Glen Turpin is a gifted professional with tremendous intellectual curiousity and deep knowledge about the business he supports and the industry in which it operates.
What I do
I lead corporate, marketing, and digital communications functions for large, complex organizations.
My focus is helping businesses communicate clearly, credibly and consistently across audiences, channels, and systems. For the majority of my career, I have operated as a working leader: setting direction, advising senior executives, and staying close enough to the work to ensure strategy translates into execution.
More Details
- Leading integrated communications functions with direct senior advisory responsibility
- Designing communications strategies that support business objectives and scale operationally
- Building and managing cross-functional teams across disciplines and geographies
- Owning digital platforms and systems as long-term organizational assets
- Establishing analytics and measurement where none previously existed
- Balancing creative ambition with governance, risk, and execution discipline
Strengths
Senior communications leadership
I've led communications functions in global technology and financial services organizations, with responsibility spanning corporate, marketing, digital, and internal communications. I lead the function while remaining hands-on—setting strategy, making decisions, and engaging directly with the work when it matters.
Strategy
I work with senior leaders to create the conditions for strong execution. That means defining clear strategic direction, aligning teams around it, and putting structures in place that allow high-quality work to scale across functions and constraints.
Team and organizational leadership
I build and lead teams designed for durability, not heroics. I’ve managed cross-functional teams including communicators, marketers, designers, developers, writers and project managers, often distributed across locations and time zones. My leadership style emphasizes clarity, accountability, and sustainable pace.
Digital platforms and systems
I’ve led teams responsible for enterprise websites and internal platforms, treating them as systems for generating long-term value rather than campaigns. In many cases, I’ve implemented analytics and measurement frameworks where none previously existed.
Glen is a one-of-a-kind, outstanding PR professional who combines wit with wisdom and strategic thinking.
Glen is a brilliant strategist and was able to walk the difficult line between the need for creativity (to a design-focused audience) and the need for programs and ideas to hit a rigid bottom line. He blended solid mentorship of junior staff with ongoing management of senior company executives.
It is not often that I work with a communications professional that can meaningfully participate in discussions around technical issues, analyze them in terms of business implications, and then communicate them effectively and appropriately. Glen is one of those rare individuals.
“Going further” comes to mind when I think about Glen.
Perhaps the most impressive skill Glen possesses is his ability to receive, digest and translate reports from various stakeholders and subject matter experts in their vernacular, quickly identify what is truly important as he begins to plan and execute a crisis communication plan, all while remaining calm and clear headed.
When he ran the Interactive group at Quark, I remember observing that he could have easily done the job of anyone on the team.
Glen is a dream to work with. In his field, he's knowledgeable, professional, and responsive and is a critical thinker.
Where
This is my primary online presence, but you can also find me on LinkedIn and by email.
I keep my business profile up to date on LinkedIn. If you’re one of the people who has said nice things about my work on LinkedIn, thank you again.
Email is always an option to contact me. If you want to get my attention quickly, use LinkedIn.