Laura Renaud
Associate Director, Enterprise Communications - The Hershey Company
Laura is an enterprise communications leader at The Hershey Company, where she leads communications strategies focused on strengthening corporate reputation, executive visibility and stakeholder trust. Her career spans corporate and executive communications, integrated marketing, brand storytelling, digital and social media, content strategy and experiential marketing.
Throughout her 15-year career at Hershey, Laura has worked at the intersection of business strategy, reputation and storytelling, translating complex priorities into clear, audience-first communications. Today, she is particularly interested in how AI and LLM-powered discovery are reshaping trust and influence. Laura is a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School and Northwestern University’s Medill School. She resides in Hershey, Pennsylvania with her family.
