 Lisa Packer is the founding principal of RP&W. She is a former television news reporter with more than 20 years of experience in public relations, communications & marketing. She was the primary spokesperson at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant and later managed nuclear communications for Consolidated Edison of New York. She managed domestic media relations for Novartis, the Swiss-owned pharmaceutical/chemical company, and was director of communications for Tribune Company at the New York Daily News where she headed media relations and employee communications at that newspaper during a contentious and bitter labor strike. Later for The McGraw-Hill Companies in New York, Lisa directed all corporate communications for the company’s largest subsidiaries.
She has lectured on emergency communications at several universities in Pennsylvania and New York, was part of a team teaching a crisis communications seminar at LaSalle University, and co-chaired a Philadelphia regional bio-terrorism task force after the events of 9/11. Most recently, she served on a panel about crisis planning before a group of national business leaders, the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, and has spoken about reputation management to various audiences.
Packer serves on the board of the Philadelphia chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and is president of the Philadelphia Agency Leadership Council.
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