6 lessons from the FBI’s chief speechwriter

How should a speechwriter or executive communicator deal with a change at the helm, bringing new priorities and differences in style?

What do you do if a hands-on leader in love with a red editing pen is replaced by one who’s skeptical about the entire concept of speechwriting?

In a Ragan Training session that was a hit at the 2018 Speechwriters and Executive Communicators Conference in Washington, FBI Chief Speechwriter Adrianne Goldsmith Romero offers lessons in successfully moving forward even as the ground shifts beneath one’s feet.

In “Surviving a Leadership Transition: Five Ways to Thrive When the World Shifts,” Goldsmith Romero describes writing for three FBI directors—four, if you count an acting director.

Now wordsmithing for Christopher Wray, she also wrote for FBI chiefs James Comey and Robert Mueller, who is currently special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 election.