Writing about Sensitive Subjects

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.

Amanda Minto is the director of HR communications for Technology, Product, Xperience at Comcast, where she uses strategic communications to drive the employee experience and support the employee value proposition. Believing that transparency is best, Amanda has extensive experience with crisis and issues management dealing with more than 100 reductions in force and reorgs, site closures/moves, product sunsets, employee accidents and facility incident preparedness, and most recently COVID-19 response and Return to Office planning. In her current role, she leads employee communications related to all things HR including organization culture, talent and career programs, People Leader strategy and executive communications. Amanda lives outside of Philadelphia with her wife, two kids and two dogs.