In this week’s reflection, Carrie draws out three lessons from her conversation with Amanda Kwong, director of the Public Health Communications Collaborative at the de Beaumont Foundation.
Hosted by social impact expert and B Corp leader Carrie Fox, each episode of Mission Forward explores the power of communications. With just the right mix of practical and thought-provoking content, we take on the issues that matter to you, and that support your work as a communicator for change.
In this week’s reflection, Carrie draws out three lessons from her conversation with Amanda Kwong, director of the Public Health Communications Collaborative at the de Beaumont Foundation.
When the words that once built trust start closing doors instead, how do you keep communicating â and keep people listening? Amanda Kwong, director of the Public Health Communications Collaborative at the de Beaumont Foundation, joins Carrie to talk about the art of plain language, the politics of the words we choose, and what it looks like to lead a public health communications network of 40,000 through one of the most turbulent moments in recent memory.
Thirty days into a new CEO role, COVID arrived â and Tonia Wellons responded by building a ten-year plan. This week, Carrie Fox reflects on why that counterintuitive decision is still the right lesson for every leader navigating a world that keeps demanding reaction.
When the pandemic hit, Tonia Wellons had been CEO of the Greater Washington Community Foundation for thirty days â and instead of retreating to short-term thinking, she and her board committed to a ten-year plan. In this conversation with Carrie Fox, she explains why a fixed point on the horizon is most valuable precisely when everything else is in motion.
