Lisa Foss Young is a marketing communications leader with 15+ years of experience. For the past several years, she has focused primarily building internal and executive corporate communications programs for C-suites and teams ranging in size from 500 to 200,000 and consulting on marketing communication strategy across industries.

After starting her career founding a small entertainment weekly and PR consultancy, Lisa was a founding member at a thriving boutique advertising firm. She went on to lead communications for several marketing communication teams. Throughout her career, she has consulted for hundreds of executive teams, ranging from Fortune 100 companies to bootstrapped startups, including work with incubator and VC funding programs.

The common thread through her professional experiences has been insightfully connecting people and ideas with research and data to solve business problems. She knows that the key to everything is treating people like people, and that a combination of strategy, creativity and a strong organizational structure are how you forge successful relationships and healthy communication practices.

Lisa holds a B.S. in Communication from Purdue and an M.B.A. from Illinois. You can find her outside of work hanging out with her husband and family, cooking profusely, and walking her dog, Juno.