A Good Question to Start With How often does a business leader walk into a board meeting and cite an internal communications framework to explain why a transformation succeeded or failed? When was the last time someone in finance or operations asked whether the organisation was following the AMEC Barcelona Principles or the IABC Global […]
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AI in IC: What Does Using It Well Actually Look Like?
Most IC teams are using AI in some form. The question worth asking in 2026 is whether any of it is making the work better, or whether it is just making it faster. The PoliteMail and Ragan Internal Communication Trends 2026 found that 78% of internal communicators are using AI in some capacity. That is […]
Video vs Memo vs Silence
What does your choice of channel say about how much you trust your employees? In the space of a few years, the question of how to communicate major change to a workforce has produced answers as different as the organisations giving them. Looking at five global leaders side by side, the channel choice alone tells […]
27 Internal Communications Events Worth Your Time in 2026
Are you making space this year to invest in your own professional development? Most roundups of IC conferences stop at North America and the UK. If you are based in Singapore, Australia, Dubai or anywhere across Asia Pacific and the Middle East, those lists do not serve you well. This one tries to do better. […]
A chapter in ASPIRE
I contributed a chapter to ASPIRE: Stories and Insights from Global Indians in Communications, edited by Amith Prabhu and Sarika Chavan. My piece looks at how internal communications is reshaping public relations — specifically, how employees have quietly become one of the most consequential forces in how a brand’s reputation plays out. Whether it’s a […]
GCC Video Series | Spotlight on Change and Communications A conversation with Rishi Tanna
In the first edition of the Global Capability Center Video Series, I speak with Rishi Tanna, a marketing and communications leader with two decades of experience across financial services, including banking, wealth management, insurance, and GCC environments. Our conversation explores a question many communicators in Global Capability Centers are grappling with today: how does the […]
Are you a Channel Manager or a Strategic Communicator?
The conversation described earlier reveals a pattern that appears across organisations of every size: internal communicators are skilled at their craft but constrained by how their role is understood. Let’s examine what separates communication as a distribution function from communication as a strategic capability—and what that means for how you develop your practice. The Core […]
When Communication Becomes Just Distribution
Two professionals sat across from each other at a quiet café. Sarah works in internal communication at a mid-sized company. Marcus consults on organisational change. What started as networking quickly became something more honest. “I think I’m doing my job,” Sarah said, stirring her coffee slowly. “But I also think I’m missing the point of […]
Personal Branding Predictions for 2026
The real change isn’t that more people are building a brand. It’s why they now have to. For years, personal branding was optional. You could be excellent at your work and largely invisible outside your organization. Your career moved through performance reviews, internal reputation and occasional references. That model is quietly disappearing. The shift underway […]
Comms AI vs. The Competition | What Internal Communicators Need to Know
A critical analysis of Simpplr’s new AI teammate and how it stacks up against actual competitors in the internal communications platform market Simpplr recently launched Comms AI, generating buzz in the internal communications space. But before you adopt another AI tool, it’s worth understanding how this compares to actual competitors (not just general AI tools […]









