Communications can be seen as a sort of litmus test for companies. If you cannot clearly communicate a decision to your stakeholders, you might need to revisit it. One of the key roles of communications is to understand various stakeholders and their expectations – to look from the outside in. A communicator must also be able to interpret from engineering to plain English or translate financial figures into stories.

Kati Suurmunne ended up studying English at the Helsinki University without that much forethought. However, a career in industry was a clear decision.

Storytelling has been a trend in organisational communications for some time. Sense-making stories provide background for decisions and help us understand why they are made. Sense-building stories focus on the future.

Working in international companies has given me access to many places I would not normally have seen. I have been in Siberia, watched eucalyptus tree harvesting in Brazil and rented the Negresco in Nice for a company event.

I was an active member of both the Hämäläis-osakunta student nation and SUB, the organisation for English students.

Since my university times I have been actively involved in various organisations.