Michelle Johnson Delery
Council Member, Women United Global Leadership Council
Vice President of Corporate Internal and External Communications at Entergy
Michelle Johnson Delery serves as vice president of corporate internal and external communications within the corporate affairs and communications team at Entergy, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans that powers life for 3 million customers across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
In her current role, she advises executive leadership on communications strategy planning, financial, national and trade media relations; web communications; employee communications; event management; national and regional sponsorships; graphic design; video and multimedia production.
She joined Entergy in 1999 as a communications specialist handling internal and external communications for the company’s local New Orleans subsidiary. Since moving to the parent company in 2001, she has served in different roles with increasing responsibility.
During her career at Entergy, she has played a critical role in directing customer and employee communications strategy during major crises and companywide change initiatives including storm events like hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the 2005 implementation of the company’s long-term healthcare strategy, various mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, companywide reorganizations, and the successful launch of a revised company brand identity and platform in 2022.
Prior to joining Entergy, she was a communications and events coordinator at Hibernia National Bank. She also previously served as an adjunct professor and curriculum committee member for the Media Arts program at Tulane University’s School of Continuing Studies.
She is a New Orleans native and holds an MBA from Tulane University, M.A. in Mass Communications from Loyola University, and a B.A. in Advertising/Journalism from Louisiana State University.
She is a member of the Ragan Communications Leadership Council and sits on the boards of Dress for Success New Orleans, The Donnelly Center for Nonprofit Communications at Loyola University, the PR Daily Communications Week Advisory Board and Connect Missions. In addition to serving on the board of trustees of the United Way of Southeast Louisiana, she chairs that organization’s local Women United group. In 2025, she was also named to the board of the Women United Global Leadership Council.
In 2021, she was named to the Communications Hall of Fame by Ragan Communications and PR Daily. She has also received numerous awards during her career for PR excellence from the Public Relations Society of America, PR Week Magazine and MarComm.
She is the co-owner of UpLIFT NOLA, a yoga, meditation, art and wellness studio in Algiers Point New Orleans, and she holds a 200-hour RYT certification from the Shanti Yoga Training School, as well as specialty yoga certifications in inclusive and chair yoga focused on populations with limited mobility.
Michelle has been married to Alan Delery since 1995 and they have three adult sons: Adam, Seth and Shane, and one granddaughter Audrey Rose.