Working Humans

A two-minute audio clip is all you need to clone a voice; before you know it, you are listening to yourself reciting poetry in French or asking where to find a reliable cat café in Japanese. Voice AI has the potential to give so many more of us the ability to be heard in a uniquely Human mode; voice is intimate and emotive, which is also why it is so powerful.

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Fiona Passantino is a corporate Engagement, Culture and Communication Specialist, helping leaders and teams be their best at work. She is spending much of her energies on effective AI integration, Leadership Visibility and Professional Content Creation. Fiona is a frequent speaker, trainer, facilitator and the 2023 UK Business Book Award-winning author of ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠. Her company is ⁠Executive Storylines⁠.

/imagine… an AI application that generates stunning, original art with the same ease as ChatGPT does for copy. Today’s content creators need visuals as much as they need words to improve just about every form of messaging. A brief guide to Midjourney; what it is, how to get started, and how to prompt like a pro.

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Fiona Passantino is a corporate Engagement, Culture and Communication Specialist, helping leaders and teams be their best at work. She is spending much of her energies on effective AI integration, Leadership Visibility and Professional Content Creation.

Fiona is a frequent speaker, trainer, facilitator and the 2023 UK Business Book Award-winning author of ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠. Her company is ⁠Executive Storylines⁠.

Speakers’ Pools are a great way to jump-start the process of fattening the leadership pipeline; taking very fresh voices and training them for very high-profile public speaking roles from a very early age. It’s a triple win: engagement goes up across the board, employer marketing gets a boost and it feels like a cool place to work for everyone. The CEOs are happy; one less thing to do. And the MCs? Engaged for life.

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Fiona Passantino is a corporate Engagement, Culture and Communication Specialist, helping leaders and teams be their best at work. She is spending much of her energies on effective AI integration, Leadership Visibility and Professional Content Creation. Fiona is a frequent speaker, trainer, facilitator and the 2023 UK Business Book Award-winning author of ⁠⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠⁠. Her company is ⁠⁠⁠Executive Storylines⁠⁠⁠.

Engagement Managers are often measured by how they move the needle on employee net promoter scores or attrition rates. But in fact, it’s all about the details. Conveying the feeling of being heard, seen, valued and respected in the workplace, and allowing for empowerment, inspiration and joy. Impossible-to-measure measurements for success.

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Fiona Passantino is a corporate Engagement, Culture and Communication Specialist, helping leaders and teams be their best at work. She is spending much of her energies on effective AI integration, Leadership Visibility and Professional Content Creation. Fiona is a frequent speaker, trainer, facilitator and the 2023 UK Business Book Award-winning author of ⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠. Her company is ⁠⁠Executive Storylines⁠⁠.

In the post-Covid world, we define our values as an organization, collectively. We brainstorm together, in real-time, with enormous, collaborative co-creation sessions that weave together all voices of the community, to define our culture, our rules, vision and mission. The new Town Hall: the ‘Co-CreaPalooza’. 

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Fiona Passantino is a corporate Engagement, Culture and Communication Specialist, helping leaders and teams be their best at work. She is spending much of her energies on effective AI integration, Leadership Visibility and Professional Content Creation. Fiona is a frequent speaker, trainer, facilitator and the 2023 UK Business Book Award-winning author of ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠. Her company is ⁠Executive Storylines⁠.

Future Mapping is, in many ways, the opposite of succession planning. Rather than planning for gaps in the current org chart, imagining the future state of the organisation and asking which individuals' vision, values and ideas align with that future. What tools, training and experience will she need to get there. Six ways to start.

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During the pandemic we saved time commuting, found our focus and got stuff done. Productivity levels increased 5%. When we return to the office, we’re back in traffic again, chatting with colleagues, subject to unplanned interruptions and new impromptu mini-projects. Our office days stretch well into the evening as we catch up on missed mails. Is the next step a conscious workload reduction as we return to work?

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What are the many ways of going to work in our post-Covid world? Are we scaling down our physical spaces, operating on a "Hubs-and-Spokes" Model? Are we going back to the way things were or re-investing, with a "Build it and they will come" approach? Understand the trends that are shaping our ways back to work; hybrid, remote, physical and back again.

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Hiring managers have likely worked for a company for longer than three years. If so, they were onboarded in the light, which meant being there physically, going to an office, having predecessors to shadow, a digital services department to visit on the fifth floor and the IT department to ask for help setting up on the second. Onboarding in a hybrid context means mapping hundreds of stakeholders, interests, departments in your head, in two dimensions. Seven ways to get it right when new talent has choices. 

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Fiona Passantino is a corporate Engagement, Culture and Communication Specialist, helping leaders and teams be their best at work. She is spending much of her energies on effective AI integration, Leadership Visibility and Professional Content Creation. Fiona is a frequent speaker, trainer, facilitator and the 2023 UK Business Book Award-winning author of Comic Books for Executives. Her company is Executive Storylines.

Life at work now is hybrid, and it's here to stay. We are still negotiating the expectations and rules around the physical return to the office. Our tooling landscape as well as a scarcity of talent forces us to be flexible about how we define the physical workspace; whether we are full-time in the office or fully remote and all things in between, how we form the conversation defines the overall employee experience. Understanding the Four Basic working Personas and what motivates them to come into or avoid the physical office helps us capitalize on the benefits.

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⁠Fiona Passantino⁠ is an executive leadership coach, speaker and trainer, helping professionals engage with their teams and communities and increase their visibility and impact in complex, international organizations, working with groups or individuals. Culture can be fixed, and Fiona can help. Learn more about how to bring out the best in yourself and others at work by visiting ⁠Executive Storylines⁠.

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