Gina Pesko Laughlin

Gina Laughlin leads Delta’s employee communications strategy as Vice President at the airline’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. In this role, Laughlin leads an incredible team of communications professionals who inform and inspire Delta people to be their very best for our customers. Together, they create communications and engagement strategies and tactics that promote transparency and build trust among employees and leaders.

A long-time champion of Delta’s enviable culture, Laughlin’s career also includes a role in the HR organization during which she built the company’s first Employee Engagement team, including the company’s global recognition programs, employee engagement survey, employee-funded Care and Scholarship 501(c)(3) organizations, and HR Communications. In that role, her team launched Delta’s first internal social media platform. She also spent three years in Delta’s flight attendant organization where she led business programs that were driven by frontline employee participation, including flight attendant hiring and onboarding, global crew layover hotels, uniforms, a peer support program, the Employee Involvement Group and Delta’s employee town hall program.

Laughlin began her Delta career in the Corporate Communications department, with experience in media relations, crisis communications, CEO communications and operations communications. She led employee communications and culture integration efforts during Delta’s merger with Northwest Airlines and also played key internal and external communication roles in the company’s bankruptcy reorganization.

Prior to joining Delta, Laughlin led executive communication, employee communication and crisis communications as General Manager – Corporate Communications for Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), a Delta subsidiary.
Laughlin began her career at Lois Paul & Partners, a Fleishman-Hillard agency.

She graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications with a dual degree in public relations and political science. She is an active member of the Public Relations Society of America and is a former PRSSA National President.

In addition to her love of airplanes and travel, Laughlin is a competitive equestrian and mom to a house full of boys – including her two-legged and four-legged “children.”