About Us
Kith is an elite crisis management firm. All we do is crisis.kith
/kiTH/ noun
A cadre of peers who shape opinions and attitudes while instilling sophisticated habits for action.
From Old English cȳthth (“acquaintance” or “kinship”), of Proto-Germanic origin kunþiþō (“knowledge”)
Who we are
We help our clients to prepare for, manage, and navigate through high-profile issues and crises with the goal of preserving and enhancing reputations.
We go beyond telling you the tactics and messages you need to use to respond to a crisis – we help you lead the way.
The crucible of a crisis does not develop your skill set. It reveals it.
Kith is an elite crisis preparation, response and recovery firm focused on one thing: your reputation. We have decades of experience with clients ranging from large corporations to medium-sized businesses to non-profits and trade associations.
We have served clients in a wide range of industries including agriculture, aviation, child care, energy, food service, government contracting, health care, higher education, hospitality and entertainment, law, manufacturing, occupational licensing, professional sports and telecommunications.
But we’re more than just crisis communications consultants. Many other crisis firms parachute in, tell you what to do and parachute out. We immediately become part of your team, and we care for our clients at a personal level in addition to a professional one. We not only advise on response strategy but also coach executives to lead their teams during crisis.
And our insights and recommendations go beyond the crisis at hand. Many of our tools and practices apply in non-crisis situations. We are gratified that our clients continue to use our methods and insights long after our engagement is over.
Response alone is not enough
No bulletproof reputation was ever built on crisis response alone. Companies can either stumble from one crisis to the next, or they can take steps to make their reputation resilient. You must also know your risks, anticipate potential pitfalls and recognize when smoke may become fire. Remember, the easiest crisis to respond to is the one that didn’t happen.
Kith didn’t come in and tell us, ‘Here’s our formula. Here’s the playbook.’ Instead, the relationship that we’ve built with Kith has been much more with them personally in the room, and us learning. Them being in the foxhole with us, personally, is what makes working with them so rewarding.
Our Executive Leadership Team
Stephanie
Craig
Chief Executive Officer
Stephanie Craig has built her reputation as a crisis expert by guiding some of the world’s most prominent people and organizations through their most trying moments. Before Kith, Stephanie founded the Apeiron Strategy Group where she counted former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and the mayor of the nation’s 10th largest city as clients.
Megan Swiatkowski
Head of Growth
Meg Swiatkowski is a growth and communications leader with more than a decade of experience across marketing, communications, operations, sales, and sales enablement. Meg has held roles at Pinpoint Targeting, Rational 360, NLX, Amazon, POLITICO, and Axios, and is the author of Unreported: A Media Relations Guide to Killing Stories.
Jeff
Blaylock
Vice President of Client Service
With nearly 30 years of strategic communications, crisis management, and public affairs experience, Jeff Blaylock has advised clients from small businesses to Fortune 10 corporations across multiple industries to successfully navigate challenging media environments, political campaigns and reputation-impacting crises.
Bill
Coletti
Founder and Advisor Emeritus
Bill Coletti is a crisis communications and reputation defense expert, keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panelist, and best-selling author of Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for global clients.
Elizabeth
Stewart
Vice President of Marketing & Operations
Beth Stewart is a marketing communications and operations strategist with experience helping professional services firms, startups, and small businesses strengthen their brand and accelerate their growth through strategic communications, marketing, business development, and operational execution.
How we help
As an executive, you know that a crisis will happen – it’s a matter of when, not if. The Kith team partners with your executives to guide you through the entire course of a crisis to help you preserve your valuable reputation.
PREPARE
We help organizations diagnose, prepare for crisis and manage risk. We are committed to helping our clients develop best-in-class crisis capability that produces an informed and instinctive response to reputational threats. We do this with the Kith Method.
RESPOND
When you find yourself in the middle of a storm, we will be with you every step of the way. Our elite crisis professionals advise your leadership team on a response and recovery strategy, identifying risks and providing elite counsel to guide you through the fire and back to business.
RECOVER
The recovery strategy starts the minute we get involved because the road back runs right through the crisis. Getting you back to business is the top priority, but every crisis provides lessons to build on.
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