Angela Funaro

About Angela Funaro

Executive leader and advisor for organizations rooted in ethics and transparency that embrace accountability, social responsibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion. I foster collaboration and trust, communicating effectively, honestly, and safely as a team player and coach. I seek to educate, inspire, and express gratitude with stories of resilient and tenacious visionaries and innovators, and I enjoy opportunities to contribute my strategic-level experience, talents, emotional intelligence, and sound judgment to solve big problems. My experiences include-Building and leading executive communications teams to inform, educate, and influence public attitudes and behaviors to coalesce and cooperate with the organization\'s mission and initiatives -Assisting C-Suite level executive group develop thought leadership and crisis management and response -Building and leading diverse, decentralized, and geographically dispersed teams in the execution and oversight of strategic projects and tactical execution -Integrating multinational, cross-functional, and multi-industry communications campaigns -Driving and improving employee, customer, and influencer relations -Leading public, media, stakeholder, and government outreach and engagement -Corporate, executive, and employee internal communications -Supporting HR to promote DEI and shape organizational cultural change to recognize and reward programs that attract and retain talent -Promoting corporate consciousness and social responsibility -Content strategy and development -Creating brand identity and launches -Event marketing and fundraising strategy -Digital storytelling -Web optimization, automation, metrics, and analytics -Talent recruitment, development, incentivizing, and reward -Organizational, cultural, and operational design

Experience

1. Functional and Employee Communications Manager

   Northrop Grumman

   Jun 2022 — Present · Palmdale, CA, US

   Principal strategic advisor for Northrop Grumman\'s Aeronautics Systems\' employee experience center of practice. Leads, develops, and motivates a team of communications professionals across a broad array of critical functions such as operations, engineering, human relations, business management and development, mission assurance, global supply chain, enterprise information services, research and development, legal affairs, and program management. Develops, implements, and measures omni-channel employee and functional communications that inform and inspire employees and partners to achieve business goals and priorities. Prepares and releases executive and change communications reflective of NG\'s corporate vision and values. Supports executive leadership by coordinating and preparing announcements, webcasts, videos, presentations, talking points, speeches, executive summaries, and content for internal websites. Collaborates with the HR DEI teams and employee resource groups to develop and execute promotions that engender unity and a spirit of belonging. Solicits, packages, and publicizes motivating and uplifting employee profiles and testimonials for internal and external web and print content. Collects and analyzes data that measures the effectiveness of communications and employee advocacy campaigns and makes recommendations to improve practices and processes. Serves as co-lead in sector-level crisis communications planning and response, inclusive of sector COVID-19 and emergency communications.

Education

• The United States Army War College

  Master of Science in Strategic Studies, International Relations and National Security Studies

  2016 — 2017

• U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

  Military Joint Operations Planning and Strategy

  2010 — 2010

• Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University

  National Security and Strategic Studies

  2012 — 2012

• University of Washington

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  1990 — 1994

• Defense Information School

  COMMUNICATION, JOURNALISM, AND RELATED PROGRAMS

  2003 — 2003