Employee Communication

Dr Men is a renowned expert in employee communication. Her work has been widely published in academic journals in communication, management, and public relations. In addition to over 80 articles, She has lead-authored three books, Excellence in Internal Communication Management (Business Expert Press), and Strategic Communications for Startups and Entrepreneurs in China (Routledge) and Current Trends and Issues in Internal Communication: Theory and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan). Men received over 30 top paper and research awards and recognitions from national and international communication associations and conferences. She is the 2010 recipient of the Ketchum Excellence in Public Relations Research Award from the Institute for Public Relations, a 2013 – 2014 and 2017-2018 Arthur W. Page Legacy Scholar, a 2017-2022 Plank Scholar of the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, and the 2016 recipient of the PRIDE Outstanding Journal Article Award for Outstanding Innovation, Development, and Educational Achievement in Public Relations from the National Communication Association, and the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She also received twice the Faculty Research Award from the College of Journalism and Communications and was awarded the 2021 University of Florida Term Professorship. Men was identified as the most published scholar in internal communication (1970-2019) and in social media and public relations (2006-2020) respectively, according to two systematic review articles published in Public Relations Review. Her work has been cited over 6,500 times with Google Scholar Citations h-index 39 and i10-index 56 as of August 2022.

Accredited in public relations, Men has worked internationally with Alibaba Group, Inc., Ketchum, Inc., and provided management communication consulting for various multinational corporations, startups, and non-profit organizations. She is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society and an advisory board member of the International Public Relations Research Conference (IPRRC) and the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC). She also served as Chief Research Editor for the Institute for Public Relations’ Organizational Communication Research Center (2016-2020) and on the operating committee of the Arthur W. Page Society’s Page Up (2020-2021).

Men earned her Ph.D. in Communication in 2012 from the University of Miami, and holds an M.Phil. in Communication from Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, and a B.A. in International Communication with an honours minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Zhejiang University, China.

Conilyn (Coni) Poulsen Judge, PhD is Managing Director and Principal Consultant of Eden Communication Strategies. A performance psychologist, she is internationally known for her work in change/internal communication, organisational culture, and executive presence, working primarily in the United States, Europe/U.K., and Middle East. Her research areas include leader extraversion/introversion and the use of behavioural economics in organisational change initiatives.  

Chris is a strategic communications professional with 20+ years of experience in corporate communications, driving innovative, data-driven outcomes. Through a people-focused employee engagement approach, he helps businesses drive improved operational performance. His work in collaborating with colleagues in large multi-national, primarily Fortune 500 organizations has continuously looked to translate company strategy into easy to understand messages, visual stories and engagement activities that build trust and positive company culture. During his career, Chris has worked at Deutsche Telekom (parent company T-Mobile), DHL Group, Holcim, The Adecco Group, HERE Technologies and Fresenius Medical Care, advising CEOs Management Boards on a regional, global and Group-wide basis. Chris is a U.S. citizen, but grew up in Germany, Spain and the U.S., and has lived in Germany and Switzerland for the past 25 years. 

Graduated in Work and Organisational Psychology, she boasts a full and varied range of professional experience with positions in Internal Communication, Change Management and Human Resources, always in major leading companies: Leonardo Group, Eni and TIM. Passionate about people, her challenge has always been to kept internal workforce informed and motivated, identifying potential communication opportunities. As Head of the Internal Communication at Eni, TIM and Verisure, she has been dealing with business and culture transformations, rebranding, storytelling, channel development, community management and design thinking.