Conference Speakers

Tamara L. Gillis, Ed.D., ABC
13 Axioms for Surviving Interesting Times


Based on a survey of IABC international leadership and recent IABC sponsored research, there are 13 axioms that drive communication success and a communicator’s ability to ride out these unsettling time. While these recent times have tested communicators and their clients and employers, it is in these times that our skills are put to the test. It is a time to return to our base functions and core competencies. This study is based on a survey of IABC thought leaders and is the preliminary research for an IABC book project.

About Tamara

Tamara Gillis, Ed.D., ABC, straddles the worlds of communication practice and academia. As an author and communications consultant with Cooper Wright LLC of Falls Church, Virginia, she continues to influence the practice of communications and change management for government and corporate clients. As a faculty member at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, she is preparing tomorrow’s corporate communicators. She is a frequent book author for IABC and contributing editor to Communication World.
 

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