We’re just two girls, standing in front of an exec, asking them to please read the briefing book.

CEOs trust us, the media tolerates us, and our mothers think we know Oprah. The Smart in Public podcast, hosted by Katie Boysen and Katie Dufficy, shares business, career, and life experiences through the perspective of two Public Relations professionals just trying to keep their sh*t together.

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Meet the Katies

Katie Boysen

Katie has spent nearly two decades shaping communications and public relations strategies for some of the most influential agencies, entrepreneurs, startups, and Fortune 500 companies around the world.

Katie’s passion for turning business into brands, executives into trusted voices, employees into advocates, and customers into loyal partners across Silicon Valley led her to shaping communications programs for companies around the world. Most recently, she spent nearly a decade in Sydney, Australia shaping Fortune 500 C-suite voices across Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and India.

She now operates her consulting practice out of Bend, Oregon for clients based all over the globe. Catch her in the wild snowboarding, paddle boarding, watching every scary movie on the planet, and exploring her new town with her husband and golden retriever Burger.

Katie Dufficy

With nearly 20 years of PR experience under her belt Katie has worked across some of the leading global technology brands both on the agency side and in-house including Meta, HP, SAP, Accenture, Toshiba, and Salesforce. Katie has spent the last 11.5 years at Salesforce growing the local comms function and driving the brand forward into new markets in Asia Pacific.

She is a passionate team leader, diversity advocate and wishes we could create a better environment for working parents in Australia.

Katie lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband, 4 kids (including identical twin girls!) and cat Lettie. She enjoys a good coffee, a morning swim at Freshwater beach, time to read, time to listen to gritty true crime podcasts, and sipping on the only alcohol she missed when pregnant — a nice Italian red.

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