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​Investor Relations as a Strategy Function: What Every CSO Should Know

​Strategy officers spend their days thinking three to ten years out. Yet one of the most consequential levers for enabling long-term execution often sits outside their orbit: Investor Relations.

​This interactive roundtable will feature Jason Chudoba, Managing Partner at ICR and a veteran of financial and corporate communications. At ICR, one of the leading strategic communications and advisory firms working with public and private companies, Jason advises C-suite leaders on equity story development, IR programs, and the communications choices that shape how a company's strategy is understood and valued by the market.

​The conversation will examine how IR and strategy are more intertwined than most organizations recognize, and what shifts when CSOs treat the investor base as a strategic asset rather than a downstream audience.

​What We'll Cover:

• ​How an equity story is built, and why most fail to carry a three-to-five-year strategic plan all the way to the market

• ​Aligning the shareholder base with the company's strategic time horizon, and the discipline of balancing long-term vision with stock liquidity

• ​How narrative and storytelling shift the way the market perceives a company, from its identity to its growth trajectory

• ​Why a strategy that's clear inside the company often arrives clouded to the street, and what it takes to fix that

• ​The recurring tension of being handed decisions after they're made, rather than shaping them from the start

• ​What it looks like when IR, strategy, and corporate communications operate as one integrated function

​This session is designed for senior strategy leaders who want a clearer line of sight into the IR function: the levers it pulls, the choices it forces, and what changes when IR operates as part of the strategy function rather than alongside it.