Josh Morton

Josh Morton leads corporate communications for Nestlé North America, the company’s largest market in the world with nearly $30b in sales and 34,000 employees. His responsibilities include overseeing media relations, internal communications, corporate digital content and storytelling, brand PR, executive communications, crisis communications, and M&A communications. He also leads integrated communications strategy across Nestlé’s operating companies in the U.S. to tell a single story for the business in the market.

His team also communicates the company’s initiatives to make a meaningful impact on people and the planet — from its work to improve the livelihoods of more than half a million farmers to its commitments to tackle climate change and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

In both in-house and agency roles, Josh has worked with some of the world’s most iconic brands to earn trust with stakeholders and build reputations that deliver business growth. Before Nestlé, he was director of corporate communications at the Kellogg Company where he managed media relations, global issues and crisis communications, supply chain and labor relations communications. He previously co-led the Issues & Crisis Management practice at Golin, a global PR consultancy, where his clients included McDonald’s, the Florida Department of Citrus, Discover Financial Services, the Dow Chemical Company, Mead Johnson Nutrition, and Teva Pharmaceuticals. He began his career at the international PR firm Weber Shandwick.

Josh’s leadership has been recognized for building high-performing teams that deliver results. His team won the 2023 PRWeek Award for Outstanding In-House Team. He was named one of PRWeek’s 40 Under 40 and one of PRovoke Media’s Rising Stars. Josh serves on the Board of Advisors of the USC Annenberg School’s Center for Public Relations.