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The Sustainability Communicator
The podcast exploring the intersection of corporate sustainability and storytelling.
The Sustainability Communicator explores the intersection of corporate sustainability and storytelling. Your host, Mike Hower, is a sustainability communication nerd with more than fifteen years of experience on both sides of the podium — as a journalist for media outlets like GreenBiz and a communication strategist for major global companies.
During each episode, we explore interesting sustainability communication challenges, risks and opportunities facing folks in the business community and beyond. If you’re ready to talk your walk, then you’ve come to the right place.
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Ep. 11: How Neiman Marcus makes sustainability fashionable
In this episode, Mike speaks with Ali Mize, an ESG and sustainability expert to learn more about Neiman Marcus Group’s approach to sustainability storytelling, and how companies can improve sustainability communication overall.
Ep. 5: Navigating the uncertainties of sustainability storytelling, with Allison’s Whitney Dailey
In this episode, Mike brings in the expertise of a fellow sustainability communications expert — Whitney Dailey, Executive Vice President, Purpose at the global public relations firm Allison Worldwide — to better understand how companies can navigate sustainability storytelling in 2024.
Ep. 4: The fundamentals of effective sustainability writing
In this episode, Mike discusses key learnings from over a decade as a writer and editor in the corporate sustainability space that form the fundamentals of effective sustainability writing.
Ep. 3: Why your sustainability story sucks
In this episode, Mike explains common reasons why businesses struggle to tell good sustainability stories - and how to do better.
Ep. 2: 2024 sustainability communication trends
In this episode, Mike takes a crack at some key sustainability communication trends to keep an eye on in 2024.
Ep. 1: Rethinking the role of sustainability communicators
In this inaugural episode of The Sustainability Communicator, Mike discusses how the increased risks and rewards of bad and good sustainability communication, respectively, are calling for a new type of sustainability communications professional capable of translating between marketing and sustainability departments.