The Reputation Room brings multiple lenses to one subject: reputation.
Each episode enters from a different vantage point — AI, geopolitics, media, business, academia, executive search, crisis, culture and more — through distinctive voices who have lived and shaped these questions.
In a world reshap
What if the next frontier for communications isn't producing content faster, but seeing narratives, stakeholder reactions and crises before they fully develop? In this episode of The Reputation Room, host Javier Boix talks with Nanne Bos, Chief Communications & Brand Officer at Aegon and co-founder of the Scriptorium Initiative, a think tank "making sense of the unknown" about AI's impact on communications, brand and leadership. The conversation builds on his white paper, "Predictive Communications: From AlphaGo to Narrative Intelligence," and looks at where the profession is heading. WHAT…
Brian Besanceney has been Chief Communications Officer at two Fortune 50 companies — Walmart and Boeing — after thirteen years in government, four of them in the White House as Deputy Communications Director, and a long run at Disney. He is now Principal Advisor at Alethea, Senior Advisor at Golin, and a Partner at CommsCollectiv. He learned the trade early. His father ran a marketing and PR agency in Cincinnati, and Brian's first job was printing press releases, putting on a collared shirt and running them into newsrooms while his father circled the block. Four decades on, he describes a…
Reputation is built in small waves, not viral spikes. That is the idea I keep coming back to from this conversation with Adib Sisani, Chief Communications Officer at On, where his scope covers communications and public affairs. Adib's route into the profession was not a straight line. He was born in Germany to Iranian parents who had left Iran to study in Europe and then could not go back after the Islamic Revolution. He was raised in New York, returned to Germany for university in Heidelberg, and studied political science, English linguistics and public law — not communications, not…
Michela Ratti has built products, built brands, and rebuilt reputations — as an engineer turned communicator across P&G, eBay, Swarovski, and Ferragamo (and including a stint on the advisory side). In this episode, she joins Javier Boix to unpack what actually changes, and what stays the same, when you move a career between detergent plants, luxury fashion houses, and hypergrowth tech. Michela is half Italian, half Welsh, and speaks four languages. She trained as an engineer, graduated with honors, and spent years in R&D before crossing into communications — a path she says gave her a…
Reputation Intelligence at Machine Scale: David Benigson on Signal AI, LLMs, and the New Rules of Corporate Reputation What happens when the tools built to measure reputation start feeding the large language models that increasingly define it? In this episode of The Reputation Room, Javier Boix sits down with David Benigson, founder and CEO of Signal AI — the company he started in 2013 in his parents' garage in North London, built out of a simple, unglamorous problem: hand-curating email newsletters was slow, repetitive, and ripe for automation. More than a decade later, Signal AI serves…
Joanna Price grew up on a farm in Australia and now runs one of the broadest corporate affairs mandates in global business. As Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Heineken, she oversees government affairs, public policy, sustainable development and global communications under one roof, a structure she insisted on before she'd even accept the job. Before Heineken, she spent twenty years at Coca-Cola, where a stint in strategy and research turned into a corporate affairs career. In this conversation, Joanna traces the arc from Kellogg to Coca-Cola to Heineken, and from Hong Kong to Shanghai to…
What separates a company that's respected from one that still matters? For Gary Grates, it comes down to a single distinction that has defined his career: relevance is the new reputation. In this episode of The Reputation Room, Javier Boix sits down with Gary Grates — one of the most recognizable voices in corporate communications, an adjunct professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School, and a former senior communications leader at General Motors and Edelman. Gary has spent decades inside the rooms where reputation is won and lost, and he brings a provocative, business-first…
Some people build expertise by going deep in a single industry for thirty years. Jennifer George built hers by refusing to stand still. In this episode of The Reputation Room, I sit down with Jennifer George — until recently Senior Vice President of Communications at the Aspen Group, and the author of the CCO Dispatch, a daily newsletter now read by more than 8,000 senior communications leaders around the world. Jennifer's career has run across agency and in-house, through agriculture and water rights, beauty at Unilever, technology, wellness at Headspace, Shutterfly, and healthcare. That…
Carlota Gomez has always had the heart of an activist. An activist now leading corporate affairs for HIPRA, a Spanish biotechnology company. After a long tenure at Bayer — where she was part of the communications work around one of the most scrutinised acquisitions in recent corporate history, Bayer's takeover of Monsanto — she went back home. Back to Spain, to build and lead the corporate affairs function for a family-owned company that had decided it could no longer operate without one. For Carlota, reputation is simple in definition and hard in practice: it is the coherence between what a…
What does success look like for a Chief Corporate Affairs Officer? According to Dennis Larsen, it's when reputation stops being owned by one function — and becomes a shared accountability across the entire company. In this episode, Javier Boix sits down with Dennis Larsen, Managing Director at Linq Advisors and board member of the European Association of Communication Directors, for a conversation that is as structured as it is candid. Dennis brings a distinctly governance-driven perspective to reputation: the argument that cultural change alone isn't enough. Real shared accountability…
In this first episode of this newly created podcast, I sit down with Joao Belo, Chief Communications Officer at Danaher Corporation, for a candid conversation at the intersection of corporate affairs, business and leadership. During the conversation we touch upon multiple topics. How did he get where he is (spoiler: nothing was planned!), what a CEO or a board responds well to when it comes to reputation management, what does the title not capture about the work we do, how transparency is non-negotiable in a crisis (with caveats!), the shift in corporate affairs from art to science, AI…
About The Reputation Room
The Reputation Room brings multiple lenses to one subject: reputation.
Each episode enters from a different vantage point — AI, geopolitics, media, business, academia, executive search, crisis, culture and more — through distinctive voices who have lived and shaped these questions.
In a world reshap
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