Framework Subtopic: Change Communications

In this short from Ragan’s AI Horizon’s Conference, Ragan’s Center for AI Strategy Advisor Martin Waxman goes through the steps communicators must take to stand up an effective AI agent.

Chapter 3: What’s Next Future Communicator’s Agile Playbook: Overcoming Challenges, Crises and Uncertainty Now that you know how to plan and execute a stellar internal comms program, get ready for the unexpected! This session provides the mindset and methods you need to become an agile strategist—so you can lead change initiatives and pivot no matter Chapter 3 – Future Communicator’s Agile Playbook: Overcoming Challenges, Crises and Uncertainty

This single, intermediate-level module curates highlights from Ragan’s 2025 Future of Communications Conference that explore how the future of comms is skills-based, the future of culture relies on co-creation and community, and the future of AI-driven comms hinges on trust and collaboration. It features leaders from Microsoft, CVS Health, MGM Resorts International and more.

In this single, intermediate-level module, Peppercomm SVP Danielle Montana and Simon Fitzgerald, Global General Manager or Corporate and Regional Communications at Xero explore the strategic role of communicators in mergers and acquisitions with a focus on how comms can act as central drivers of business outcomes, coordinating across legal, IR and corporate comms to prepare Case Study: An Integrated, Global Approach to M&A Communications

This single, advanced-level module from Ragan’s Justin Joffe goes beyond basic principles to give communications leaders tactics and strategies to sense early signals of risk, coordinate mitigation practices across functions, and lead through uncertainty.

In this Short from Ragan’s 2025 Future of Communications Conference, MGM Resorts International’s Lauren Stephens explains how effective change management is aided by comms’ ability to wrangle different functional stakeholders across the organization and implement the appropriate training.

In today’s volatile landscape—where M&A shake-ups, ESG/CSR mandates and even language crackdowns collide—communicators are on the front lines of culture and change. Employees still crave belonging and clarity, but the way we deliver it has to evolve. In this candid panel, leaders share how they’ve anchored culture amid mergers, restructurings, RTO drives and AI disruption—while Culture Under Fire: Mastering Change Comms Amid Pullbacks and Transformation

RTO mandates, DEI rollbacks, tariff ripples, CEO shakeups, AI job fears and employee activism continue to put internal and external stakeholders on edge. And when internal, external and policy messages around these issues diverge, trust (and share price) wobbles. Join four senior comms pros who will unpack the strategies their orgs and others are using Change Confessionals: RTO, Rollbacks, Activism and the Skills to Adjust