Our speaker Brett Eaton is Wake Forest University Vice President of Marketing & Communications and Chief Communications Officer.

He also serves as the executive director of the "Wake Will Lead" campaign, an effort to raise $1 billion in support of the university's mission.

Before transitioning to a career in higher education, Eaton held a variety of leadership positions within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

His impactful talk and slides presented the Pentagon recovery efforts from the 9/11 terrorist attack, for which the Secretary of Defense awarded him the Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service.