Ragan Staff
Announcing the 2026 Top Women in Communications Hall of Fame honorees
Meet the women whose decades of impact continue to redefine what leadership in communications can achieve.
Corporate Communications
Isis Simpson-Mersha
USAA’s AVP of communications on the most important rule in a crisis
Lewis Pryor of USAA says just because you can share information doesn’t mean it’s the right message — understanding the audience comes first.
Diane Schwartz
Top Stories of 2025: Strategy, empathy and a seat at the table add up to success for ING leader
ING America’s head of comms & brand experience leans into early mornings, the Orange Code and a little bit of TikTok.
Cara Mia DiMassa
Managing change doesn’t have to be so hard
Lessons from Ragan’s Leadership Retreat & Summit for Women.
Cara Mia DiMassa
5 takeaways for communicators from Ragan’s Leadership Summit & Retreat
How powerful leaders find clarity amid crisis.
Isis Simpson-Mersha
GE Appliances’ senior communications leader on balancing silence and transparency
GE Appliances Sr. Manager of Corporate Communications & Community Engagement, Katina Whitlock, shares the key to getting a tough message right.
Michael DesRochers
5 Data-backed best practices for internal emails
What 4 billion internal emails reveal about capturing employee attention in the inbox.
Sean Devlin
VIDEO: The Comms Leader’s Corner: A conversation with Wendy Sherwood of CBRE
Talking shop with the best in the communications industry.
Isis Simpson-Mersha
LA Tourism’s director of corporate communications makes the city the main character
Plus, the key to adapting messages across industries.
Liz Stein
What comms should do before, during and after M&A
Communications is the way to bring together two organizations.
Allison Carter
These were communicators’ biggest surprises of 2025 so far
It’s been a wild year — and we’re only halfway done.
Diane Schwartz
‘Crushing it’ is all in a day’s work for Power Design’s head of comms
A conversation on making employees feel truly valued.
Justin Joffe
What we’re learning about learning
Lessons learned from the first few weeks of the new Ragan Training learning portal.
Tom Corfman
8 tips for a one-person communications team
How to make your work more effective and rewarding when you’re flying solo.
