Laura Hastings-Brooks

Laura Hastings-Brooks is the chief strategy and communications officer of OCHIN. In her role, she unites and guides OCHIN’s strategic business planning, brand strategy development, and content marketing teams. Her leadership brings together business planners, corporate storytellers, media strategists, and digital marketers to develop strategies and stories that connect colleagues, members, partners, and advocates to OCHIN’s health equity mission and its role as a trusted innovation partner and health equity catalyst.   

An expert in her field, Laura brings over 25 years of experience leading business transformation, corporate communications, organizational development, and marketing teams for IBM, Tektronix, PacifiCorp, and Kaiser Permanente. Her broad background includes serving as a broadcast news reporter, global content marketing leader, executive speechwriter, and chief communications and business adviser to transformational leaders in the public and private sector. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Oregon and continues to advance today’s communications, marketing, and business strategy disciplines by serving as a mentor to others and a speaker at regional and national conferences.