Pro Rhetoric

25/09/2025

NEXT MONTH, communicators for the leaders of institutions around the world will gather to contend together, with political division, social confusion and technological disruption.

Not you?

Seats are dwindling.

Register today.

(PSA members get 25% off)

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09/09/2025

YOU CAN'T DO THIS ALONE.

Your peers in higher-ed leadership communications will gather with some of the field's leading lights--to take stock, share ideas and work together to face higher ed's challenges together.

Participants will:

• Forge a new leadership communication philosophy for these fraught times.

• Gather the new leadership comms skills and techniques you need now.

• Make collegial connections that will sustain you throughout these next crucial years of your career.

Convened by the Higher Education Leadership Communication Council.

Led by leadership communicators from Colgate University, the University of Florida, Florida A&M, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Wesleyan University, Williams College and more.

And peopled by you and your passionate peers, determined to create higher-ed leadership communications that meet this moment.

Huddle with your higher-ed colleagues to meet this moment and prepare for the future—together.

08/09/2025

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY for this career-crucial webinar. PSA members get 25% off.

AboutAgendaDetailsFacultyRegister Speechwriters and executive communicators have mixed feelings about artificial intelligence, and varying approaches to ado ...

20/08/2025

THE WORLD'S LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION COMMUNITY GATHERS for candid conversation, strategic planning and much-needed inspiration, in one of the most difficult moments in all our careers.

Our leaders have never needed us more. We've never needed each other more.

Come.

(PSA members get 25% off)

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12/08/2025

REGISTER YOURSELF, REGISTER YOUR TEAM, for the webinar that's going to get everyone in leadership communication up to speed, all at once.

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22/07/2025

"I DON'T WANT TO BE A DU***SS."

That was the answer one newly minted military speechwriter gave when asked why she was taking Military Speechwriting Training.

If most people fall into speechwriting, military speechwriters are thrown--often with little or no communication training.

Our teachers understand that: Sue Ross and Rosemary King worked their way to the highest levels of Pentagon speechwriting, and in this course they teach novice military scribes everything they know (and, everything they wish they'd known when they, too, were new).

This course has conferred speechwriting know-how and communication confidence to hundreds of military scribes.

It starts next month.

Registration deadline is August 1.

Register now, and forward to a colleague.

AboutAgendaFacultyDetailsRegister NEW COMPETENCE. NEW COLLEAGUES. NEW CONFIDENCE. You’ve had tough assignments before. But nothing like this. Now you’re tas ...

22/07/2025

REGISTER BY MIDNIGHT FRIDAY to save hundreds and secure your slot at one World Conference you cannot miss. (PSA members get an additional 25% off)

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17/07/2025

SMARTER. FASTER. BETTER. *STILL YOU*.

That’s what speechwriting teacher Brent Kerrigan and a host of AI-savvy exec comms pros will help you become.

Register yourself, register your whole team.

This is one workshop none of us can afford to miss.

(PSA members get 25% off)

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15/07/2025

THIS NEW BOOK "EQUIPS READERS TO SPOT THE SAME TRICKS" that evil dictators used in their speeches. So we can do what?

https://prorhetoric.com/rhetoric-for-ill/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLjmQVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkWuaEyGcwqjEYtBxLkHNtQDMQvf1pGMZU0bDLKYfUy5HqEXAuUnVOAfsu-I_aem_Bl_9yHDWKQBumksbg-pXug

A review of The Language of Evil, by Guy Doza. (Canbury, 2025) We hear the call from time to time: If only the masses knew the tricks of speechwriters and o ...

03/07/2025

THE EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS JULY 25.

Register now and save hundreds on the most important event of a very important year for speechwriters and everyone in leadership communications. (And PSA members get an additional 25% off.)

See you there.

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17/06/2025

THIS GOES DOWN NEXT WEEK. Register yourself, register your team—and get up to speed with your exec comms peers. https://prorhetoric.com/event/executive-communication-summit/

11/06/2025

BEHOLD THE FINE WORK (and sound thinking) demonstrated by the winners of the 2025 Executive Communication Awards. All available for your review in "Standard of Excellence '25: The Best of the Executive Communication Awards." Download for free. https://prorhetoric.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/PSA-162_ECC-Awards-Booklet_cf2.pdf?nocache