Janet Helm
Consultant, Food at the Helm
Janet Helm is a registered dietitian and culinary professional with 20+ years PR agency experience helping food and beverage brands and agricultural commodity boards intersect with food culture, tell their story, engage stakeholders and deploy influencers.
As the former Chief Food and Nutrition Strategist for Weber Shandwick, she’s helped turn milk from a commodity to a brand with the iconic got milk? milk mustache campaign, helped tart cherries burst out of the pie shell and onto the superfruit stage, and repositioned pork as “the other white meat” and a lean, center-of-the plate star.
As an experienced food and nutrition strategist and marketer, Janet recently started her own consultancy Food at the Helm. She is a sought-after speaker on food trends at national conferences and has discussed the latest nutrition topics in the media, including segments on Good Morning America, Today and CNN.
She is a former media spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a recipient of the Academy’s Media Excellence Award. As a contributing writer, her work has appeared in Health, Cooking Light, Chicago Tribune, U.S. News & World Report, WebMD and Huffington Post.
