Mastering the Message: How to Collaborate with Executives and Departments to Deliver Engaging, Informative Town Halls

Ashley is Assistant Vice President with Jackson’s Enterprise Communications team, leading the Events, Multimedia Design and Internal Communications functions. Her team designs events, experiences and creative assets for external and internal audiences, and plans and implements strategic communications for Jackson employees. Ashley joined Jackson in 2010 in the Company’s eLearning and Training department, a team she later led. In 2017, she took a leadership position with Jackson’s Internal Communications team, quickly elevating the role to Director, Internal Communications before expanding the team and assuming her current role. Prior to joining Jackson, she served as an independent consultant focusing on communications, media relations, marketing, distribution strategy, advisor and customer experience, business development. Practice management and charitable giving and planning. She has held senior leadership roles in Marketing, Communications and Investment Operations supporting firms like Northwestern Mutual, LPL Financial and AXA Advisors, LLC (now Equitable). Ashley studied political science and speech communications at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and holds FINRA Series 7 and 66 registrations. Jackson is a member of Ragan's Communications Leadership Council. 

With more than two decades of experience building and protecting brands, Lisa Claybon serves as vice president of communications for Compass Group North America, a foodservice and support services company and its Chartwells K12 division that serves meals to students in more than 4,500 schools across the country. Since joining the company nearly five years ago, she has led strategic communications activities ranging from media relations and crisis management to guiding the company’s cross-functional COVID-19 Task Force. Before joining Compass Group, she spent 17 years with one of the top global communications firms where she worked with some of the world’s most renowned brands. She has served as a media spokesperson, managed large-scale crisis situations, led M&A communications, and counseled countless corporations and nonprofit organizations.