2025 Speakers

Rachel Rosenblatt is a Senior Managing Director in the Strategic Communications segment of FTI Consulting and Head of the Americas Retail & Consumer Products sector. Ms. Rosenblatt specializes in reputation management, crisis communications, corporate positioning and communications training.

Ms. Rosenblatt has more than 20 years of experience providing strategic communications counsel, media relations, media training, presentation coaching, crisis management, corporate communications and public relations expertise to her clients. She works with some of the world’s most recognizable companies in the retail and consumer space to help them tell their stories more effectively, often in times of crisis or transformation. She has specific expertise in developing and executing multidisciplinary communications campaigns to impact multiple stakeholder groups in a meaningful way. Additionally, Ms. Rosenblatt works with companies through all phases of their life cycle, from IPOs to building and molding reputation, managing moments of crisis or change and supporting through litigation, bankruptcies or restructurings.

Ms. Rosenblatt is also a founding member of the firm’s Communications Training team and has designed and implemented media, presentation and investor relations training programs for multinational companies that have been executed around the world. As one of the firm’s senior trainers, she regularly coaches top executives in advance of media interviews, investor and analyst meetings, IPOs and major presentations.

Ms. Rosenblatt was ranked in the Top 10 of The Consulting Report’s 2024 list of the Top Consumer and Retail Consultants and Leaders, and was also named to Crain’s New York Business’s 2023 list of notable leaders in advertising, marketing and PR. In addition, she was honored as one of the 2023 Women Leaders in Consulting by Consulting Magazine and was PR Daily’s 2024 Communicator of the Year.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting in 2005, Ms. Rosenblatt was a Director at Westhill Partners, a boutique consulting firm specializing in communications strategy. She is a member of the Belizean Grove, a global group of female leaders, and is an active member of the Lenox Hill Hospital Auxiliary and chair of its communications committee. Ms. Rosenblatt graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in psychology.