Kami Spangenberg is currently senior vice president Corporate Communications, Scientific Stature Services and Community Affairs for RTI International, a global independent nonprofit research institute. She refers to the three areas she leads at the institute as a trifecta of amazing departments, unified in helping the institute deliver on its mission to improve the human condition by turning knowledge into practice.

Kami has more than 30 years of communications and marketing experience and expertise in strategic communications planning, corporate branding and messaging, and issues management and crisis communications.

Prior to RTI, she worked as a change communications consultant in the energy sector, a communications principal in pharmaceutical and supply chain consulting practices, and as a global marketing director in the telecommunications field. She is most passionate about lifting people up and considers her primary role that of corporate cheerleader, believing in people and championing their dreams. Working with talented people united in service of a mission for global good fulfills Kami professionally.

That and she must laugh every single day.

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