Michelle Lyng
Founder & CEO
Whether steering clients through systemic collapses, international scandals or unanticipated crises, Michelle Lyng is Colorado’s go-to communications professional, always challenging the status quo.
Michelle is the founder and CEO of Novitas Communications, an award-winning, full-service public relations firm based in downtown Denver. She founded Novitas during the Great Recession of 2008 and quickly became best known for her work in issue management, corporate communication and crisis communication in highly regulated sectors, including education, oil and gas, real estate, technology, healthcare and financial services.
Michelle has over 25 years of experience in strategic communications and reputation management, executive positioning, community engagement, issue management, corporate communication, and crisis communication. She advises a wide range of clients, from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups and nonprofits, on responding proactively and reactively to emerging communications issues. She has helped implement organization-wide communications strategies to uphold a reputation when the stakes were highest, and secured media coverage for her clients in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Reuters, USA Today, Washington Post, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, among many other national and local media outlets.
Under Michelle’s leadership, Novitas has won numerous awards, including the PR News Agency Elite Top-100 Award, the PRSA Silver Anvil Award of Excellence, the Gold Bulldog Award for Best Public Affairs Campaign, the Ragan Award for Best Public Affairs Campaign and the PRSA Colorado Chapter Gold Pick Award. Today, Novitas is ranked by O’Dwyer’s Public Relations News as the fastest-growing public relations firm in Colorado, offering innovative and strategic communications services to a wide range of national and international clients.
Michelle earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Illinois Wesleyan University.
Fun Fact: A thirteenth-generation American, Michelle’s family built the oldest wood-frame home in the United States, “The Balch House,” in Beverly, Massachusetts. It’s now a historic museum!