IABC EMENA Region podcast with Monique Zytnik and Karen Matthews as we discuss mentoring. Karen Matthews is the Senior Manager, Corporate Relations and Communications at RMIT Europe – the European hub of RMIT University. Karen is also the current Vice Chair of the IABC EMENA Region Board 2021/22. She has over 15 years of experience in corporate communications and has worked in global environments in industry, higher education, government and not-for-profit in Australia, Vietnam, Spain and Canada. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion, gender equality, and particularly the power of mentoring to support and empower women in business. Karen is based in Barcelona, Spain. A special thanks to Iona Wilder for editing this episode.

Are you curious about what it takes to set up your own communications consultancy? What do you need to be at the top? What does an agency look for when hiring? Join us for this latest International Association of Business Communicators EMENA region podcast with Monique Zytnik. Our guests today are Jake Moss and Simon Wright. Jake Moss is the Founder and Editor-in-chief of Vienna's city living guide magazine, Vienna Würstelstand and the creative director at The Wurst Agency - www.thewurst.agency After completing an epic overland travel from Australia to Europe - which involved a motorbike, a horse, a tuktuk and a blog, Jake crash landed in Vienna and founded a magazine. Prior to his international adventures, Jake wrote and worked for several renowned publications on a freelance basis, including The Weekend Australian, The Guardian etc. Simon Wright is former co-founder of Gatehouse and Director at Gallagher, internal communication agency and most recently Executive Chair of Open Communication Group a global internal communication consultancy. He has over two decades experience in running and growing successful, award winning, agencies. Simon also provides coaching and counselling to business leaders, as well as non-exec support to multiple organisations including as a trustee at the wonderful national children’s speech and language charity, "I Can". Beyond the more corporate side, he thoroughly enjoys creating the latest Cotswolds food, drink and shopping hotspot in Moreton-in-Marsh, "No.1 Cotswolds" and has other business ventures in the pipeline. This IABC EMENA podcast was created and produced entirely on a volunteer basis. We welcome your ideas, suggestions and feedback. Contact IABC EMENA Board Member, Monique Zytnik directly via LinkedIn. We hope you enjoy this episode!

Do you need to communicate across borders, languages and cultures? Join Ray Walsh and Cecilia Maldonado as we talk about localising global communication. This episode of the IABC EMENA podcast covers when you should translate, how you should set up your content team and if culture nuances really do matter. About Ray Walsh Ray is the author of "Localizing Employee Communications: A Handbook" (2020, XML Press/Content Wrangler) Preview on Amazon: https://amzn.to/30NB0kK He is specialised in content creation, audience awareness, localization, simplified English, training, and presentation support. As a former journalist and English language teacher, Ray helps organisations shape and execute communications that cross borders and have impact. About Cecilia Maldonado Cecilia has a degree in translation from the National University of Cordoba, and over 20-years of experience in the industry including co-founding, managing and merging language service companies, co-founding the first language industry association in Argentina, volunteering with different international organizations, as well as organizing events such as the Language & Technology Conference, Think Latin America, and the Vendor Management Seminar in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Ireland, Peru and the United States. She is the President of Women in Localization, a non-profit organization that works for the advancement of women and the localization industry. We hope you enjoy our podcast - please connect with us on LinkedIn and let us know what you think!

Morten Dal from Microsoft and Mike Pounsford from Couravel delve into all those tricky life questions that are pertinent right now. Are we finding balance in the current environment? Are we biased towards too much digital? How do we create psychological safety? What do employees want right now? With employees being more productive than ever, rapidly changing environments, uncertainty AND the need for difficult conversations, who better than Morten and Mike? Morten Dal is a global award-winning corporate communications manager and certified Train-The-Trainer PROSCI®️ change manager, and since 2019 working as Senior Customer Success Manager with Microsoft, offering more than 15 years of corporate experience from the customer side (retail, financial sector, foods & beverages). Focus on hybrid work and digital employee experience Building great employee experience: Culture & Communication, Productivity & Wellbeing, Skilling & Growth and Knowledge & Expertise. Morten is guiding and helping to empower enterprises and employees to work in a hybrid work scenario during and beyond Covid-19. Orchestrating large onboarding & training programs in large organisations, handling the people side of change. His employers include: Microsoft, Pandora, Danske Bank, Danisco (DuPont), Copenhagen Business School. Mike is an organisation development specialist in employee communication and engagement. His work involves helping to develop engagement strategies, strengthening the links between what people do and business strategy, and developing the capabilities of leaders and managers to create engaging environments. He is particularly interested in how organisations listen effectively and run surveys, webinars, and workshops for individuals and organisations across the globe. He founded Couravel in 2001 and works with associates so he can provide clients with a lot of experience but without the overheads that go with more traditional consulting models. He has an MBA from London Business School and is accredited under the NTL Organisation Development programme. He recently completed a term as UK President of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Thank you to Iona Wilder for her help editing - greatly appreciated. We hope you enjoy our IABC EMENA Region podcast with Monique Zytnik.