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Igniting communications that inspire, engage and transform
Because you’ve defined the change and outcome you need to achieve, but success depends on people taking action.
Carbon delivers the essential element of successful initiatives – strategic communications that inspire understanding, engagement and action.
What you get when you work with Carbon and Cate Freeman:
· Decades of change and transformation communications experience
· Best practices and lessons learned from leading inside three Fortune 500 companies (Lumen Technologies, Ameriprise Financial and Comcast)
· A partner certified in change management and adept at navigating large-scale and complex challenges
· Tested solutions for equipping leaders to successfully cascade messaging and answer questions consistently
· Messaging that resonates with and inspires your audience(s)
· Clear line of sight at every stage so there are no surprises (except the good kind)

Stakes are high when large-scale changes are underway. Carbon Founder & Principal Consultant, Cate Freeman, is change management certified and applies that knowledge, along with decades of communication experience, when developing and executing comprehensive strategies aligned with your goals. Cate's experience includes large-scale AI adoption; acquisitions and integrations; organizational restructuring; changing business models, compensation plans and go-to-market strategies as well as ERP and HRIS system implementations.
Engaging your audience with clear, concise, and compelling messages across all channels requires discipline and planning. Cate works with you and your team to create, evaluate or update your communication/editorial plans to ensure alignment with your organization's top priorities. Her experience includes building and executing plans that increased companywide intranet readership by 8% in less than a year.
From town halls to special events and video productions, Cate ensures your leaders make the most of every engagement. She'll help them use storytelling to bring their message to life and connect with the target audience. Cate leans in to understand the context and goal of each engagement, the leader's unique style and voice, and identifies how best to leverage their strengths in each situation. For example, Cate served as content lead, prepping on camera interviewees, in these two videos: Network Modernization: Episode 1 and Episode 2.
Whether you're launching a wellness program, changing your 401(k) plan or offering new talent development pathways, every HR communication presents an opportunity to elevate and reinforce your employee value proposition and your total rewards package. Cate will do just that by creating and executing strategic plans and messaging that bring benefits to life for your audience and drive engagement.
Cate Freeman thrives when helping organizations successfully communicate and implement large-scale change or transformation. She focuses on engaging people in stories that elevate brands and employee value propositions. Having led communications across several industries, she has experience with most communication disciplines and channels.
When needed, Cate partners with a large network of vetted, independent experts in communications, PR, graphic design, photography, and video and event production.
Cate's experience includes leading:
· Communication functions / initiatives at three Fortune 500 companies - Lumen Technologies, Ameriprise Financial and Comcast
· Strategic communication planning and execution related to large-scale AI adoption, six acquisitions and multiple site closures
· Production of a docuseries focused on a complex telecom transformation
· A project team charged with designing, developing and launching a new intranet
· Employee engagement survey processes and post-survey action planning
· Agenda planning, key message development and presentation support for town halls and leadership meetings
· HR communications related to compensation, total rewards, employee engagement, benefits, performance management, talent development, learning and development, RIFs and more
See Cate’s LinkedIn profile.

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