
After 13 years at Edelman and a turn leading CEO communications advisory at Weber Shandwick, Will Crain joined AMD. His public work asks a timely question: what happens when a leader’s words become more polished than believable?
A chocolate Statue of Liberty. A Colonel Sanders visible by satellite. Gail Heimann built a career on ideas people could talk about - then took that sensibility into the chief executive’s office at Weber Shandwick.
Before she became an agency CEO, Stacey Bernstein helped companies find their voice online. Her career turns on a quieter skill: getting the people inside an organization ready to speak to the people outside it.

A rained-out date, a career across agency disciplines, and a belief that unusual ideas deserve a hearing. Mike Rosich is building a communications business around the people who can connect them.
From six-minute telexes to a healthcare brief spanning agency networks, the Brazilian-born executive has spent four decades making distance less important - without pretending difference does not exist.
Lorenz Esguerra is the chief executive of Folklore, a Minneapolis-area design and technology agency he has grown roughly 40% in under a year. A Filipino American agency veteran with a 30-year career spanning Procter & Gamble, Bain & Co., Weber Shandwick and Edelman, he is known for turning offices into growth engines and for championing diversity in the advertising profession as treasurer of the nonprofit The BrandLab.
Cortney Lusignan is a seasoned communications and public relations executive currently serving as Senior Program Manager, AWS Communications, supporting the AWS Global Communications Vice President at Amazon Web Services. With a career spanning major PR agencies including Weber Shandwick and Edelman, and deep industry expertise in financial services, healthcare, and technology PR, Lusignan has built a reputation as a trusted operator at the intersection of enterprise cloud and strategic communications.