This week, Jacki and Lyle are joined by the brilliant Catherine Channon. Cat is the Senior Vice President of Global Communications at Hurtigruten Expeditions, a sustainable expedition travel company, specialising in taking mindful and curious adventurers to the farthest corners of the world. She has previously been the Head of International Communications and the Vice President of Global Corporate Communications at the gaming giant EA, as well as the Director of International Integrated Communications at Warner Bros., where she headed up the International Public Relations, Community and Social Media teams and oversaw the regional press, social and influencer operations of what is one of the biggest entertainment corporations in the world. Cat has also worked for the likes of Take 2 Interactive, Blizzard Entertainment and the Eurogamer Network, and she is the leading individual fundraiser for the fantastic charity GamesAid. Cat joins Jacki and Lyle to discuss her career so far, including how she transitioned from working as a journalist for Future Publishing, notably on the Official Playstation magazine, into the PR industry and what inspired the move. She also discusses the importance of establishing relationships with external partners, before swapping stories with Jacki about their experiences with both crisis and internal communications. Lyle asks Cat about the advice she would give businesses looking to reduce the human impact of significant organisational changes, referring to a piece written in GamesIndustry.biz outlining the advice Cat would give to businesses in communicating through change, which Editor-in-Chief James Batchelor described as an essential read recently. There is time to discuss Jacki's recent trip to Florence, Cat's fundraising plans for 2024 including an attempt to swim the Channel, and their mutual interest in taxidermy!

For the GamesIndustry.biz article outlining Catherine's advice on communicating through change, head here: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/how-to-effectively-communicate-through-change

For more on the brilliant work Games Aid do, head to: https://www.gamesaid.org/

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Music by Lyle Fulton

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