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A Fortune 500 Senior Executive with a proven track record for strategic partnership development focused on driving incremental growth, organizational scalability, and increased partner satisfaction. A highly collaborative and analytical leader with success in designing and implementing both Multi and Omni channel business strategies.
Recognized for building award winning, cross-functional, global teams that consistently exceed financial targets while advancing the organization’s mission. Specializing in high growth industries and transformation management. Known as an inclusion-minded leader who inspires and motivates organizations for high performance. At Sonoco, a global leader of diversified consumer, industrial, healthcare, and protective packaging, Christy leads marketing and communication strategy around the world.
Her personal passion for patient advocacy in healthcare comes from her experience during her daughter’s diagnosis with a rare immunological condition, ADEM, in 2009. Just one year later, she found herself on the front lines with families fighting to be heard by the physicians to whom they entrust their lives.
Holding a Bachelor of Arts in both English and Psychology from Clemson University, Thompson also obtained a prost graduate Diploma in Corporate Sustainability from Furman University, and a certificate of Excellence in Authentic Leadership at Harvard Business School. Thompson is a Diversity Fellow of The Riley Institute, holds a Certificate of Distinction from the Women’s Leadership Institute, is a Bon Secours St Francis Fellow, and a 2019 Liberty Fellow of the South Carolina based Aspen Global Leadership Fellowship.
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