SEASON 3, EPISODE 11. Communications and Career Chapters: Bobby Amirshahi, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Macy’s, Inc.

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In honor of Women’s History Month, we’ll be amplifying the voices and career stories of amazing female leaders throughout March with Women On Brand! Check out LeadWithYourBrand.com/WomenOnBrand for all of the incredible shows from the past three seasons.

Jayzen is excited to welcome Bobby Amirshahi to the show! Bobby is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for Macy’s, Inc and manages all communications for the entire enterprise. After an incredibly successful communications career in cable television and entertainment, Bobby made a complete industry shift when joining Macy’s. He shares a fantastic career story on how he successfully navigated the pivot (and believes that you can too), and as a communications specialist, he knows first hand the power of personal brand, and how to leverage it to advance your career.

Guest Bio

Bobby Amirshahi

Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Macy’s, Inc.

Bobby Amirshahi joined Macy’s, Inc. in December 2020 as senior vice president of corporate communications. In this role, Amirshahi leads enterprise-wide communications for the company, including crisis and issues management, media relations, colleague communications, financial communications, corporate giving and thought leadership.

Prior to Macy’s, Amirshahi served as senior vice president of corporate communications for Univision Communications Inc. where he led all external and internal corporate communications for the company, including all business-to business public relations campaigns. Previously, he served as vice president of public relations and communications at Time Warner Cable Inc. where he led communications teams charged with publicizing consumer and business products as well as financial communications and issues management. Before joining TWC, Amirshahi was senior director of public affairs at Cox Enterprises Inc.

Amirshahi began his career working in various public relations and corporate communications roles at Cox’s cable subsidiary, Cox Communications. Amirshahi also led all of West Coast publicity for Viacom’s Comedy Central and Spike TV brands out of Los Angeles.

Amirshahi earned a bachelor’s in History from The College of William & Mary in Virginia.

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