How to Link Your Communication to Organizational Strategy

Emily Lynch is currently the Director, Global Employee Communications, at Pearson, based in Washington, DC. She serves as the internal communications business partner to the CEO and CSO, providing strategic counsel, planning and developing financial communications about quarterly earnings updates, senior appointments, and divestments, and crafts and drives consistent messaging around the company’s strategy and commercial performance. Prior to that, Emily was the Strategy and Planning Manager for the Global Corporate Affairs and Marketing team at Pearson, the Board Liaison at the World Resources Institute (WRI), and the Washington Assistant Director for Corporate Affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She received her BA from The George Washington University in May 2010, where she majored in International Affairs with a minor in Journalism. She also obtained a certificate in Marketing from Georgetown University in 2012, and an MBA from The George Washington University in 2020.

Molly is passionate about community, service, and improving the human condition. She has held various roles over the last eleven years serving the students in the higher education industry. As Vice President of University Communications and Advancement at Northcentral University, an online graduate-focused non-profit university, Molly centers her team around a community-centric culture. She celebrates diversity of thought, action, experience and holistically believes in the power of being inclusive and transparent in all things related to communications. Molly believes that effective communications are essential to achieving organizational success and support the development and sustainability of a healthy culture.

As a results-focused leader in marketing and communications, Brandy has created and directed global messaging and campaigns for products, people, and ideas. Her team looks after corporate executive communications (CEO, CFO, CHRO, and CSO), which includes communications around culture and transformation, strategy and performance, crisis and recovery, talent and learning, employee experience and engagement, and employee channels and communities for more than 20,000 team members around the world. Brandy also helps teach graduate-level courses in communication and leadership at Columbia University.