Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 51 episodes
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'The Sway Effect', a podcast series featuring the innovators, disruptors, movers and makers that are shaping the Marketing & Communications Industry.The Sway Effect knows how to create trends, shape opinions and drive behavior. We will explore what’s now and what’s next in marketing and communications, and The Sway Effect's sweet spot -- connecting brands with industry experts, media and influentials the world over. We're not the usual cast of characters you'll find on Madison Avenue. We're authors, creators, warriors, neuroscientists, influencers, and all sorts of movers and shakers.
Unknown Host hosts The Sway Effect, a business show with 51 episodes published.
For our latest episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, is live at Appian World 2026 and sat down with Isaac Sacolick, tech influencer and regular contributor to CIO.com and InfoWorld and the President of StarC
For our latest episode, we are continuing our conversations from SXSW. Our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, caught up with Valerie Chapman, Founder and CEO of Ruth AI, the AI-powered career platform built to help cl
For our latest episode, we are live at SXSW and our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, caught up with Vox Media's Astead Herndon who is an editorial director and frequent host of outlet's Today, Explained podcast. Tie
For our first episode of 2026, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with Pete Pachal, Founder of The Media Copilot, a platform, podcast and newsletter all about how AI is changing the media. Off the back of CE
In this episode, our Founder and President Jennifer Risi chats with two of the industry's top editors - Jill Manoff, EIC at Glossy and Modern Retail and Marie Albiges, Managing Editor at Total Retail - ahead of the busy
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with Forbes' Alex Knapp, who is a senior editor covering healthcare and science, to discuss the state of healthcare in the U.S. with a focus on how AI has
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with Earned First's Founding Editor Arun Sudhaman, to discuss the continued importance of earned media, the controversial topic – #DEI – as well as all the
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, sits down with Cannes Lions' VP and Chief DEI Officer Frank Starling, live at Cannes to chat about how we - as an industry and as leaders - are going to keep div
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, sat down with Julia Herbst, Senior Editor for Fast Company's Work Life section, to discuss some observations made last month at SXSW, specifically tied to the fu
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, sits down with The Associated Press' Aimee Rinehart live at SXSW to chat about her upcoming SXSW session that looked at how AI is transforming today’s newsroom a
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with BBC's Anthony Zurcher ahead of next week's inauguration and official start of a second Trump presidency. During their chat, Jen and Anthony discuss wh
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with Axios' Kerry Flynn on the good, the bad and ugly of the recent Omnicom and IPG merger as well as who benefits from this deal and other potential M&A n
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with ABC News' Beatrice Peterson on the noticeable shift of how we consume and report the news, especially coming out of this last election, as well as wha
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with The Hill's Miranda Nazzaro on the upcoming U.S. presidential election and AI, the future of political journalism and what's on her radar post-election
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with Lola Bakare on the DEI cutbacks that are dominating the headlines, winners and losers and what brands can do right now to bring DEI and responsible ma
In this episode, our Founder and President Jennifer Risi chats with Jabari on his experiences this past year leading ForbesBLK, what he is hearing across the business community today and expected impact of the upcoming e
In this episode, our Founder and President Jennifer Risi chats with Antonia at Cannes Lions on take aways from this year's festival, how AI is disrupting the PR game, and how Nextdoor's generative AI tool is benefiting l
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, sat down with Alexis live at SXSW to discuss how to empower women leaders, what it means to be an inclusive leader, the changing landscape of media and why purpo
In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, sits down with Eleanor live at SXSW to about the increasing importance of the communications function, how PR leaders are incorporating AI into their workflows,
In the latest episode, Founder and President Jennifer Risi caught up with Aisha Counts, tech reporter at Bloomberg News, who covers the latest in social media and Big Tech. Jen and Aisha discuss the recent Super Bowl, wh
Astead Herndon
political journalist and host of the podcast “America, Actually” · The New York Times
1 appearance on this show
Kimberly Seals Allers
award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker · IRTH App
2 appearances on this show
Rohit Bhargava
Wall Street Journal bestselling author · Non-Obvious Company
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Rod Berger
organizational psychologist, bestselling author, master storyteller
1 appearance on this show
Shannon Miller
Creative & Inclusion Editor · CFAY FFSC Relocation Program
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Kahn
Associate Director of Expertise and Strategic Design · Understood.org
1 appearance on this show
Kat Gordon
Founder · 3% Movement
1 appearance on this show
Anthony Zurcher
BBC News
1 appearance on this show
Jabari Young
Forbes
1 appearance on this show
Antonia Gray
Nextdoor
1 appearance on this show
Kathy Baird
The Washington Post
1 appearance on this show
Resh Sidhu
Snap Inc. / Arcadia Creative Studio
1 appearance on this show
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