Future-Proofing Your Career: Thriving Through Leadership Change

Sabrina K. Steele is executive director of the Corporate Affairs and Communications Division at The Aerospace Corporation, where she's responsible for leading an integrated, national team of professionals to promote the company as a thought leader across the space enterprise. Steele directs her team’s efforts to address myriad strategic and tactical corporate communications needs, including public and media relations, internal and external communications, and thought leadership and innovation campaigns that support and drive corporate strategy. Through the leadership of the corporation’s brand and reputation programs, Steele oversees the essential task of communicating Aerospace’s role as the nation’s trusted partner, solving the hardest problems for the preeminent space enterprise. She was promoted to her current position in 2014. Before joining Aerospace, Steele was director of communications at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems in California. She also led marketing communications and served as the deputy corporate spokesperson for Raytheon Company in Massachusetts. Prior to that, she was an award-winning reporter/editor for the Press-Telegram, a Knight-Ridder newspaper in Long Beach, California.