Communication science · Ethical influence · AI
Communication
changes people.
Understand how.
Use that power well.
Elizabeth Edwards is a communication researcher, affect strategist, and keynote speaker. She translates behavioral and affective science into communication excellence, ethical persuasion, and more intelligent work with AI.
Original frameworks. 25 years of strategic practice.
Keynotes · Training · Strategic counsel
Beyond the message
You need understanding.
Not just attention.
A message can be accurate and still fail to connect. A campaign can produce reactions without building trust. AI can multiply output without deepening anyone’s thinking.
Elizabeth’s work asks a more consequential question: what is this communication making possible for the person receiving it?
Her Affective Intelligence and Resonant Communication frameworks bring a fuller view of perception, instinct, context, and human capacity into communication strategy. The aim: clearer understanding, willing action, stronger relationships, and influence that respects people’s ability to choose.
Explore the science & original workhuman
capacity.
Understand what shapes the response.
People bring a history, a context, and a changing state to every encounter. Elizabeth’s work examines how these conditions shape what people notice, understand, consider, and choose.
Explore Affective IntelligenceExplore the connected areas of Elizabeth’s work.
Bring the perspective into your world
A new way to see it.
A practical way forward.
Speaking
Eye-opening keynotes on communication science, ethical influence, and the possibilities and responsibilities of AI.
02 / THE CAPABILITYTraining
Help your team communicate more effectively, persuade with integrity, and work with AI at a higher level.
03 / THE DECISIONStrategic counsel
Bring behavioral and affective insight to a communication, reputation, leadership, or AI challenge.
The depth behind the perspective
A career connecting
science with communication.
Elizabeth founded Volume PR in 2001. Her work connecting communication practice with behavioral and affective science began long before today’s generative AI tools.
Across agency leadership, research synthesis, original frameworks, and professional education, she examines how communication shapes human experience—and how to put that knowledge to responsible, practical use.
Frontier Intelligence carries that inquiry forward: advancing understanding in our own fields, including the ways AI can expand our intelligence and capacity.
The story & the contributionIdeas in the world
A perspective
worth spending time with.
Real Simple · Quoted expert
The everyday influence hiding in plain sight.
Read the grocery-shelf featureAffective Intelligence · Essays
How we understand people changes how we engage them.
Read Elizabeth’s workPRSA · Strategies & Tactics · June–July 2026
What to Know About PR 3.0 and the Intelligence Era
Read Elizabeth’s latest PRSA perspectiveA perspective published in Forbes Agency Council
“ethics must scale with capability.”
Elizabeth Edwards · Expert-panel contribution on emotional connection
A connected body of work
One perspective.
Clear ways to engage.
For universities & academic programs
Bring the frontier
into the classroom.
Guest lectures and university workshops connecting communication science, Affective Intelligence, ethical influence, and sophisticated AI practice. Explore examples from Elizabeth’s Pepperdine guest teaching and shape a session for your students or faculty.
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Make your next communication a turning point.
Bring Elizabeth to your audience, build your team’s skills, or explore a strategic question.
Work with Elizabeth