Leadership: your New Year's resolution with Naomi Jones and Michael Nord

The IABC EMENA Podcast

What an unbelievable year! Now is the time to sit back and enjoy our podcast with Naomi Jones and Michael Nord as they discuss modern leadership. Both bring insights from the year that was 2020 and tips into how to step up for 2021. This is a refreshing podcast for communications professionals at all levels. Michael Nord is a senior communications and transformation professional with more than 25 years of experience. Michael has covered the communications and change spectrum from strategy and implementation to tactics, creating innovative digital and social media strategies – using new and cutting-edge techniques to engage stakeholders. He is a trained facilitator and experienced in learning and development, knowledge management, public relations, and management of large and small events, on a local and international level. He has held key positions in IABC, on chapter, regional and global level, and has spoken at many events. Naomi Jones is the Communications Director, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. As Communications Director for SUEZ, Naomi has responsibility for both the communications and marketing teams for the UK and Sweden. From starting her career in agency life working in public affairs, she became a specialist in sustainability communications, crisis management and corporate communications, with experience spanning industries from retail to banking. In 2009, she became SUEZ group’s youngest ever head of department, aged 28. Naomi has been instrumental in numerous projects during her 11 years at SUEZ, including increasing SUEZ’s media share of voice in the waste management sector from fifth, to first position. In 2015, she project managed the group’s rebranding and repositioning in both the UK and Scandinavia, and has overseen the employee engagement programme resulting in the company being awarded the Sunday Times Best Companies’ ‘Best 25 Big Companies to Work For’ accolade in 2018 and again in 2020, for a predominantly operational and dispersed workforce. Naomi has co-authored the book 'Managing a Crisis: A Practical Guide' (2006, Palgrave Macmillan) and is a Chartered member of the CIPR and is a member of the CIPR’s STEM committee. We hope you enjoy our podcast, brought to you by the International Association of Business Communicators EMENA Region.