Danone Head of Corp. Affairs on unlocking business growth and competitive advantage — with comms

We’re not here to give comms another job, but… the role has radically changed over the last five years alone, and the impact it has on an organization is still ballooning:

• Org-wide mission, vision, values — communication
• All-hands goals, retreats, messages — communication
• Pitch decks, board updates — communication
• Strategic projects and key progress — communication
• Manager and employee skill building — communication
• Critical team feedback initiatives — communication

Comms is the heartbeat of an organization — from corp. comms, to CEO counsel, to owner of pretty much everything — and, more and more, a source of its strategy and growth.

Watch our conversation between two leaders who have seen the impact comms can have on defining an organization’s competitive advantage moving its business forward: 

• 📣 Gemma Hart, Danone North America SVP and Head of Corporate Affairs. She spent 13 years at Brunswick Group consulting on Consumer Packaged Goods, co-leading their global Change Management practice, and eventually being Partner. She spent three years as CCO at Anheuser-Busch and now heads Danone communications and public affairs.
  
  
• 📣 Roy Schwartz, Axios HQ CEO. He was a Partner at Gallup, CRO at Politico, and a co-founder of Axios. Now, at Axios HQ, leads the teams working with organizations big and small to elevate the impact of their workplace communications.