The Communication Architect

With the social distancing mandates of the COVID-19 crisis, many of our organizations are living in a "new normal" that includes limited or nonexistent face-to-face time. How do we maintain relational closeness from a social distance? How do we help our colleagues, employees, and friends navigate the new virtual frontiers of the marketplace while still helping them feel supported, valued...

With the exponential increase of fear pervading our nation right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, we have an opportunity as leaders and communicators to help bring mental and emotional balance to those around us. Learn how fear impacts our brains, our beliefs, and our behavior, and learn how you can use your communication skills to help those in your realm of influence live proactively but pea...

In this episode, Dr. Lisa Dunne unpacks the building blocks of community and how these impact not only our organizational communication but also our organizational health. Learn simple strategies for creating internal and external margin that will take your strategic communication to the next level. Unlock the barriers holding your teams back from reaching their full organizational communication p...

In this week's episode of The Communication Architect, Dr. Lisa Dunne explains the three-point process of affirming, disclosing, and confronting. Good leaders don't avoid conflict; they manage it. Conflict can foster incredible growth, trust, and transformation -- if we steward it correctly. Learn the steps to using your words as agents of truth and healing in the organizational realm, a...

In Season 2 of The Communication Architect, Dr. Dunne unpacks the core competencies for developing trust, value, and camaraderie in the workplace. Episode 6 assesses the root of friction and frustration in today's organizations, from high turnover rates to lack of recognition to staggering rates of disengagement. Can we break the cycle of dysfunction in modern workplace communication? Yes! As...

In this podcast, Dr. Lisa Dunne offers a social science perspective on the concept of relational development. Drawing from studies like Knapp's Stages of Relational Development and modern neuroscience research on the bonding hormone, oxytocin, Dr. Dunne shows how we can take simple, practical steps toward building a healthy relational base -- and why this type of community is vital to our emo...

In this episode, Part 2 of The Friendship Formula, Dr. Dunne continues to unpack the practical and theoretical social science research on relational development. Many of us try to find our worth, value, identity, and purpose in external identities, but the health of our interpersonal relationships really depend on facing an alternate truth: we will never be able to maintain healthy relationships w...

I'm Dr. Lisa Dunne, and thanks for joining me here on The Communication Architect! In Episode 2, The War of Words, we address some of the foundational principles of the power of the spoken word. Some of the negative communication we receive is unintentional -- we pick up on a casual or accidental phrase and allow it to take root. Sometimes, though, those words are intended messengers of ill w...

I'm Dr. Lisa Dunne, and I'm so glad you've joined us today on The Communication Architect! In Episode 3, Cultivating Peace in the Age of Anxiety, we are talking about a topic that is near to my heart. I've worked with the next generation for almost two decades, and in case you haven't heard about the ongoing struggles, mental health has reached a crisis point in the two yo...

Hi, and welcome to The Communication Architect! I'm Dr. Lisa Dunne, and for the last two decades, I've had the privilege of working with thousands of people from all generations, helping them develop effective communication strategies. I grew up in a home that didn't model effective communication, relational resilience, or emotional health, but through my doctoral studies, I discove...