A Communications, Marketing, Public and Government Affairs, Transformation, and Crisis Management executive with over a decade in the C-suite of Fortune 500 companies, serving simultaneously as the CCO and CMO. Recognized leader in CSR, crisis communications, government relations, public affairs, ESG, transformation, change management and measurement, and a contributor to six books: “The World’s Foremost Authorities on Marketing – Top CMOs Share What They Know Best” (2012), “Superbrands International” (Forward 2012), PR News’ “Corporate Social Responsibility Guidebook” (2013), “The Most Important Woman in the Room is You” (2019), Institute for Public Relations’ “Leadership Perspectives: Leading and Looking Ahead Through COVID-19” (2020), and “Business Acumen for Strategic Communicators” (2020); also profiled as an industry expert in Diana Booher’s “What More Can I Say?” and the PR Museum’s “Diverse Voices, Profiles in Leadership.”
An EMMY winner, PR News Hall of Famer, Forbes Top 50 Most Influential Global CMO, inaugural inductee in the Women in Communications Hall of Fame, two-time Cannes Lion winner, ExecRank Top 30 CMO, and a 2017 inductee into the PR Week Hall of Femme as well as the first American to win the Relations 4 the Future Medal at the Communications 4 the Future awards at Davos. Named to the Latino Leaders’ Latina 100 (2020), as the first PR Week Most Purposeful CCO (2019), and the 2019 Latina Style Corporate Executive of the Year. On the 2020 PRovoke Influence 100, the 2019 Holmes Report Influence 100, and Moves Magazine Power Woman lists, and the winner of the 2018 Innovation SABRE for Most Innovative Marketing Communications Professional – Brand, and the 2018 Outstanding In-house Professional of the Year by PR Week. Appointed by the Governor of Louisiana to serve as the youngest gubernatorial appointee to run a state agency in the state since Reconstruction – as Executive Director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board.
E-folio can be found at: https://www.flipsnack.com/BladesExhibit/catherine-hernandez-blades-updated-exhibit-11-2020.html