
When a Well-Liked Employee Leaves: The Internal-Comms Playbook
Losing a popular employee is a communications event before it's an HR one. How leadership handles the message decides whether the team stays steady — or starts updating résumés.

Losing a popular employee is a communications event before it's an HR one. How leadership handles the message decides whether the team stays steady — or starts updating résumés.

HubSpot, Salesforce, Adobe, Klaviyo, and Braze run the CDP layer under every AdTech stack. See what each vendor owns and why AI engines now bypass it.

Sid Berry founded 71Three — a Houston digital agency named for the 713 area code. Started coding at 14. Paid health insurance for all 11 staff and families during pandemic.

Jennifer Risi, former Worldwide CCO at Ogilvy, founded The Sway Effect in 2019 as a network of independent agencies with DEI at the center of the operating model.

Evan Nierman, founder and CEO of Florida-based crisis PR firm Red Banyan, on how a crisis-focused agency ran its own operations through the pandemic.

David Barkoe, CEO and co-founder of Miami-based Carve Communications, on signing 12 clients during the pandemic, the 2024 Freeman PR acquisition, and — with Managing Director Scott Goldberg — what separates the agency's client model.

John Corey, founding partner of Chicago-based Greentarget, on the firm's survey of 100+ journalists on fake news — and what the findings mean for PR.

Peter Dayot founded Publicus Community in 2011 for resort real estate and hospitality. On Hipsturbia, master-planned communities, and helping clients generate billions in revenue.

Dick Grove founded INK Inc. PR in 1997 in Kansas City — one of the earliest practitioners of the virtual PR office and pay-for-performance billing.

Jennifer Borba von Stauffenberg, founder of Olive Creative Strategies, on a Cyndi Lauper concert that started it all, studying under PR's "Godfather," and the move to Bainbridge Island.