Past Lectures
Reimagining Our Profession, Public Relations for a Complex World
November 10, 2011 – Richard Edelman, President & CEO of Edelman, the world’s largest independent public relations firm, delivered the Institute’s 50th Distinguished Lecture. Edelman has extensive experience in marketing and reputation and has counseled Egypt, Israel and Mexico on economic development. Edelman’s research on NGOs, business, government and media in the Edelman Trust Barometer has been cited by publications such as The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. Edelman’s blog, 6 A.M., which launched in September 2004, receives more than 2,000 visitors a day. Edelman serves on the Board of Directors of the Ad ...
Truth, Trust and Reputational Intelligence
November 11, 2010 – Bill Margaritis, Senior Vice President, Global Communications and Investor Relations of FedEx Corporation, delivered the 50th Institute for Public Relations Distinguished Lecture in New York City. Robert Grupp, IPR President and CEO (right), and Matt Gonring, Co-Chair of the IPR Board of Trustees (center), congratulate Bill Margaritis of FedEx Corporation, who delivered the IPR 2010 Distinguished Lecture.
Toward a New Profession: Brand, Constituency and Eminence on the Global Commons
Nov. 4, 2009 • Yale Club • 50 Vanderbilt Ave. New York City Jon Iwata, Senior Vice President at IBM, delivered the Institute for Public Relations 2009 Distinguished Lecture to an audience of 300 leaders in public relations and corporate communications gathered in New York City. Institute Co-chair Mike Fernandez introduced Iwata, calling him “an innovator, a thought leader, and very humble and stand up guy. In today’s world, Jon is the standard; and we are very proud and pleased to have Jon deliver this year’s lecture, and to hear his vision of ...
Public Relations: The Story Behind a Remarkable Renaissance
November 5, 2008 - The Yale Club New York, NY Sir Martin Sorrell founded WPP in 1985 and has been chief executive throughout its history. During that period, WPP has grown rapidly to become one of the world’s leading communications services groups. WPP companies offer a wide range of services to national, multinational and global clients. These include advertising, media investment management, information, insight and consultancy, public relations and public affairs, branding and identity, healthcare communications, direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing, and specialist communications. The worldwide group operates in 106 countries. Before founding WPP, Sir Martin ...
Putting It on the Line
November 8, 2007 - The Yale Club New York, NY Beth Comstock, president, NBC Universal Integrated Media, oversees television ad sales and leads the Digital Media team, driving the company’s digital strategy, business, content, and distribution efforts. In addition, she also leads both the marketing and research teams and is focused on deepening connections with consumers. Prior, Comstock served as General Electric’s chief marketing officer. In that role, she oversaw marketing and sales development and was responsible for cross-business growth programs, including GE’s ecomagination environmental effort and the Imagination Breakthrough innovation initiative. Comstock also led GE’s ...
After 50 Years: The Value and Values of Public Relations
November 9, 2006 - The Yale Club New York, NY This year’s Distinguished Lecture is Jim Grunig, professor emeritus of communication at the University of Maryland, where he served on the faculty beginning in 1969 after earning his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. Widely recognized as one of the world’s leading public relations scholars and theorists, he has edited, authored or co-authored five books and more than 200 book chapters, journal articles, reports and papers. In the 1980s, Dr. Grunig directed the IABC Research Foundation’s Excellence project, universally regarded as the most significant original research ...
Sustaining Trust In Today’s Business Environment: The Singular Character of Public Relations
October 11, 2006 - Reform Club London, UK Willard D. “Bill” Nielsen is past chairman of the Institute for Public Relations. He retired in 2004 as corporate vice president-public affairs and corporate communications for Johnson & Johnson. Nielsen joined Johnson & Johnson in 1988, following an 18-year career as a public relations agency consultant, first with Carl Byoir & Associates and then Hill and Knowlton. His professional accomplishments include leadership of a 10-year, nationwide child injury prevention campaign that reduced the rate of unintended injury and death by nearly 30 percent. He served two terms as president ...
The Character of Public Relations at 2005
November 10, 2005 - Yale Club New York, NY Willard D. “Bill” Nielsen is past chairman of the Institute for Public Relations. He retired last year as corporate vice president-public affairs and corporate communications for Johnson & Johnson. Nielsen joined Johnson & Johnson in 1988, following an 18-year career as a public relations agency consultant, first with Carl Byoir & Associates and then Hill and Knowlton. His professional accomplishments include leadership of a 10-year, nationwide child injury prevention campaign that reduced the rate of unintended injury and death by nearly 30 percent. He served two terms ...
Has Public Relations Become Too Important To Leave To The Public Relations Professionals?
October 20, 2004 - One Whitehall Place Westminster, London Described by PRWEEK as the 20th Century’s “Most Influential Public Relations Professional,” Harold Burson, founder and CEO of Burson-Marsteller, will trace the evolutionary role of public relations as a corporate discipline and reinforce a concept articulated more than a half century ago by AT&T’s Arthur Page, i.e., that public relations must be practiced not only by the public relations department but also by every employee who interfaces with a corporate stakeholder. This is Harold’s second Distinguished Lecture for the Institute. He was awarded the Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Medal ...
Thirty Years in the Same Job, and What Do I Know?
November 10, 2004 - Union League Club New York, NY Named CEO of Fleishman-Hillard in March 1974, Mr. Graham’s career has been extraordinary for more than his ability to hold a job in a famously fluid industry. He also has led the firm’s remarkable growth from a single office with a couple dozen employees to a worldwide powerhouse with more than 2,000 professionals in 22 countries. So what has he learned that the rest of us should know about our own professional culture and the science beneath the art of public relations? Sponsored in part by:
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