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To Improve Crisis-Response Plans, Bring in a Red Team

PRSay

In today’s unforgiving media environment, decades’ worth of arduous work to build a strong reputation can be destroyed in less than a week. Media fires that communicators could have doused before the 6 o’clock news, even a decade ago, can now erupt into global conflagrations, thanks to smartphones and social media.

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Why Business Students Should Learn Strategic Communications

PRSay

Warren Buffett famously said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”. With that sage advice, it comes as a surprise that only six percent of MBA programs require any communications courses. However, reputation management is more than a CEO responsibility. But content variety remains.”.

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Our Team

Reputation Us

Before forming ReputationUs, Casey was president of LT Public Relations, directing the strategic communications efforts for corporations, financial institutions and public sector clients. Additionally, Hanson is heavily involved in nonprofit work as the recent Past President of the Docent Council at the Portland Art Museum.

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The Value of Strategic Communications in the PRSA MBA/Business School Program

PRSay

Nearly a decade ago, the PRSA Foundation sponsored research that found only 23 percent of graduate business schools consistently provide instruction in reputation management, corporate communications and related ethical dimensions. She also employs nonprofit organization examples and often draws on other WVU faculty.

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McKinsey’s Cautionary Tale for Communicators

PRSay

We move so quickly, and electronic communication has become so ubiquitous, that we often don’t slow down long enough to consider what our advice or commentary might look like if taken out of context or viewed by someone hostile to us or our client. It certainly does reputationally. How do your words make you look as a person?

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Behind the Headlines With Travis Taylor

Cision

After I graduated, Safety Center Incorporated, the Sacramento, California nonprofit behind the initiative, hired me to implement the plan. Everything we do, from multicultural engagement and community building to corporate communications, reputation management and crisis communications, is built on the foundation of our “Brand PR” approach.

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Behind the Headlines With Kathy Walsh

Cision

Our talented leadership team—among the best with whom I’ve ever worked–also positions us well to serve clients, both proactively and reactively, in building, strengthening and defending their reputations. ” What are some of the differences in building a marketing strategy for a large company versus a small startup or nonprofit?

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