Chris Labash teaches communications, innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship in Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, and also regularly serves as a faculty advisor for student capstone projects.
Prior to joining the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 2003, he was Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director at Ketchum Advertising, Vice President of Global Marketing at Development Dimensions International, a management consultant, and a branding consultant with venture capital firms and founders and management teams at FreeMarkets (now part of Ariba), and many other companies.
He has worked with clients as diverse as Cisco, Digital Equipment, Hanes, Heinz, Mellon Financial, Nabisco Lifesavers, PNC Bank, Victoria’s Secret, and Westinghouse.
In 2006 he co-founded, with Carnegie Mellon colleague Ed Barr, Linchpin Learning, a communications training consultancy. His research interests focus on virtual communication, on how forms of electronic engagement apply to different audiences, on how future technologies will impact the dynamics of workforce communication, and on innovation.
