Make complex ideas clear.
Explain what matters, why it matters and what it means for the people you need to reach.
Keynote speaker · Communication researcher · Affect strategist
Communication
changes people.
Understand how.
Use that power well.
Build understanding. Earn trust. Move important work forward.
Elizabeth Edwards translates behavioral and affective science into communication excellence, ethical persuasion, and more intelligent work with AI. Her keynotes, training, and strategic counsel help people see their work differently—and become more capable of doing it well.
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Selected organizations
Global brands. Professional communities. Work that matters.
Organizations Elizabeth has worked with through client engagements, speaking, and training.
Microsoft- Transamerica
BMW
Allstate
SONY
Delta Dental
Charter
Shriners Hospitals for Children
PRSA
IABC
NSPRA
CAPIO- Cerveza Imperial
A fuller understanding of communication
What people hear.
What they feel.
What becomes possible.
A carefully crafted message can still leave people uncertain about what it means for them.
Context, expectations and experience shape what people can notice, consider and choose.
Elizabeth connects behavioral and affective science with communication practice: building understanding, supporting human agency and making meaningful action possible.
Explore the science & original workBuild trust. Invite willing action.
Develop ethical persuasion that supports trust, consideration and willing action.
Expand what people can do.
Build stronger communication and AI skills, with human expertise and judgment in charge.
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A new perspective.
A room ready to use it.
Give your audience more than another set of trends. Help them understand the forces changing communication—and leave with clearer ways to think, lead, and work.
Elizabeth brings original frameworks, 25 years of agency leadership, and practical teaching to business audiences, communication professionals, leadership teams, and universities.
Explore keynotes & speaking topics Watch more keynote & workshop examplesSee her delivery, perspective, and connection with an audience.
Bring the work into your world
Choose the conversation
your people need.
From a shared moment of insight to sustained skill development, begin with what you want people to understand or become able to do.
Open the room’s thinking.
The science of trust. Affective Intelligence. Ethical influence. Sophisticated AI use. Programs that connect emerging ideas with your audience’s professional reality.
Find your speaking topic Discuss your event
Turn insight into capability.
Build stronger communication practice, direct more sophisticated work with AI, and give people ways to evaluate what they create. Training shaped around your team’s work.
Explore practical training Discuss your team’s goals
Work through what matters.
Bring a deeper understanding of people to a communication, reputation, leadership, or AI challenge. Connect the science with the decisions in front of you.
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Hear the thinking.
Follow the conversation.
10 Minute Martech with Sara Faatz · Progress
Create Relationships,
Not Reactions
Trust, language, ethical influence, and the responsibilities that come with AI. Start here for a conversation connecting Elizabeth’s science and business perspective.
Quoted expert · October 2026
The everyday influence
hiding in plain sight.
Why grocery-store shelf placement influences what ends up in your cart. Elizabeth explains how the design of an everyday encounter can shape attention and choice.
Read the Real Simple featureArticle image: Real Simple, via AOL.
More conversations to listen to
Take a deeper idea into your day.
Talking PR · PR Consultants Group
How AI Search Is Rewriting PR Strategy
With Jennifer Regen Bisbee
Elizabeth and Jennifer Regen Bisbee discuss AI-mediated reputation, public understanding, and the changing responsibilities of PR.
Episode notes & source
EthicalVoices
The Ethical Challenges of Weaponized Communication
With Mark McClennan
A discussion of language, ethical responsibility, and recognizing communication that closes down thought rather than supporting understanding.
Episode notes & source
PR Talk · Veracity
Science-based Marketing with Elizabeth Edwards
With Amy Rosenberg
Connecting behavioral research with campaign development, crisis communication, and the measurement of communication outcomes.
Episode notes & sourceFor universities & academic communities
Bring today’s questions
into tomorrow’s practice.
Help students, faculty, and staff connect communication science with the decisions taking shape around them: how influence works, what makes it ethical, and how to work intelligently with AI.
Explore Elizabeth’s university guest lectures and workshops, including examples from Pepperdine, and shape a session for your academic community.
Explore university teaching Invite Elizabeth to your universityThe experience behind the perspective
25 years of practice.
A continuing frontier.
Elizabeth founded Volume PR in 2001. Her work connecting behavioral science and communication began long before today’s generative AI tools.
Agency leadership, research synthesis, original frameworks, and professional education inform the same question: how can we communicate with greater understanding, impact, and responsibility?
A conversation starts here
Give your people a new way to see what’s possible.
Tell us about your event, your team, or the question you want to move forward.
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