Chris Gay, ABC, is a co-founder of Bridge Consulting. She and her organization partner with companies to connect people and strategy through employee engagement, communication, and change management strategies that truly have an impact on business results.

Prior to Bridge Consulting, Chris was Senior Vice President, at ROI Communication and Senior Vice President of Organizational Consulting, and Global Leader of the Employee Engagement Practice for Right Management Consultants.

Chris's past clients include American Express, Aventis, Bank of America, Campbell Soup, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Eisai, Givaudan, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer Adams, Textron, Visiting Nurse Service, and Wachovia.

Chris has worked in corporate America for 25 years in the retail, manufacturing, and financial services sectors. Her extensive experience spans both Human Resources and Communication, and her corporate experience has allowed her to develop strong skills in both strategy development and execution.

Chris's strength is in developing solutions that result in the behavior change necessary to engage leadership and employees in achieving the organization's business strategy with a focus on measured results. She has worked on projects such as the integration of mergers and acquisitions, the creation of shared services organizations, internal branding, living vision and values, electronic communication design, and creating communication strategies for any number of organizational changes, including the roll-out of human resource initiatives.

Chris has earned international and national awards for her communication and engagement work, including three IABC Gold Quills, a PRSA Silver Anvil, and recognition as one of the top 20 Human Resources case studies in the world according to the International Benchmarking Association.

Her expertise in employee engagement and communication has also been recognized through speaking engagements for The Conference Board, International Association of Business Communicators, International Institute for Research, and International Quality and Productivity Center. She is an Accredited Business Communicator and has served on the IABC accreditation board and as a member of the Ohio University alumni board of directors.