MY APPROACH TO COMMUNICATIONS




HOW I THINK ABOUT COMMS

Great communications is intentional. It starts with the right questions.

Whether the work is internal or external, the same principles apply: know what you're trying to say, know who you're saying it to, and hold the work to a high bar.


THE QUESTIONS I START WITH

What are you actually trying to communicate, and why does it matter to the people receiving it?

Who are the heroes in this story, and what makes their experience worth sharing?

What does success look like, and how will you know when you've achieved it?

How do your people—employees, customers, audiences—get the information they need to do their best work or make their best decisions?


WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE

At Stripe, it means editing executive communications for reasoning transparency and running the editorial strategy for the company's internal homepage, treating internal content with the same craft and rigor as anything published externally.

At Shopify, it meant rethinking the global Town Hall to better reach a distributed workforce, hosting the News Desk at the annual conference to bring remote employees into the room, and running external campaigns from a Tinder partnership to a global economic impact report that connected the brand to something bigger than the product.

The throughline across all of it: communications works when it respects the audience's intelligence, earns their attention, and gives them something worth reading.

See my past comms work





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