The Piar Podcast - Interviews with Global PR & Comms leaders

Unlearn the Habits That Hold Communications Leaders Back Communications leaders used to see themselves as the conscience of their organizations. You don't hear that as much anymore. What happened? Is it a failure of individual courage, or did something structural change about the role that made conscience a liability? In this episode of The Piar Podcast, host Tan Sukhera sits down with Torod Neptu...

Decision Making For Rooms Where Everyone Disagrees Communicators are constantly put in the center of uncertainty. They find themselves in rooms where people disagree, even when they're on the same team. So what separates the leaders who navigate those rooms successfully from those who leave with nothing resolved? In this episode of The Piar Podcast, host Tan Sukhera sits down with Katherine Neebe,...

The Art of the Possible: Why More CCOs Aren't at the Table Yet The CCO role is more vital than ever. CEOs understand the importance of communications. The world is more volatile. Stakeholders are multiplying. Yet the number of executives with the formal title of Chief Communications Officer remains remarkably small. Why? And what can senior communications leaders do about it? In this episode of Th...

How do you grow from tactical executor to strategic advisor in communications? What skills separate those who stagnate from those who advance? In this episode of The Piar Podcast, host Tan Sukhera sits down with Keith Berman—a no-nonsense internal and executive communications professional whose career spans companies from 20-person startups to Fortune 10 businesses with 250,000 employees—to explor...

"Many may simply not want to learn the truth of what's happening in the PR and comms world." With that warning, host Tan Sukhera opens one of the most consequential conversations in The Piar Podcast series—a deep dive into why correlation is not causation, and how causal AI is solving the measurement problem that has plagued PR and communications for decades. Dr. Frank Buckler is an author, resear...

What separates a vendor from an indispensable partner? The ability to think like an owner. In this episode of The Piar Podcast, host Tan Sukhera sits down with Jon Amar—strategic communications consultant, former startup founder, and celebrated for his no-nonsense hot takes on the PR industry—to explore what it actually means to win in public relations. Jon brings a unique edge: he's taken a start...

Internal Communications or Internal Combustion: Mike Klein on Surviving the Big Shift AI isn't just automating work. It's accelerating it. And that acceleration is about to expose every crack in your organization's decision-making architecture. In this episode of The Piar Podcast, host Tan Sukhera sits down with Mike Klein, one of internal communications' most connected and candid voices, to unpac...

Crisis Communication Isn't Improv: Philippe Borremans on High-Stakes Decision-Making Crisis communications isn't improvising well in the moment when things go wrong. It's a high-stakes discipline where hesitation, confusion, and a poorly chosen word can cost lives, trust, and reputation. In this inaugural episode of the Piar podcast, host Tan Sukhera sits down with Philippe Borremans—one of the wo...