Lori Teranishi is the Founder and CEO of iQ 360, a business advisory and communications consultancy that helps organizations manage major change initiatives, protect their reputations, and advance sustainability.  iQ 360 is comprised of senior consultants, many of whom were heads of communication for global companies. The firm is headquartered in Honolulu with teams in San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C. and was recently named to the 2024 PR News Agency Elite Top 100 list.

Lori provides strategic communications counsel to global corporations, nonprofits and government agencies and combines her operating experience managing large-scale P&Ls with her track record of executing communications campaigns. She has consulted on international matters with multi-stakeholder dimensions and is frequently called upon for strategic planning, positioning, stakeholder relations, crisis response, change management and risk mitigation.

Before establishing iQ 360, Lori was vice president of product development at Visa, managing the P&L for a $50 million business unit. She was also chief of staff to the chief operating officer, where she instituted an enterprise-wide business planning process and managed corporate strategy. Prior to these roles, she headed a variety of communications roles, which spanned product, technology and CEO communications.

She holds bachelor’s degrees in mass communications and political science from the University of Utah and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. She is a Trustee with the University of Hawai‘i Foundation and former board chair for the Girl Scouts of Hawaii. Lori was named a 2024 PR News Agency CEO of the year, was a delegate for the U.S. Japan Council’s 2023 Japanese American Leadership Delegation and was named a Ragan’s PR Daily Top Women in Communication in 2020.