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The role of communication management in the light of the current societal challenges

Wednesday

October

Starts:09:00, 26 October 2022
Ends:11:00, 26 October 2022
Location:Hybrid / A2-075
Contact:nora@bi.no (#NORA)

Societal challenges and crises, such as raising energy prices, climate change, wars, and the wake of the pandemic, have substantially changed the organizational reality and will continue to do so. Communication managers are key actors in those challenging times, managing the stakeholders expectations and helping to make sense of the changing environment. In this NORA breakfast seminar the panel discuss learnings from pandemic research from researchers in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, as well as current communication strategies in Norwegian corporations.

Speakers

Winni Johansen

Winni Johansen (Ph.D.) is a professor of Corporate Communication in the Department of Management, at Aarhus University, and adjunct professor at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo.

Her research interests include crisis management and crisis communication, social media, crisis consulting, internal crisis communication, environmental communication and strategic communication in private and public organizations. She is the co-editor of Organizational Crisis Communication: A Multivocal, Approach (Sage, 2017), International Encyclopedia of Strategic Communication (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), Crisis Communication (Handbook) (Mouton de Gruyter, 2020), and has published more than 85 scholarly articles or book chapters. Together with Finn Frandsen, she was awarded the KOM’Prisen 2019 by by the Danish Union of Journalists (Media & Communication) and Kforum (Danish community for communication professionals) for their contributions to the professionalization of corporate communication in education and business in Denmark, and for their internationally renowned crisis communication research.

Mona Solvoll

Mona Solvoll is associate professor of communication at BI Norwegian Business School. Solvoll received her Ph.D. degree in organisational theory in 2009 from BI Norwegian Business School. Prior to her Ph.D. Solvoll studied media and communication at the University of Oslo.

At BI Norwegian School of Management Solvoll teaches classes in digital communication, media economy and strategic media planning at various levels. She is the AD for bachelor’s in digital communication and marketing.

Solvoll was the research leader of the project Digitization and Diversity in the Media Sector. Her research focus was digital business models in local newspapers. She is now the project leader of the project Media Innovation During the Corona Crisis (MICC).

Cathrine Torp

Cathrine Torp is Director of Communication and Strategy at Revisorforeningen. Prior, she served as EVP Communications and user experience at The Research Council of Norway (RCN) and as vice president communications director for DNV GL Oil & Gas.

She has more than two decades experience from heading up communication for companies such as Statoil, Storebrand, Total Norge, and Aker before joining RCN in 2018.

Kia Haring

Kia Haring serves as Vice President Global Communications and Sustainability at Tietoevry and has a strong focus on corporate reputation, corporate culture, and sustainable development.

Kia has more than 20 years of experience in international marketing and corporate communications from tech and energy industries as well as from the agency side. Kia is a member of the board at ProCom, Finnish Association for Communications Professionals and a Nordic representative at the board of Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communications Management.

Maria Isaksson

Maria Isaksson (Ph.D.) is an associate professor in rhetoric and communication. Her research interests focus on leadership rhetoric, epideictic rhetoric, and political and organizational discourse and rhetoric.

Recent projects focus on Norwegian rhetoric during the Covid-pandemic, and on visionary rhetoric of Norwegian new year addresses. Maria earned her PhD at Åbo Akademi University, Finland; she is also Docent at Åbo Akademi University. She has published in journals such as: Corporate Communications: An International Journal, International Journal of Public Sector Management, and Journal of Communication Management.

Suzanne van Gils

Suzanne van Gils (Ph.D.) is an associate professor in management communication and ethics. Her research interests focus on (im)moral behavior in organizations, identity processes, and leader-employee interactions.

Recent projects focus among others on ethical leadership communication and meaningful work. Before joining BI in 2019, Suzanne has worked as an assistant professor at Maastricht University, and as a post-doctoral research fellow at Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg. She earned her PhD at Rotterdam School of Management. Suzanne has published in top tier journals such as Human Relations, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Business ethics.

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