Alexis has built her career in dynamic and lightning-fast environments – beginning client side in professional sports and technology and then in various progressing leadership roles spanning 17 years at Edelman, a global communications firm. She has piloted herself and teams through change, led for impact and managed with empathy.
As Founder and Principal at Redmond Advisory she helps leaders, from first-time functional heads to established CEOs, navigate personal, team and enterprise-wide change, disruption and growth. She has collaborated with organizations from start-ups and Canadian homegrown heroes to governments and not-for-profits, to global leaders like AstraZeneca, CPP Investments, Intact Financial, Novartis, Scotiabank, Starbucks and Walmart.
From supporting corporate and brand reputation reinventions and enterprise-wide restructurings to building executive leadership positioning and guiding team transformations and engagement, Alexis brings to clients more than two decades of business and strategic communications advisory experience with a track record of success from both sides of the table.
Through her work, she has designed, delivered and facilitated dozens of workshops and interactive discussions on business and communication strategy, culture and change, and trust.
Patty is founder of Treehouse Counsel, an Atlanta-based advisory, delivering value at the intersection of business strategy and communications.
With nearly four decades of diverse, transferable consulting experience, the common theme of her work is motivating stakeholders.
Whether internally or externally facing, her work resolves say/do dissonance causing friction, reducing trust, and demotivating stakeholders. With genuine language and aligned behaviors, she helps turn people into believers and active advocates.
As one of a global cohort of Certified Conscious Capitalism Consultants, Patty helps companies operate — and build reputations — as stakeholder-oriented, purpose-led leaders that are good for the world. This international approach is proven to drive profitability and resilience.
Patty’s five-agency career includes 14 years in leadership with Edelman. There she founded and led the Atlanta corporate practice, stewarded best practices across the Americas, and worked on the annual Edelman Trust Barometer research, guiding clients on how to build trust.
Patty is a board member for the Inspire Brands Foundation, Trees Atlanta, the College of Charleston College of Communications, and Conscious Capitalism. She’s a member of 1% for the Planet.
Pia Garcia is a Cannes Lions and Gold Sabre award-winning brand builder adept at steering large, complex and multinational businesses. She specializes in global thought leadership; sustainability and purpose branding; strategy, planning and insights, and producing and overseeing campaigns for corporate and consumer brands, as well as NGOs.
Philippe Borremans is an independent Public Relations consultant specialising in Emergency Risk & Crisis Communication and President of the International Public Relations Association (2021). He works on strategic communication projects for epidemic and pandemic preparedness with organisations like the World Health Organization, the European Union, and the West African Union.
As a Crisis Communications specialist, he works for multinational companies mainly in Europe and North Africa. Before emigrating to Morocco, and later to Portugal, he was Chief Social Media Officer and CSR coordinator at Van Marcke Trading Group. During ten years he held several communications positions at IBM, including Corporate and Online Communications on national and European level. Philippe started his Public Relations career at Porter Novelli International in Brussels. He is a regular guest lecturer at universities and business schools across Europe and North Africa.
Jon Goldberg is the founder and Chief Reputation Architect of Reputation Architects Inc., a strategic communications and management advisory firm focused on building, protecting and restoring reputations in a world of diminished trust and unprecedented stakeholder power.
Jon founded Reputation Architects in 2009 after more than 25 years as an advisor to corporate executives and boards, a senior leader at some of the world’s most prominent communications firms and a front-line spokesman for major corporations and non-profit organizations.
Before founding Reputation Architects, Jon was partner and director of the Corporate Affairs practice of Porter Novelli, the international communications consultancy. Earlier, he was executive vice president, general manager and national director of crisis and litigation communications at Edelman, served in senior client management roles at J. Walter Thompson, and was a principal media spokesman for The Prudential Insurance Company.
Jon is a frequent speaker, author and commentator on reputation risk management, crisis communications and corporate leadership. Trained as a journalist, he holds a BA degree in journalism as well as an MBA in finance, both from New York University.
A global marketing & communications specialists with 30 + years experience, Andres has worked for some of the world’s most innovative companies in the technology, consumer, gaming, luxury, and CPG industries.
He has held senior in-house marketing roles at Forbes 500’s – Microsoft, Sony, Unilever. Headed up and drove profitable transformation & client growth at international marketing consultancies – Edelman and Interpublic Group’s DeVries Global; provided advisory counsel to global C-Suite at Tencent, Starbucks, P&G, & IHG; and lead brand & social media campaigns for J&J, IKEA, Rosewood Hotels, New Balance, Audi, and Tesla
With this breadth of brand experience and a zeal to create culturally savvy, original and impactful marketing he launched his independent marketing consultancy – Cali17 – to connect brands to consumers and communities
Based in Hong Kong, his international markets consulting specialises in APAC – China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, India, Australia