Communicating Change with Transparency

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23 Jul

Communicating Change with Transparency

Communicating Change with Transparency

Thursday, July 23, 2026 (12:00 AM to 11:59 PM)
2 PDCs
Provider: University of Wisconsin E-Business Consortium
Course Name: Communicating Change with Transparency

Speaker: Jennifer Anderson, UWEBC Change Leadership Practice Director in Residence
Program Type: Seminar/Workshop
Registration URL: https://uwebc.wisc.edu/uwebc-events/d482ec59-1143-f111-8081-005056b0b30d/
Communicating Change with Transparency, Madison, Wisconsin
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By the end of this session, participants will be able to: Engage leaders as active champions of change communication using coaching skills and trust-building tactics. Acknowledge change fatigue, AI anxiety, and employee emotions with honesty and empathy. Apply communication strategies, including AI-integrated approaches, that drive measurable trust and engagement. Improve message consistency and alignment across multiple transformation initiatives. Use storytelling and audience segmentation to make communications more impactful across employee levels.

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Change has become continuous, and the way leaders communicate through it plays a critical role in whether employees remain engaged or disengage. This virtual session brings together HR, communications, and change management practitioners to exchange practical approaches for open, ongoing, and empathetic communication during frequent change cycles. The discussion will focus on leader engagement, empathetic communication, strategy and measurement, and storytelling with audience-tailored messaging. Participants will explore how to equip leaders to move from telling and managing to coaching, how to address change fatigue and AI-related uncertainty, how to measure whether communication is building trust and engagement, and how to make change messages more human and relevant for frontline employees, managers, and executives. Participants will leave with practical strategies and actionable ideas they can apply within their own organizations.

Communicating Change with Transparency
Communicating Change with Transparency
601 University Ave
Madison, WI 53715-1035

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