Recorded Engagements

How changing your language can change your business – The Writer

Brand’s Superpower in your CX fight — dmi: design management institute, June 2016

Interviews + Mentions

The thing that customer experience forgot
Engage Customer Magazine

Leading brands wield words to thrive
Interbrand

New Study by The Writer Says “Tone of Voice” Overlooked and Underused by Most U.S. Companies
Business Wire

The importance of company brand language
The Voice Company

How to implement company brand language
The Voice Company

Don’t Overlook Your Company’s Tone of Voice
CRM Magazine

Is Your Brand Identity Half-Baked?
CommPro

Write like at 5th grader to make more money
HannahHager.com

Finding your voice: How to express your brand through voice and tone
CYNEFIN CO

The Big Interview: How Cisco changed its brand language and the customer experience
Engage Customer Magazine (text version)

Brand Experience and the 5 Senses
Communicate

Adopting a new brand language at Cisco
Journal of Direct, Data and Digital Marketing Practice

What’s the language of your brand?
Marketing Week

Speaking Engagements

Brand’s Superpowers in Your CX fight
Compete Through Service Symposium @ ASU WP Carey School of Business

3×10
IDSA Oregon

Brand’s Superpower in the CX War 
CXPA Insight Exchange

Brand’s Superpower in the CX War 
FUSE

Beyond Products, Managing Experience for Tomorrow’s Business Now
Total CX Leaders Conference (TCXL)

Winning with Words – A simpler, more distinct voice
CX Impact

Winning With Words: How Language Can Help Your Employees Deliver an Amazing Brand Experience and Fulfill the Brand Promise of Your Organization
Advanced Learning Institute’s Communicating Your Brand to Employees

Winning With Words – How Language Can Help Your Employees Deliver An Amazing Brand Experience
The Conference Board’s Extending Your Brand to Employees

A Human Touch: How simplified, conversational language improves the brand experience
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) World Conference
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) San Francisco
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Houston

How to Use Simplified Language to Increase Your Employee Engagement Across a Global Organization Through Improved Readability and Collaboration
Advanced Learning Institute

Winning With Words – How Language Wins Deals
The Market Research Event (TMRE)

Cisco Brand Language (Slideshare)
IABC Houston

A simpler, more distinct voice: An overview of Cisco’s Brand Language
ID8 Insight Series

Simplified Language Will Increase Your Employee Engagement
ALI’s Strategic Internal Communications

Delivering end-to-end value though Cisco’s user interface systems
Ragan Communications webinar

Live Intranet Tour – Social Intranet Best Practices featuring Cisco
Content Week

Web 2.0 for the Enterprise: What Corporations Really Want and Use
Web 2.0 Expo

Unifying the Cisco intranet through hierarchical navigation
International Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems

Papers

Unifying the Cisco intranet through hierarchical navigation
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM/CHI)

Awards

The Winning with Words program won the prestigious CXPA Innovation Award.

Intranet Design Annual (The Year’s Ten Best Intranets) – NN/g

Our 10 tips for better writing won the IABC’s Gold Quill Award.

Judging

CXPA Innovation Awards judging panel
IDSA Student Merit Awards judging panel