As director of organizational advancement, Chris Wylie ensures alignment between Healthy Minds’ internal processes and external impact.

Chris’ responsibilities include operations, communications, fundraising, and strategy. Working closely with the executive director, Chris articulates Healthy Minds’ objectives and accomplishments in ways that resonate with community partners, clients, and funders.

Before Healthy Minds, Chris was vice president of communications at the Tulsa Regional Chamber, where he led the implementation of marketing and public relations strategies for the organization’s economic development, diversity and inclusion, and legislative advocacy initiatives. Before that, Chris worked at the Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH as an assignment editor, planning producer and multimedia journalist.

Chris is an alumnus of Leadership Tulsa 360 (class 56) and past board chair of the Tulsa Global Alliance.

A lifelong Tulsan, Chris is a citizen of the Osage Nation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and Middle East studies from the University of Arkansas.