Boardroom Letters

About this event

Boardroom Letters is for the people who write what the chief executive signs. Group communications directors, senior speechwriters, chiefs of staff, and the heads of strategy who quietly hold the pen at the most senior level. We will spend a day drafting and redrafting four document types, the board-paper executive summary, the chair's letter to shareholders, the all-staff note in a difficult week, and the one-point memo that has to make a single point sharply and then stop. Thirty participants, two tutors, peer critique in small groups, and a printed casebook of the strongest examples of each form from the last ten years. Drafts are confidential and stay in the room, the casebook stays with you. The workshop is taught by Padraig Whelan, formerly group communications director at two FTSE 100 companies, with editorial support from Hannah Sieghart.