Flip the Script: Penning People-First Prose—and Videos—for Internal Comms

Nicole Vowell is a five-time Emmy award winning journalist and full-time manager of internal communications and employee engagement at University of Utah Health. Her focus is on conceptualizing, writing, producing, and publishing compelling multimedia visual content for the university’s intranet news site—which reaches more than 24k employees.  Nicole is also the  co-founder of the Marketing and Communications Department’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee where she works to strategically educate her department on EDI related topics, and promote inclusivity, and equity in all content. In her “time off” she also owns and operates her own company, We Thrive Media, which offers video/visual storytelling consulting, writing, production, talent and other media services. Previously she served as the interim director of public affairs and communications at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC and was a national news correspondent for E.W. Scripps News, as well as a news reporter for various local TV stations across the country.

Rekha joined Life Fitness, the global leader in commercial fitness equipment, in 2018. In her role at Life Fitness, she is a collaborator, a tactician, a problem-solver, a storyteller, a champion of the employee voice and a resource for executive communications. She believes that employees should have access to the information they need to understand the business and be successful in their roles. Rekha lives and works by a motto she remembers from an old ad campaign, “Never let ‘em see you sweat." Before returning to the communications field, Rekha took a nine-year detour as a high school English teacher, where she learned as many life lessons as she taught. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Drake University and a master’s degree in teaching from National Louis University.