Vice President for CommunicationsW.K. Kellogg Foundation
Michael Murphy serves as chief of staff at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in addition to his continued leadership of the communications team. In partnership with WKKF President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron and the executive leadership team, Murphy stewards external relations, key sector engagements, enterprise-wide efforts such as the National Day of Racial Healing, and new initiatives and projects as they are designed and created across the foundation. Murphy joined WKKF in 2021 as vice president of communications.
For more than eight years, Murphy was chief marketing officer at the Cleveland Foundation, where he was responsible for providing strategic communications, public affairs, and thought leadership counsel for the world’s first community foundation. He was responsible for the foundation’s reputation and brand strategy, while leading the integrated marketing and communications team to articulate the mission, vision, values and goals of the Cleveland Foundation.