Susanne Deegan

Susanne is a Senior Advisor at Perceptual Advisors and a veteran strategic communications counselor to C-suites and senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies. She has extensive experience developing strategic communications programs related to CEO positioning, brand reputation and business operations, labor relations, and crisis preparedness and response.

Before starting Chase Strategies, Ms. Deegan spent over a decade at Teneo, the CEO advisory company where she counseled clients across a broad spectrum of issues and led cross-functional teams that include investor relations, management consulting, governance, media, public affairs, digital and social media strategy and corporate reputation. She worked on high-profile issues for clients including M&A, workforce engagement, DE&I, emerging markets, crisis and litigation support.

Before going to Teneo, Ms. Deegan worked at Burson-Marsteller, where she helped to launch and grow Burson-Marsteller’s Labor and Workforce Relations sub-practice. In that capacity, she counseled clients on developing and executing strategic communications programs to help protect their brand reputation and business operations during collective bargaining or corporate campaigns, employee communications strategies, and crisis preparedness and response.

She has worked with companies and trade associations in the aerospace and defense, cannabis, electronics, consumer products, energy, elevator, gaming, hospitality, higher education, newspaper, steel, supermarket, tire, transportation and textile industries.

From 2007-2010, she worked at the Washington D.C-based Public Affairs Firm, The Harbour Group, where she counseled clients on industrial relations issues, shareholder proxy battles, and foreign investment in the U.S.

Ms. Deegan received her bachelor’s degree in communications and advertising from Johnson & Wales University.