If You Build it, They Will Come: Intranets and Other Tech to Foster Culture

Debra Helwig is the Senior Internal Communications Manager for K·Coe Isom, a Top 100 Accounting & Consulting firm serving the global food and agriculture industry. In her role, Debra’s goal is to increase & inspire positive engagement among team members, connecting people for greater effectiveness. Debra reinforces the firm’s concept of “onefirmedness” by acting as internal brand ambassador, telling firm and team members’ stories, promoting successes, and encouraging multi-directional communications. She also serves as a process breaker, partnering with executive leadership in the successful development and communication of operations strategies and key initiatives such as employer branding, diversity & inclusion, and firm innovation.  In addition to providing strategic communications leadership, Debra manages the day-to-day execution of all internal communications and employee engagement activities, and she also oversees the firm’s intranet, company store, and internal corporate events.

Billy Volpone is a senior sales engineer at LumApps. Prior to joining LumApps in 2020, Volpone spent most of his entire professional career helping to deploy collaborative intranets and digital workplaces after joining Jive Software in 2007. During his tenure in the enterprise community space, Volpone has leaned heavily on his expertise in outcome driven strategy and collaboration best practices to help deploy modern employee intranets and customer communities across a wide variety of verticals and company sizes.

Suzie Robinson is a digital workplace consultant at ClearBox Consulting and has responsibility for its suite of review reports. She has worked with intranets for 15 years and has practical experience with all aspects of an intranet lifecycle, from research to implementation, ongoing governance and overall strategy. Robinson’s experience has grown out of the roots of internal communication, so she has a focus on employee experience and engagement, plus strong content.