Katharine Auer

Katharine leads Employee & Executive Communication at Zurich which includes being responsible for communications strategy and execution,strengthening employee engagement through effective communication practices,global employee surveys, metrics and performance scorecards, multi-cultural communications, brand internalization and communications skills training. She has accrued significant expertise in her very impressive career which includes previous roles as Head of Internal Communications at Rio Tinto, Head of Global Internal and Management Communications at Shell, Head of Global Internal Communications at AstraZeneca, Corporate Communications Lead at GE Capital EEF and Corporate Communications Manager at Corange/Boehringer Mannheim (laterRoche). In March 2015 she won Internal Communications Professional of the Year at the BOCIC Brilliance Awards. Katharine will share her insight into continuous listening and sentiment analysis to allow predictions on engagement as part of the case study revolution on how to bring employee voice and insight into real-time to achieve an accurate map of engagement sentiment.