“From CIA to CEO, Unconventional Life Lessons for Thinking Bigger, Leading Better and Being Bolder,” is Rupal Patel’s book to move people in mind and actions from where they might feel stuck to the even higher places in their careers where they feel they can succeed.

The book is a helper for people, especially women, for thinking bigger about what is possible, leading their lives in ways that feel better or more authentic and being bolder with what they make happen for themselves.

Sylvia Baffour, an EI (emotional intelligence) motivational speaker, executive coach and the author of “I Dare You to Care" talks with Communication Intelligence magazine about conversing with your employees about the Israel-Palestine violence and pain.

Harvard University and its president, Claudine Gay, are under duress and public relations crisis. Will Gay survive it and continue to lead the school?

Blair Huddy, founder and CEO at Hudson Davis Communications, talks with Communication Intelligence magazine about the story.

Magic Johnson's resume, high school to college to the NBA to the business world, is stuffed with surreal levels of success yet one game and one loss once created a severity of a loss of confidence and self doubt.

Communication Intelligence talks about Johnson's admittance of his struggle with Eric Eng, the founder, CEO and private admissions counselor at AdmissionSight and Nikki Jain, founder and CEO at The Sprout PR.

Comprehension determines whether communication has been effective.

Barry Maher, a presenter, author and principal at Barry Maher & Associates and Sruthi Dhulipala, a publicist, media strategist and the senior PR Manager at The Right Now talk to Communication Intelligence about this topic.

Brenda Christensen, the CEO at Stellar Public Relations, talks with Communication Intelligence about Jacqueline Kennedy's letter displaying leadership that she sent to Nikita Khrushchev, the country’s Chairman of the Council of Ministers, during a time of fear of nuclear war.

Leaders have the responsibility to notice problems with the potential to become significant incidents and address them promptly and successfully before an escalated state develops.

This conversation looks at the quote, “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

Executives are no different than other people in that they should not remain silent when they need to share bad news and they should be bold in asking for help.

Matt Schnuck, CEO at Rickhouse and writer of The Inflection on LinkedIn, wrote about it on LinkedIn — and Johnny Sirpilla, former president of Camping World and Good Sam, founder of Encourage and author of “Life is Hard but I’ll be Okay,” — Jennifer Eisenreich, founder and CEO of Shift Show Communication, talk about it.

You have high performers excelling in your organization. If they are truly unselfish and other people would welcome them asserting themselves for the benefit of everyone, how do you communicate to inspire them to be more confident giving more of their talent, skills and special ability.

Armine Pogosyan and Michael Nova talk about it.

Talking to your valued people as they are departing the company makes sense yet may not be as helpful as conversing with them before they consider looking elsewhere and leave.

Tonicia Freeman-Foster, Ed.D., a leadership and organizational culture expert and co-founder of LEIDOSWEL (Kusudi Consulting Group) and Luke Lintz, founder and CEO of HighKey Enterprises, a digital branding company, talk about the intelligence of conducting “stay” interviews and three useful, probing questions.

The egregious errors of competitive communication and bulldozing people are risky and costly, says Annetta Wilson, president of Annetta Wilson Media Training & Success Coaching.

Diane DiResta, a communications strategist, the founder of DiResta Communications, Inc. — and the author of “Knockout Presentations,” talks about the dangers of it, what needs to happen to replace that communication with smarter behavior and what it will take to successfully accomplish it.

A.I. in Healthcare, is blind trust the smart idea? Is the technology ready to be fully trusted?

Liudmila Schafer, an oncologist, international speaker and the leader at The Doctor Connect Professional Corporation, talks to Communication Intelligence about it all.

She also goes into the exciting possibilities with AI in healthcare and the areas to be concerned about and improved.

Chris Kocek, author of “Any Insights Yet? Connect the Dots. Create New Categories. Transform Your Business," talks in Communication Intelligence about the power of questions -- better ones -- to gain the necessary insights to generate positive movement in the workplace, business and your career.

Coming to the illuminated yet painful, accurate conclusion that we have made a significant error or series of them doesn't have to be an entirely miserable experience.

The pain can be mitigated by realizing that human error is inevitable and that we can benefit in some meaningful way by extracting the benefit from error, says Alexandra Kharazi, MD.

Robert G. Marbut Jr. talks in this Communication Intelligence conversation about the accurate and shocking numbers about the number of people who are homeless, why the problem is not improving and what needs to happen.