JASON ANTHOINE
Managing Founder
I do one thing: help companies inform, involve, and inspire their employees.
Ok, maybe that’s three things.
When I was growing up, my dad was a foreman on the production line at a school bus factory. He spent 37 years making school buses. And making a difference.
He actually cared about his job, his company, and the people he worked with. He cared about the kids who’d be riding those buses. And he cared about his employees. Not just their livelihoods but also their lives.
He did all that because he stood for something. Things like common sense, simplicity, practicality, decency, respect, the pride in team work, the value of hard work, and doing the right thing not just to make things different but to make them better.
That made quite an impression on me.
Because of him, for over 30 years I’ve worked in internal communication, employee experience and culture change to help companies build relationships with their workforces to drive business results. To treat their employees as humans, not human resources.
That’s not just the right thing to do for employees. It’s the right thing to do for the business.
Over my career, I’ve helped more than 100 companies reimagine their approach to internal comms and culture, guiding them to inform, involve and inspire more than 700,000 employees to build a better workplace that outperforms in the marketplace.
My passion — indeed, our whole team’s passion — is taking corporate cultures to places they can’t go on their own. We dig into the most vexing corporate challenges then reframe those as opportunities to develop bold, fresh ideas about what it means to have an “engaged” workforce.
Why? Because there’s nothing more satisfying than helping companies and their employees move their culture from tired and bored to inspired and on board.
This work is more than just what I do. Thanks to my dad, it’s who I am.
EXPERIENCE
Jason Anthoine is the managing founder and head honcho at Audacity, a consulting firm focused on employee engagement, internal communications, and culture change.
With more than 32 years’ experience, Jason’s career includes leading global communications for GE Energy Management, an $8 billion manufacturer of energy and electrical components with more than 20,000 employees, and Newell Brands, a $16 billion manufacturer of consumer packaged goods with more than 30,000 employees.
Earlier in his career, Jason also led internal communications for Southwire Company and Siemens Energy & Automation. His client work includes employee engagement and change management assignments for CIBA Vision, The Coca-Cola Company, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Johnson & Johnson, Mars Chocolate North America, and Time Warner Cable.
In 2011, he founded Connect, which today has become the largest internal comms conference on the planet. In 2020, he pioneered Audacity’s groundbreaking What Employees Want research to uncover the unvarnished truth about what employees truly want from internal comms and their workplace experience, not just what they lie about on company “engagement” surveys.
A frequent conference keynoter and presenter, webinar leader and podcast guest, Jason has shared his internal comms and corporate culture insights and experience with thousands of like-minded communication and HR leaders looking for a better way.
He proudly serves on his alma mater’s Board of Trust at The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Once you hear him speak, it’ll be obvious he grew up in the middle of peach orchards in Fort Valley, Georgia, and now lives in Atlanta with his son, Henry, and their dog, Loretta.