Gina Laughlin
Vice President, Global Brand Communications
Delta Air Lines
Gina Laughlin leads global brand communications for Delta Air Lines at its world headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. In this role, Laughlin leads an incredible team of communications professionals who advance Delta’s reputation as an enviable employer brand and trusted consumer experience brand. Together, the team creates communications, engagement and brand strategies that promote transparency and build trust between Delta and our employees, customers, shareowners and the communities we serve.
A 20-year Delta veteran, Laughlin previously held the role of Vice President – Employee Communications, a team she designed and built during the pandemic. The award-winning team created communications strategies that informed and inspired Delta’s 100,000 employees.
A long-time champion of Delta’s enviable brand and culture, Laughlin’s career also includes a role in the HR organization during which she built the company’s first Employee Engagement team, introduced a new global recognition program and launched Delta’s first internal social media platform. She also spent three years in Delta’s flight attendant organization where she led business programs, including flight attendant hiring and onboarding, global crew layover hotels, uniforms, a peer support program, the Employee Involvement Group and Delta’s employee town hall program.
Laughlin began her Delta career in the Corporate Communications department, with experience in media relations, crisis communications, CEO communications and operations communications. She led employee communications and culture integration efforts during Delta’s merger with Northwest Airlines and also played key internal and external communication roles in the company’s bankruptcy reorganization.
Prior to joining Delta, Laughlin led executive communication, employee communication and crisis communications as General Manager – Corporate Communications for Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), a Delta subsidiary.
Laughlin began her career at Lois Paul & Partners, a Fleishman-Hillard agency.
She graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications with a dual degree in public relations and political science. She is an active member of the Public Relations Society of America and is a former PRSSA National President.
In addition to her love of airplanes and travel, Laughlin is a competitive equestrian and mom to a house full of boys – including her two-legged and four-legged “children.”
A 20-year Delta veteran, Laughlin previously held the role of Vice President – Employee Communications, a team she designed and built during the pandemic. The award-winning team created communications strategies that informed and inspired Delta’s 100,000 employees.
A long-time champion of Delta’s enviable brand and culture, Laughlin’s career also includes a role in the HR organization during which she built the company’s first Employee Engagement team, introduced a new global recognition program and launched Delta’s first internal social media platform. She also spent three years in Delta’s flight attendant organization where she led business programs, including flight attendant hiring and onboarding, global crew layover hotels, uniforms, a peer support program, the Employee Involvement Group and Delta’s employee town hall program.
Laughlin began her Delta career in the Corporate Communications department, with experience in media relations, crisis communications, CEO communications and operations communications. She led employee communications and culture integration efforts during Delta’s merger with Northwest Airlines and also played key internal and external communication roles in the company’s bankruptcy reorganization.
Prior to joining Delta, Laughlin led executive communication, employee communication and crisis communications as General Manager – Corporate Communications for Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), a Delta subsidiary.
Laughlin began her career at Lois Paul & Partners, a Fleishman-Hillard agency.
She graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications with a dual degree in public relations and political science. She is an active member of the Public Relations Society of America and is a former PRSSA National President.
In addition to her love of airplanes and travel, Laughlin is a competitive equestrian and mom to a house full of boys – including her two-legged and four-legged “children.”