Earning Your Seat


Communications leadership rarely comes with clear answers. Expectations shift, stakes rise. And at some point, the room starts looking to you.

Earning Your Seat is a podcast about learning how to lead in that moment.

Hosted by Dino Delic, who leads Meltwater’s Data Driven Communications Research Lab, alongside Genevieve Brammall, Head of PR at News Corp Australia, and Stephanie Lerdall, Head of Corporate Communications at Morningstar, the show brings together three distinct perspectives on modern communications leadership.

Each episode is built around real experience. The decisions that shape trust and the moments that test credibility. You can expect conversations with communications, marketing, and insights leaders who have earned their seat and are willing to share how they did it. What they learned the hard way. What they wish they had known sooner.

If you work in communications and want to show up prepared and credible when it matters most, this show is for you.

Listen to Earning Your Seat. Available now on all major streaming platforms.

What is Earning Your Seat?

The role of communications has changed. The expectations are higher. The margin for error is smaller.
Earning Your Seat is a podcast for communications leaders operating under changed expectations without a clear playbook.

Hosted by Dino Delic, Stephanie Lerdall, and Genevieve Brammall, the show places the hosts inside an experience many communicators recognize. Smart, capable leaders learning in real time how influence is earned, tested, and sustained.
Each episode features candid conversations with leaders across communications, data, media, and technology. Alongside those conversations, the hosts test ideas in real time, question what they have been taught, and confront where common advice breaks down under organizational pressure.

This is not aspirational thought leadership. It is a practical look at growth as it happens. How communicators earn trust, collaborate across functions, and lead with authority in a world moving faster than the role itself.

Pull up a chair. The work begins now.