CHICAGO — Amy Colton has stepped down from her role leading Current Global’s North America business to lead communications for Northwestern University’s business school.

“After 15 years at Current Global I am making a pivot and have been named Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for the Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management. I feel so fortunate to have the opportunity to take on this incredibly exciting new role, and I am so grateful for all of the mentors, colleagues, clients, and friends who have helped me forge my path throughout my career,” Colton wrote in a LinkedIn post. “If I tagged everyone it would be completely obnoxious – way too many alerts for the very large group to whom I owe so much.”


Reporting to the Kellogg dean as part of the senior leadership team, Colton is tasked with setting the strategic communications and marketing agenda for the school.

Leading the integrated marketing and communications function, she is responsible for stewarding the Kellogg brand, including degree program marketing, internal and external communications, special events, and corporate engagement to advance Kellogg’s reputation as a premier, global business school

Colton was named Current Global’s president of North America in April 2021 after 13 years with the firm and its predecessor, Current Marketing.

She had been the firm’s general manager of North America since 2019, when IPG merged US-based Current Marketing and Weber Shandwick unit Creation into a new entity, Current Global. Before then, she was part of Current’s leadership team as an executive VP.


In her post Colton wrote, “I am finding myself back on campus in Evanston decades after my very first job out of college, which I got after literally cutting out a want ad in the Chicago Tribune for a designer/editor position at Northwestern. Who knew that a husband and three kids later I would be back here down the street — just as I become an empty nester!”