Executive communications & culture
Giving corporate values a practical meaning
Two McDermott films: a leadership message about quality and safety, and a values story about integrity and trust.
- Organization
- McDermott
- My contribution
- Integrity: concept, script, and project management. QHSES: script, storyboard, and direction.
- Focus
- Leadership communication, corporate values, and visual storytelling

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Two distinct communication tasks
Quality, health, safety, environment, and security cover different responsibilities. The QHSES film brings them into a shared leadership message. A separate film, Our Values – Integrity, explores the trust people place in work that may serve them for generations.
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My contribution
For Our Values – Integrity, I developed the concept, wrote the script, and managed the project. For the QHSES video, I wrote the script, developed the storyboard, and directed the piece. The QHSES work formed part of a broader culture initiative that included leadership messaging, emails, intranet stories, and town halls.
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Making the message concrete
The films approach corporate expectations from different angles. QHSES gathers five responsibilities into one message about excellence. Integrity connects an abstract value to a practical obligation: people should be able to trust work they were not there to witness.
The finished work
See and hear it.

Our Values – Integrity
A corporate values film connecting integrity with the trust people place in work they did not witness and structures that can serve generations.
My contributionConcept, script, and project management
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Seeking Nothing Less than QHSES Excellence
A leadership film bringing quality, health, safety, environment, and security into one message about the standards and shared responsibilities that guide McDermott’s work.
My contributionScript, storyboard, and direction
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