Eric W. - Internal/Corporate Communication

With a track record as a passionate and influential thought professional, Eric excels at delivering strategic guidance in alignment with organization’s mission, generating quality content/material, enhancing operational efficiency, and implementing communications plans. He has extensive expertise in supporting strategy, planning and execution of employee/internal communications, coordinating programs/activities across teams, and maintaining a communications calendar with focus on engaging employees. Eric delivers service that goes beyond organizational expectations to create win-win scenarios for everyone involved. He demonstrates keen attention to detail and the ability to synthesize goals into high-quality communications messages.

Top Attributes

• Internal/Corporate Communication
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Strategic Planning and Execution
• Content Development
• Project Management
• Teambuilding and Leadership

Top Accomplishments

• Executive Communications: Drafted CEO recap emails for major holiday sales. Eric worked with clients in various departments to gather relevant data and information about the sale, along with standout associate stories to share. He also helped facilitate executive review before sending.
• Strategic Communications: Supported employee communications efforts during all aspects of COVID-19 pandemic, including dedicated intranet site, emails, articles, employee app content, documents and various other communications.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Eric worked with IT to concept, design, build and launch the company intranet and corporate email distribution system.
• Emergency Communications: Eric was instrumental in emergency internal communications during power restoration efforts following numerous natural disasters, including hurricanes (Ike 2008, Harvey 2017, Laura 2021), storms, winter weather (Winter Storm Uri 2021), and emergency situations.
• Production and Execution: Eric has developed and assembled numerous intranet websites, pages and stories. He has laid out, reviewed and sent three newsletters weekly to different audiences (field leadership, field associates and corporate associates). Eric has also drafted and edited featured jobs and employee profiles, e-news articles and internal/external communications.