Leigh Parrish is a senior managing director in the FTI Strategic Communications practice and is based in New York. She serves as the practice's Retail & Consumer sector leader in the Americas.
Experience
As a senior communications consultant with more than 15 years experience, she has a proven track record in directing critical communications campaigns and devising multi-stakeholder strategic communications programs. Ms. Parrish’s client engagements have ranged from innovative capital markets and business media relations programs to advising clients on communications issues including corporate positioning, key message development, management transitions and terminations, and employee communications. She has extensive experience in event-driven, crisis and financial situations such as bankruptcy or restructuring, regulatory probes, litigation, product recalls and other reputational issues. Ms. Parrish’s special situations experience also includes initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.
While her client experience is varied having worked across industries spanning retail, consumer, education, real estate, media, and financial services, Ms. Parrish has had a particular focus on helping retail and consumer companies engage with the capital markets. She has led programs for a variety of retailers such as OfficeMax, Aéropostale, Guitar Center, The Children’s Place, Talbots, Dollar General, Circuit City and Lumber Liquidators, consumer companies such as International Flavors & Fragrances, Movado Group, and Jarden Corporation and other companies such as Advanstar Communications, Envision EMI, Maguire Properties and Fairfield Residential.
Ms. Parrish began her career at Robertson, Stephens and managed investor relations at Ivanhoe Mines Inc. prior to joining Morgen-Walke Associates, which later merged with Financial Dynamics (now FTI Consulting). She graduated with a B.A. in history from San Diego State University.