Judith Harrison

Judith Harrison is senior vice president, Diversity & Inclusion at Weber Shandwick. She drives programs designed to build a multicultural workforce that leverages diverse perspectives to create breakthrough solutions for clients in an inspiring, collaborative, high-performance workplace. Judith develops strategic plans, drives the sharing of best practices globally, partners with diversity leadership development and professional organizations to increase awareness of Weber Shandwick’s commitment to diversity, and leads innovative initiatives to build a strong talent pipeline while strengthening employee engagement in embedding diversity & inclusion into the agency’s culture and work.

In addition to human resources and recruiting experience, Judith’s background includes communications positions and projects at Burson-Marsteller, Ernst & Young, CBS, Media General, Random House, and the Italian Trade Commission.

Since joining Weber Shandwick in 2006, Judith has guided the firm to recognition as a champion of diversity and inclusion, with honors including the PRWeek/PR Council Diversity Distinction in PR Awards in 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016, and the 2016 PR News Diversity Heroes Award as an Organization of the Year.       

Judith has been listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. She was awarded the 2011 STAR Award by New York Women’s Agenda, was named as one of Savoy’s Top Influential Women in Corporate America in 2012 and 2014, and was honored with the 2016 PR News Diversity Heroes Award as an Individual of the Year.

Judith served the PR Council as chair of its HR Roundtable for three years. She is president of the PRSA Foundation, and president-elect of New York Women in Communications. Judith also serves on the 4A’s Diversity Steering Committee, as well as on the advisory boards of ColorComm and the Ron Brown Scholar Program.