Ben LaBolt

Ben LaBolt is the President of Bully Pulpit International (BPI), the two-time PRovoke Media Global Public Affairs Agency of the Year and PRWeek’s 2025 Public Affairs Agency of the Year. Ben serves as a communications, marketing and global public affairs strategist, a thought partner for BPI’s clients and a representative of its point of view in public engagements around the world.

Ben served as White House Communications Director from 2023 through the end of President Biden’s term. In this role, he ran the communications at the White House and across the executive branch of the federal government. Ben served as a Senior Advisor to President Biden and led communications for the largest organization in the U.S., breaking down the walls between communications, digital and media relations and transitioning the administration closer to a content-first ecosystem.

Ben is a globally recognized communications and public affairs strategist. He brings deep experience advising high growth startups, CEOs, Fortune 50 companies and major foundations. Ben advises top organizations and leaders on how to transform their communications to adapt to the contemporary and constantly evolving media landscape, communicate their values to their stakeholders and strengthen their reputation. He has led transformational engagements for some of the most prominent brands in the technology, health care, telecommunications, food and transportation sectors.

For over two decades, Ben has served as a communications and public affairs strategist at the city, state, and national level. He has worked in the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and Obama and Biden White Houses. He was the national press secretary for President Obama’s re-election campaign, press secretary for Sherrod Brown’s first winning campaign for Senate, communications director for Rahm Emanuel’s campaign for Chicago Mayor and White House spokesman for the efforts to confirm Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. He served as an advisor to the Biden-Harris transition team and the Nomination Advisor for Communications for the effort to confirm Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

He has been recognized as the Honorable Mention for PRWeek’s Outstanding Agency Professional and was named to PRWeek’s 40 Under 40 list of leaders who “get results, never settle and represent the future of communications.” Ben was ranked 15th on PRWeek’s Power List of the most powerful people in communications.

When he’s not on a plane, Ben resides in San Francisco. He is a native of LaGrange, IL, and a graduate of Middlebury College.

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