Amy Wulfestieg has spent her career driving company culture, brand awareness and business growth through internal and external communications strategy, media relations and stakeholder engagement, leading teams through complex change and building high-performing communications functions from the ground up.
Most recently, Amy served as Chief Communications Officer at Brightspeed, where she led the company's full communications function, including internal and external communications, media relations, organizational change management, corporate social responsibility and reputation management, through its formation as a private equity-backed carve-out from Lumen Technologies, building external market credibility and stakeholder trust for a new standalone brand.
Before Brightspeed, Amy led internal communications at Nordstrom, developing and sharing the stories that connect its more than 60,000 employees to the company's customer-first culture. Prior to Nordstrom, she served as Executive Vice President, Communications at Alight Solutions, a private-equity backed carve-out from Aon, where she led employee engagement and communications strategy, including work supporting external and investor communications, through a series of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and a planned IPO.
Amy began her career at Aon, where she spent 18 years building global communications programs across multiple leadership roles.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Valparaiso University and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, along with a Kellogg certificate in AI Strategies for Business Transformation.