ABC Advanced Business English Communications
Michael Ambjorn is founder of Align Your Org, and passionate about helping changemakers – whether corporate, public sector or non-profit – achieve purpose-driven impact. With a participation- centric approach he and his colleagues enable effective strategic planning, communication – and clarity of execution. Ambjorn has served as chair of IABC’s Europe and Middle East Region and is the facilitator for IABC’s 2014–17 strategy. He has worked in various management roles at IBM, Motorola and, most recently, the 260–year–old Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (RSA) in London, where he remains an active Fellow.
Term End Date: 26-Jun-16
Vice Chair – Dianne Lynn Chase
Dianne Lynn Chase is senior partner at C4CS, LLC, Leaders in Strategic Communication and Crisis Management, serving client partners from around the world. She oversees development and instruction in crisis communication, planning and management; message development; issues management; and presentation and interviewing skills training for corporate and government clients. She is immediate past chair of the IABC Southern Region, where she’s served five years on the board. She served as vice chair of the 2015 IABC World Conference Program Advisory Committee and as a member of the IABC Brand Taskforce. Chase is also long-standing board member and past two-term president (and first woman to serve in the role) of the Radio-Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (formerly the Radio Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas). She is the winner of numerous local, state, regional, and national broadcast journalism awards.
Term End Date: 26-Jun-17
Past Chair – Russell L. Grossman, ABC
Russell L. Grossman (@RussellAtIABC) joined IABC in 2002. He is the group director of communications at the UK Department for Business. Russell was twice a member of the IABC EXCEL committee, and chaired the Program Advisory Committee for IABC World Conference in 2010 and 2011. He gained his ABC in 2011 and also holds the CAM Diploma in Public Relations as well as a master’s of science in engineering. He is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Marketing, of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, where he has sat on the professional qualifications advisory committee. He is a director of Engage for Success and has been a visiting Fellow at Cass Business School, part of City University, London. Russell and his long-suffering wife reside in north London and have four children, two of whom are married.
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