Episode 33 – IC’s founding father

The goal of this podcast is to bring you meaningful, in-depth conversations with people who are helping to shape the world of internal communication: practitioners, leaders, authors, creatives, and consultants. People like Shel Holtz, Dr Kevin Ruck, Bill Quirke, Rachel Miller, Russell Grossman, Liam Fitzpatrick and Sue Dewhurst. When Katie Macaulay asked many of these amazing people who inspired their thinking, one name kept coming up: Roger D’Aprix. He can be rightly described as the pioneer in the field of employee communication. This is reflected in the titles of some of the 10 books he’s written on the subject of communication, leadership and culture: Struggle for Identity: The Silent Revolution Against Corporate Conformity (1972); In Search of a Corporate Soul (1978); Communicating For Change (1996); The Credible Company: Leadership Communication Strategies for a Sceptical Workforce (2008); Bosses: True Stories of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2020). Roger has devoted his career to helping make organisations become more human, so they, in turn, can get the very best out of their people. He has played a pivotal role in establishing a truly strategic role for internal communication as the function that creates meaning for people. But despite his incredibly impressive body of work, and a highly successful consulting career, this conversation reveals an incredibly modest and humble man. In it, Roger reflects on a career that started in the late 1950s and runs to the present day.