

Meredith Schwenk
Founder, Mason Ellis Advisory
Meredith is one of the most seasoned strategic communications advisors in the field — a practitioner with more than two decades of experience across executive communications, internal communications, and crisis counsel.
Her career spans some of the most recognizable and consequential brands in business, including leadership roles at Staples, Bose, Care.com, J.Jill, and Rue Gilt Groupe. Across every sector, her work has been defined by the same conviction: that a company’s voice, when shaped with intention, becomes one of its most durable assets.
She has advised senior leaders through pivotal transitions, organizational upheaval, high‑stakes crises, and the quieter, harder work of building a leadership voice that endures — the all‑hands that must inspire an organization in the middle of uncertainty, the crisis statement that must hold under public pressure, the internal message that must tell a hard truth while preserving trust.
These are the moments she has prepared leaders for throughout her career — and the moments that led her to found Mason Ellis Advisory. Her counsel is sought not because she makes leaders sound better, but because she helps them communicate with the clarity and authority their thinking has always deserved.
For leaders who understand that communications is not a finishing touch — it is strategy — Meredith is a rare and trusted advisor.