The Reputation Room

Joanna Price grew up on a farm in Australia and now runs one of the broadest corporate affairs mandates in global business. As Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Heineken, she oversees government affairs, public policy, sustainable development and global communications under one roof, a structure she insisted on before she'd even accept the job. Before Heineken, she spent twenty years at Coca-...

What separates a company that's respected from one that still matters? For Gary Grates, it comes down to a single distinction that has defined his career: relevance is the new reputation. In this episode of The Reputation Room, Javier Boix sits down with Gary Grates — one of the most recognizable voices in corporate communications, an adjunct professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School, and...

Some people build expertise by going deep in a single industry for thirty years. Jennifer George built hers by refusing to stand still. In this episode of The Reputation Room, I sit down with Jennifer George — until recently Senior Vice President of Communications at the Aspen Group, and the author of the CCO Dispatch, a daily newsletter now read by more than 8,000 senior communications leaders ar...

Carlota Gomez has always had the heart of an activist. An activist now leading corporate affairs for HIPRA, a Spanish biotechnology company. After a long tenure at Bayer — where she was part of the communications work around one of the most scrutinised acquisitions in recent corporate history, Bayer's takeover of Monsanto — she went back home. Back to Spain, to build and lead the corporate affairs...

What does success look like for a Chief Corporate Affairs Officer? According to Dennis Larsen, it's when reputation stops being owned by one function — and becomes a shared accountability across the entire company. In this episode, Javier Boix sits down with Dennis Larsen, Managing Director at Linq Advisors and board member of the European Association of Communication Directors, for a conversation...

In this first episode of this newly created podcast, I sit down with Joao Belo, Chief Communications Officer at Danaher Corporation, for a candid conversation at the intersection of corporate affairs, business and leadership. During the conversation we touch upon multiple topics. How did he get where he is (spoiler: nothing was planned!), what a CEO or a board responds well to when it comes to rep...