by Nicole Maury | May 20, 2013 | Chapter News, Events, Events - Los Angeles, News, Professional Development
Standing in a circle for an improv exercise, pointing to a peer across from you, and waiting for a “Yes” from them before walking across the circle to take his or her place doesn’t take a lot of brains. Yet it did for me, because I wanted the...
by Nicole Maury | May 10, 2013 | News
After Mike Spasoff and I attended Leadership Institute in February and welcomed new board members, we’ve spearheaded our new board’s strategic planning for 2013-2016 to refresh and align with IABC headquarters’ 21st century vision of IABC as a global flagship brand....
by Nicole Maury | May 10, 2013 | Events, Events - Los Angeles, Networking, News
If Los Angeles is the land of film-esque lighting, cool props and walking into different worlds, then Big Foot West proved to be a welcome departure from florescent-lit cubicles of the work-a-day world. Over cocktails, filling appetizers and under dozens of elk...
by Nicole Maury | Dec 16, 2012 | News
On December 4th, 2012, IABC-LA joined the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA), the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and the California Chicano News Media Association: Latino Journalists of California (CCNMA) for a combined festive, loud and lively...
by Nicole Maury | Nov 19, 2012 | Chapter News, Corporate Communications, Employee Communication, Events, Events - Los Angeles, Marketing, Networking, News, PR, Professional Development, Social Media, Writing
One of my favorite laugh-out-loud commercials of all time is when a then-unknown Jane Lynch (of “Glee” fame) hammers a microchip into the forehead of a new customer at Washington Mutual’s competing bank. A few moments later Jane’s colleague tries to...
