Shake Up Coming to The Walt Disney Company Leadership
A shake up is coming to The Walt Disney Company leadership. Here are the details.
Leadership within The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is comprised of 20 executive officers who bring experience, commitment to excellence, and a creative vision to keep the day-to-day operations of the company going strong.
Head leaders include Bob Chapek, the CEO; Alan Bergman, chairman of Disney Studios content; Rebecca Campbell, chairman of international content; and Jennifer Cohen, executive VP of of corporate social responsibility.
Then there is the board of directors who bring knowledge and perspective to guide and drive long-term value. Susan E. Arnold is chairman of the board, and there are 10 other directors.
Stepping Down
Geoff Morrell is the senior executive Vice President and chief corporate affairs officer. According to The Walt Disney Company website, in this role, Mr. Morrell is responsible for the entertainment company's Corporate Communications, Global Public Policy, Government Relations, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) teams. He assumed the newly-created role in January 2022.
Today, he stepped down in this position. In an email to his staff, he said:
After three months in this new role, it has become clear to me that for a number of reasons it is not a right fit. After talking this over with Bob, I have decided to leave the company to pursue other opportunities.
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You may remember Morrell accidentally slipped up and released the opening date for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. The tweet was deleted and official news was sent out shortly after.
The company has also endured a rocky period of time regarding Disney's response to Florida's new law. You can read the latest on that situation HERE. Is it possible some reorganization is taking place in the wake of all the media attention placed on Disney?
Stepping up
Kristina Schake, who is the current executive VP of global communication, will now lead Disney's communication efforts. General Counsel Horacio Guiterrez will lead Government Relations and Global Public Policy. Jennifer Cohen will now also report directly to Chapek as the company re-evaluates donations to political parties according to various online sources.
Seems Disney is reorganizing in order to better respond to public relations situations that my arise. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below and on Facebook.
Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
Maybe a lack of customer service is bringing down the “Disney” experience-let us all just keep spending thousands of dollars for standing in line for everything but just keep saying to ourselves that we are having a Magical time? Parks being so crowded that it gets to where you have to worry about the safety of your small child-fireworks show especially. Disney was the one who weighed into politics. Going against Parental Rights in Education and promoting gender confusion? The same activist groups Disney is speaking up for are ok with giving a young child hormone’s to stunt puberty which in a lot of cases will make them sterile or promoting operations (once you cut it off it never grows back). It actually has a name “gender affirming care”. Does sound slightly mental? But if you disagree with this agenda your considered prejudice or you have baggage? Putting your head in the sand will not lead to any improvements taking place. At least making your voice heard may. Not looking to be pandered to but being catered to as a paying customer would be great? Let’s make Disney World great again!
Geoff Morrell was key in drafting Disney's opposition to Florida's Parental Rights bill, so I am not sorry to see him go. Looking at Kristina's background, she does not appear to be any better. Only time will tell.
Disney needs to return to offering entertainment that is free of politics and sex to families. This is what made it great. The direction Disney is currently going is going to lead to its self-destruction. All they are succeeding in doing is creating hate and controversy among long-time Disney fans.
Do you all REALLY believe the 'gender identity', 'woke', or whatever prejudices you have are what is bringing down the Disney experience? Come on people, leave your baggage at home, including the politics, and wake up to Disney's real values... $$$$$$$$$$. 'Nuff said!
Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
It does maybe seem admirable that some would appear to still fully support Disney regardless of their stance against the Parental Rights in Education (a.k.a. anti-grooming bill), what looks to be pandering to certain groups while ignoring others, multiple “headliner” rides being down every day for hours, customers packed in like sardines at the parks, extremely long wait times. It does look like the only change in upper management at the moment is that senior executive Vice President and chief corporate affairs officer Geoff (he actually may have been a guy that would have had Disney going in the right direction if he was allowed to run things) will be leaving the company. His replacement Kristina will now lead Disney’s communication efforts (she was the deputy communications director for Hillary’s 2016 campaign, worked for the big guy last year to lead the coronavirus vaccination campaign at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she was counselor to secretary for strategic communications, co-founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which challenged the state’s ban on same sex marriage. Now is this change by Disney with those qualifications really going to improve the overall guest experience\relations, take it to the next level-sure seems like they are just doubling down on how they are already managing things? On another note Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea (which are not actually owned by Disney) came out with this plan to build upon and develop guest experience. Bring down the daily attendance limit (make it flexible with regard to high season, low season etc.) to offer a comfortable park environment. Flexible actions to help guests find new experience value. Reducing attendance in order to help better control required resources on an ongoing basis. Remodeling of existing facilities to increase appeal and keep the park environment consistently comfortable for guests. Now does that ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls sound like a real plan? Lets make Disney World great again-Elon Musk just maybe the change that’s needed?
Geoff was not the problem and they know it. The board makes the final call on these decisions or at least should. Any “politically charged” public position should be approved by the board. I assume it is at Disney. Iger May have earned his ability to make those kind of calls but I’m sure he would run them by the Chair or key board members first.
Was going through my 20 years of Disney”stuff”, yeah I’ve kept it all, including DVC mailers, etc. those e were the days when you got a correspondence in the mail and it was an event. So much thought and time would go into it. Not anymore. A lot has changed.
Disney needs a TOP TO BOTTOM reorganization. As a stock holder, DVC owner since 2001, and former Davy Crockett Canoe attraction host at Disneyland, I am extremely dissatisfied with the WOKENESS, marketing of sexuality (rainbow items) to children, nickle and diming, queue fiascos, and generally LESS VALUE for MORE MONEY. Things work best with the VISIONARY in charge and the money and social experts subordinate. Walt Disney once said, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible,” and NOW is the time to do it. Start from scratch.
The leadership isnt their problem. Their agenda is. All this liberal crap theyve been pushing is turning folks off in droves. Catering to one crowd is always going to be a mistake. Disney is supposed to be for children and families, not to make political statements. This isn't the vision Walt had for his creations.
they all need to review their choices in the use of pronouns, it is sick that they are trying to change what is by biology correct. they have no business in the lives of young people other than to entertain. go woke go broke