Thanks again to Michael Jordan for his very interesting presentation on Sustainable Storytelling on 1 December 2023. Please see below some photos of the event!
The Geneva Communicators Network is pleased to announce our first post-COVID-19 in-person lunchtime seminar!
Pressure is mounting on companies and organisations to prove that they’re taking concrete, meaningful steps to achieve sustainability and ESG. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, is pushing for new rules to require greater transparency in a company’s environmental- and social-impact reports. NGOs and UN agencies are increasingly aiming to showcase how they are contributing to achieve the SDGs. For communicators, sustainability storytelling is a solution as our speaker, Michael Jordan, will explain in the seminar.
Date: Thursday 1 December 2022
Time: 12h30 to 14h00
*NEW location*: The Swiss Press Club, Domaine de Penthes, Chem. de l’Impératrice 18, 1292 Pregny-Chambésy, Geneva
Fee: CHF 30.- per person includes drinks and snacks
Please register online >>
About the speaker: Michael J. Jordan is currently a Lausanne-based Specialist in Global Communications, Media Relations, Staff Training & Executive Writing. He has lived on four continents, working across three industries. As a Foreign Correspondent, he’s a former UN correspondent who’s also reported from 30 countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Southern Africa, for major media like Foreign Policy, French news agency AFP, the Christian Science Monitor and South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. As a Visiting Professor, he’s taught International Journalism from New York to Prague to Hong Kong; most recently, at top Chinese universities in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou.
As a Global Communications Consultant, he’s shared his toolkit of skills, strategies and storytelling with both for-profit and non-profit clients, with Consultancies ranging from HIV orphans, maternal health and domestic violence in Africa, to environmental protection, worker’s rights and telecommunications in China. As an independent Consultant today, he serves in a variety of roles, including as Executive Writer for the Mekong River Commission in Laos; and as an Ambassador and Trainer for the Geneva-based NGO, ConnectAID. He recently delivered online trainings for NGO activists world-wide on how to generate storytelling that illuminates their organization’s impact and persuades skeptical donors; and a two-day workshop in Geneva for the Communications team of the Medicines for Malaria Venture, on how to craft Impact Stories.
A new internship position (paid) – Communications Consultant – Medicines Patent Pool – Geneva/Mumbai – remote is now posted on our careers page.
A new communications consultancy is available at UNICEF Geneva – six months – apply now!
A new internship position (paid) – Digital Communications at IATA, Geneva is now posted on our careers page.
Please join us for this online event with the Basel Communicator’ Network:
Wednesday 1. September at 6pm
Discussion: CDC COVID Communication Strategy Slides
We have a timely and extremely interesting topic for our next meeting – We will review an actual COVID communications strategy slide deck from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The slides outline the challenges posed by breakthrough COVID infections and declining vaccine effectiveness, and how they impact the CDC’s comms strategy.
The CDC Comms Strategy presentation, obtained by the Washington Post, offers us a unique opportunity to observe expert scientific and crisis communications strategy, AND conduct the thought experiment of putting ourselves in the role of advisors to Alain Berset and devising our own COVID comms strategy, given the latest information.
See you on Wednesday for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion: register here>>
