ITK Radio | Stephen Majors | Communicating Biotechnology

On this episode of ITK Radio, a conversation with Stephen Majors.

Stephen is the Global Head of Communications at the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine.

Stephen advocates for consistent regulatory and market access policies globally to ensure that patients can access cutting-edge biotechnology treatments for various conditions.

He leverages his expertise in healthcare, public policy, and geopolitics, and experience in journalism and the media, to conduct effective and integrated public affairs campaigns for the biotechnology sector across state, national, and international geographies.

You can find Stephen on LinkedIn here.

 
 
 

Insights + Ideas:

+ What is it like to be a journalist?

+ Helping a journalist: "To be brief and be to the point."

+ How to best understand a reporter's beat or interests

+ Making the leap from being a journalist to being a public policy healthcare advocate

+ Advice on staying on top of the recent developments in public policy healthcare advocate

+ Read: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein

+ The benefit of not knowing when communicating a topic

+ Tactics for successful media training

+ Vizualing an audience to develop communications

+ How biz dev and B2B communications have helped his career

+ Thinking about audiences to achieve communications objectives

+ How media fragmentation is impacting communications objectives

+ How to make sure your communications is responsive and not always reactive

+ What it is like to handle communications for a global membership advocacy organization

Ructions | Detroit calling

On this episode of Ructions with Ross + Ashley, Marc Ross + Gerald Ashley discuss the state of the automotive industry, EVs, hydrogen engines, Toyota's solid-state battery with a 745-mile range, Ron DeSantis rebooting his presidential campaign, the recent UK by-elections, the possibility of the United States and the United Kingdom holding national elections the same week in November 2024, the politics of weather reporting, plus what they are reading and watching.

Timestamps:

2:00 | The state of the automotive industry + Toyota's solid-state battery

13:55 | Ron DeSantis rebooting his presidential campaign + UK by-elections

20:35 | The politics of weather reporting

30:00 | Reading + Watching

Reading + Watching List:

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration - Peter Turchin

Medici (TV Series 2016–2019) on Netflix

Oppenheimer (2023), directed by Christopher Nolan

FIFA Women's World Cup

Foreign Affairs: Tell Me How This Ends - Is There a Path to Victory in Ukraine?

The 14th annual Aspen Security Forum (July 18–21, 2023) in Aspen, Colorado

Ructions | The honest answer

On this episode of Ructions with Ross + Ashley, Marc Ross + Gerald Ashley discuss the 2023 Tour de France and the related French soft power and global advertising opportunities, the attempted putsch by Yevgeniy Prigozhin in Russia, expectations for the upcoming NATO meeting, happenings on the US and UK campaign trails, Richard Sorge, plus what they are reading and watching.

Timestamps:

1:00 | The 2023 Tour de France + French soft power + Global advertising

7:13 | What's happening in Russia

13:50 | Upcoming NATO meeting

17:50 | Happenings on the US + UK campaign trails

30:29 | Richard Sorge, the Soviet agent operating out of Tokyo in 1941

32:33 | Reading + Watching

Reading + Watching List:

The Dishoom Cookery Book - From Bombay with Love

The 2023 Tour de France

Caste and Democratic Politics in India by Ghanshyam Shah

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn