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Leaders need a new perspective
Leaders require new skills and intelligence to navigate a myriad of different stakeholder viewpoints and expectations. Even the smallest business decisions have the potential to alienate or inspire a particular stakeholder group, which can have a direct impact on reputation, resiliency, and valuation.
Myriant is The Weber Shandwick Collective’s executive advisory business dedicated to helping organizations navigate the risks and opportunities in today’s increasingly complex world by applying a stakeholder lens to business decisions, leveraging industry exclusive, AI-backed analytics and insights to help leaders address issues and opportunities.
To enable better business performance in an increasingly challenging landscape, our experts leverage the latest technology on your behalf to generate stakeholder insights and help you adapt the latest technology to best drive your business. Learn more
Narrative Intelligence enables business leaders to understand stakeholders’ opinions, needs and motivations and how adversaries are misinforming and misleading their audiences – in order to design resilient business strategies that create value and protect against risk. Learn more
Effective investor engagement connects insights, narratives and financial data to manage expectations around opportunities and risks. Learn more
Chair
Chris Deri
Leadership Positioning / Executive Coaching / Organizational Transformation
Chris has advised multinational companies, government and NGOs in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East around corporate positioning, public diplomacy, organizational design, digital transformation, and ESG. He oversees The Weber Shandwick Collective’s advisory practices and brands in corporate & public affairs, management consulting and research & insights.
Senior Principal
Spencer Schrage
Consulting / positioning / corporate and portfolio strategy
Based in New York, Spencer uses his deep expertise in corporate and portfolio strategy, positioning, innovation and enterprise narrative development to advise C-suite executives and their teams on business decision making, brand strategy and stakeholder management. Prior to Myriant, Spencer was a Global Principal at Ogilvy Consulting.
Senior Principal
Ethan Bauley
Geopolitical conflicts / public health / cyberattacks
Based in New York, Ethan leads analytics and strategic planning, including our AI-powered Narrative Intelligence offering. He also directs the group’s Media Security Center, working with a global network of technology companies and academics to help clients counter mis- and disinformation. He brings more than 20 years of expertise convening diverse specialists and data sources to solve clients’ biggest challenges from geopolitical risks to stakeholder relations, new product launches, public health issues, cyberattacks and ESG programs.
Senior Principal
Lucia Domville
Event-driven capital markets issues / financial communications / investor relations
With over 25 years of experience, Lucia specializes in investor relations and financial communications, providing strategic counsel on capital markets transactions, institutional and retail investor engagement, investor messaging, financial media relations, and issues management. Lucia has advised domestic and international companies across various sectors, including consumer, energy, finance, technology, and real estate.
Senior Principal
Marc Drechsler
Event-driven capital markets issues / financial communications / investor relations
With a career spanning three decades in financial communications and services, Marc advises clients on event-driven capital markets issues as well as long-term corporate positioning and investor relations programs. He’s advised hundreds of clients across North America, Europe and Asia, giving trusted counsel to senior executives on critical, high-stakes business decisions.
Principal
Christine Beggan
Capital markets and financial communications / financial events and transactions / shareholder activism
Working with clients across CPG, retail, hospitality, wellness, fintech, industrials, insurance and beyond, Christine is a highly specialized adviser with particular experience developing effective communications related to financial events and transactions. She’s led the strategy on many notable projects and her work covers events including quarterly earnings, IPOs, spin-offs, M&A, investment rounds, divestitures, shareholder activism and executive transitions.
Principal
Ross Kleinrock
Business strategy / product strategy and development / tech, data privacy & AI
Ross has strong operations, consulting and entrepreneurial experience. Before joining Myriant, he led Growth & Integration for the Business & Society Futures group at Weber Shandwick. Prior to that, he worked on building a complex sports gaming company and web app. As a consultant at EY, he advised senior-level stakeholders on product, go-to-market and general business strategy, in addition to designing and launching internal processes and software systems.
Principal
Tiffany Yeh
Narrative intelligence / communications strategy / research and insights
Tiffany brings more than a decade of professional experience to Myriant, leading teams through research, insights and implications phases to comms planning, strategies, tactics and stakeholder intelligence. During her career, she’s worked across a variety of industries and Fortune 500 clients, including automotive, food service, healthcare, technology and CPG. She is currently the VP for Integrated Project Management with Weber Shandwick.
Principal
Shiwei Yin
Financial communications / capital market intelligence / geopolitical dynamics
With a keen understanding of the economy and capital markets, Shiwei is passionate about applying analytics-driven insights to help client companies improve visibility and valuation. He has strategized and executed financial communications programs for companies across sectors and market caps, with a track record for aiding international businesses seeking access to U.S. markets. Shiwei started his career in equity sales and trading, and speaks English, Chinese and Japanese.
Associate Principal
Milan Khatami
Communications strategies and campaigns / corporate reputation / crisis & issues management
Milan’s experience advising on financial and corporate issues spans a range of industries, with a focus on the consumer and technology sectors. Working with some of the world’s most recognizable brands, she develops and executes comprehensive, global strategies and campaigns for public listings, media relations, leadership transitions, crisis issues and cybersecurity incidents. Her expertise has been critical in allowing companies and their leaders to optimize their reputation and positioning with employees, investors, customers and the media.
Our external Senior Advisors come from senior roles in business, government and politics, civil society and academia.
We also draw on relevant expertise from across The Weber Shandwick Collective.
U.S. Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence; CEO and Co-Founder, Humane Intelligence
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury is a data scientist and social scientist. She is the CEO of the tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence, which builds a community of practice around evaluations of AI models, as well as the United States Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Chowdhury is also Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Previously, Dr. Chowdhury was the Director of the ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) team at Twitter, as well as the Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence.
Executive Director, Coalition for Rainforest Nations
Kevin Conrad
Coalition for Rainforest Nations Executive Director
Kevin Conrad served as Papa New Guinea’s Special Envoy for Environment and Climate Change from 2005 to 2014. A leader of global efforts to quantify the value of tropical forests, he spearheaded the United Nations’ REDD (“Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries”) initiative and the establishment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility at the World Bank.
Senior Vice President, Head of Research, Advisory & Specialty Solutions, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Sarah Cottle
S&P Global Market Intelligence Research, Advisory and Specialty Solutions Head Sarah Cottle oversees a suite of content and capabilities that leverage proprietary data and insights to conduct rigorous analysis and risk management of global sectors and trends across sustainability, supply chain and financial services.
Senior Executive Vice President for Social Impact, Growth & Policy, National Hockey League
Kimberly Davis
With many years of experience, Kimberly currently stands as Senior Executive Vice President of Social Impact, Growth Initiatives & Legislative Affairs for the National Hockey League. She is a pioneer of groundbreaking initiatives to attract and retain fans, focusing on diverse cultural audiences and spearheading the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative to advance gender diversity and pay equity.
Former White House Communications Director
Mike Dubke
As Former Assistant to the President for Communications in the White House, Mike has a wealth of expertise with communications and advocacy efforts on the relationship between media strategy and public policy. He works across industries and with nonprofits, advocating for digital security and child safety online.
Former Head of Communications, Vice President Kamala Harris
Ashley Etienne
A veteran communications strategist and trusted advisor to Presidents and Vice Presidents, Ashley works with our clients on a wide range of societal, reputational and public affairs issues. She specializes in high-impact integrated communications and digital strategies for high-stakes social and political campaigns.
Former North American Chair, APCO Worldwide
Nelson Fernandez
As founder of Crosby Street Consultants and the former Chair of APCO North America, Nelson has advised top management on executive leadership communications, internal alignment, brand and marketing communication, issue and crisis management, corporate positioning, thought leadership and stakeholder engagement.
Leadership Expert, C-Suite Coach, Non-Executive Director, DEI Strategist
India Gary-Martin
India is a sought-after leadership strategist and expert on leading diversity, equity and inclusion best practices. Formerly the Global Chief Operating Officer for Investment Banking Technology and Operations with JP Morgan Chase, she now serves on the coaching faculty at Georgetown University and the New York City Bar Association.
Former Chairman/CEO of Yum! Foundation
Jerilan Greene
As the former Yum! Brands Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer, Jerilan led global strategy and governance for the company’s ESG, global communications and government affairs functions. She also served as Chair and CEO of the Yum! Foundation, shaping the foundation’s philanthropic, grantmaking and social impact investment priorities.
Former Managing Director, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
Adrian Hodges
Adrian is a highly respected expert voice on the impact of corporate strategy and business operations on society. He brings more than 25 years of experience working closely with senior business leaders to create responsible value chains and brands with social purpose, helping to build competitive advantage and meeting sustainable development goals.
Executive Director, National Minority AIDS Council
Paul Kawata
As Executive Director of the National Minority AIDS Council, Paul brings us many years of experience confronting racial justice, health equity, and LGBTQ+ community development & relations. He’s collaborated with Congress and governments at local, state and national levels to help work towards ending the HIV and AIDS epidemics.
President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Kerry Kennedy
Kerry is the longstanding President for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and has worked internationally to advance child labor issues, women’s rights, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence issues, criminal justice reform, immigration, impunity and ESG investing.
We’re always looking for brilliant and creative minds to make us better. Check out our openings to see if there are any opportunities of interest to you.
