Our Next Event

May 15, 2013

Internal Communications: Change Management Panel
Strategies Proven to Change Employee Behavior

Join PRSA St. Louis on Wednesday, May 15th to learn about internal communications and change management with panelists Patrick Lunsford, Doug Simms and Barb Meyer.  PRSA St. Louis President Stephanie Flynn will moderate the discussion.

The Panelists:

Patrick Lunsford - Manager, Standing Partnership

Patrick helps organizations reach their goals by using strategic communications to connect people—to each other, information, corporate strategies and the overall brand. This interest takes form with work in employee engagement, change management, media relations and digital communications.

A long-term member of the Standing team, Patrick’s internal communications work led to increased employee productivity, better corporate decision making, and cross-company innovations around product and process improvements for multinational clients such as Covidien Pharmaceuticals, Maritz LLC, and Solutia Inc. He leads cross-functional communications planning, manages meaningful corporate content across multiple mediums, provides counsel on executive and crisis communications, and installs a variety of metrics to track engagement levels and identify improvement opportunities.

Doug Simms - Vice President/Co-founder, WellWorks

Doug Simms’ organization, WellWorks, is a total comprehensive corporate wellness program with active support tools that help keep employees engaged and on-track.  Their flexible, individualized programs for wellness are designed to improve employees’ quality of life while lowering absenteeism, workers compensation and healthcare costs.  Experienced health coaches engage and motivate participants to get healthier and feel better.  As a co-founder of WellWorks, Doug sets up custom-made wellness programs for many different small to mid-size companies.  In addition, part of Doug’s job is to help companies internally communicate the benefits of the WellWorks program.  A major component contributing to why a wellness program will fail or succeed is the employee engagement.  The only way to improve employee engagement is to adequately communicate the goals and objectives of the program to the end users.

Barb Meyer - Vice President of Strategic Ministry Communications Mercy Health Systems

Barb Meyer has responsibility for communications across Mercy's four state service area and is the senior marketing/communications leader in Mercy's east Missouri region. Barb has helped manage internal communications strategy for major change management and crisis communications events, includingthe rebranding of all of Mercy's facilities.

Barb is also an accredited business communicator (ABC) with the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).

The Moderator:

Stephanie Flynn, Vice President of Public Relations Black Twig Communications

PRSA St. Louis's President will moderate the panel discussion! Stephanie Flynn, vice president of public relations for Black Twig Communications, brings nearly twelve years of experience in public relations and communications consulting. Flynn has worked with multiple clients in business-to-consumer and business-to-business communications within industries including construction, technology, manufacturing, economic development, non-profit, education, food, lifestyle and hospitality.

Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Ces & Judy's

To register, click HERE. 

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