Crisis Leadership Blog
Insights and perspectives on being the lighthouse during a crisis.
Your Crisis Beach Body
The sun is shining in Austin, Texas, and many of us are thinking about plans for the beach this summer. I've written before about the notion that a healthy body is a combination of diet and exercise, and the equivalency that I see with healthy organizations, which...
The Kith Method: Why – And How – We’re Changing Direction
Loyal readers of this blog will have seen that we've spent a lot of time talking about speed, clarity, and trust recently. For us, these represent a new approach to helping organizations: less of a focus on crisis response and more on risk awareness and crisis...
Redundancy: Add Spare Capacity to Make You Faster in a Crisis
I'm fond of the old military saying: "two is one, and one is none." It reminds me to have a backup or a spare for critical equipment when I'm on the boat. I can't run to the corner store if something goes wrong when I'm at sea, so I need to be able to replace or...
Time to create good habits
I’m on my way back from Austin where I gathered with a group of female founders. We all belong to a group called Fyli (pronounced Fee-Lee). Our purpose is to support female founders as they launch their next big thing. The idea is that support must be 360 degrees....
Crisis Plans Can’t Be Time Capsules
A friend of mine just returned to his office for the first time in more than two years. It was exactly how he left it – albeit cleaner – when he abruptly left work on a Thursday afternoon in March 2020 to retrieve his sick kid from school. He stayed home with the...
By definition, Kith means a cadre of peers who shape opinions and attitudes while instilling sophisticated habits for action. As a way to live this value, we like to share resources that are building blocks to good crisis management and can help you start the path of protecting your reputation.
More Recent Insights
Preparing for Risk
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about this through the frame of crisis and crisis response and what organizations should do. In fact, I was speaking about this on a panel and was joined by an intelligence analyst.
How to Achieve Your Moon Shot in 2021
When you think of 2021, what is your personal moon shot? How about for your team or organization? And if you knew that no matter what, you wouldn’t fail, what would you do?
Be the Mast: Stability and Leadership During Crisis
Like masts, strategic communicators should not do the job alone. It’s important to know how you are supported and guyed by your team. Think of who it is that ensures you get the critical, time-sensitive information. Who are the team members you want to support you with the necessary resources, the inputs, and outputs that inform crisis response?
A Geek Leader
The ultimate podcast for aspiring leaders in the creative or technology fields. John Rouda discusses leadership topics, interviews some of the greatest minds today.
The Industrial Talk Podcast
In this week’s Industrial Talk Podcast, we’re talking to Bill Coletti, CEO at Kith.co about “Crisis Management and the Need for better Communications in your Crisis Situation”. Get the answers to your “Crisis Management” questions along with Bill’s unique insight on the “How” on this Industrial Talk interview!
Social Risk: An Emerging Threat to Reputation
We have long thought about risk as falling definitively into one of three categories: Strategic, Preventable, and External. Organizations tend to understand the impact these kinds of risks have on their operations and are pretty adept at mitigating them and responding to them. Dealing with a data breach, a failed product launch or an industrial accident...
Creating Positive University Reputation During Crises
Over the past six months, most institutions have managed to pivot their operations to deal with the pandemic. However, there probably will be more mergers in the future due to enrollment declines this year along with the upcoming enrollment cliff.
Mastering Risk Management
This episode highlights the critical need to manage a crisis. Whilst you hope to never need it, you must prepare for one regardless. My guest, Bill Coletti, helps organizations think through what they need to do to be prepared.
Manage Smarter: Coronavirus Crisis Communications
Join hosts Audrey Strong and C. Lee Smith as they speak with Kith founder Bill Coletti on Crisis Communications in the current pandemic.
Thankful in a Thankless Year
I’m thankful that so many strategic communicators and companies have recognized the critical importance of “always be communicating” with your audiences who matter most.
The Kith Method
Good crisis management comes from a plan. Great crisis management comes from capability – and starts before you even smell smoke. That’s why we developed the Kith Method. We can help build and maintain a flexible capability that works for you.
Your reputation is an investment; time-consuming and costly to build and expensive to repair. Protect it.