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Sep 2023
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The PR Week: 9.14.2023 - Geoff Curtis, H...

Steve Barrett, PRWeek
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Horizon Therapeutics’ Geoff Curtis has a wide range of responsibilities, including corporate affairs, strategy, audience engagement and innovation while overseeing more than 50 staffers in corporate comms, brand, government affairs, corporate social responsibility and more.

And he built it all from a team of one person. Curtis talks about that process on the latest edition of The PR Week, as well as strategies for mentorship, the importance of internal communications and much more. 

Plus, cohost and PRWeek senior reporter Jess Ruderman talks about the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, including the 

2023 edition of PRWeek’s Hall of Fame, acquisitions by ICR and Omnicom PR Group and new roles for Stacey Jones and Brandee Barker.

 

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