Crisis Leadership Blog
Insights and perspectives on being the lighthouse during a crisis.
Beware the Ripples: Sometimes These Are Signs of an Incoming Wave
Last week, executives from all the big oil companies gave sworn testimony to a Congressional committee. Under oath, they were asked if their companies knew that their products contributed to climate change and how long they had known this. Everywhere you turned, the...
Why We Only Do One Thing
When I first started doing crisis management, someone asked me what kind of crisis I handled. I thought that to be an odd question. If you are a patent lawyer, you handle patents not just left-pawed blue schnauzers. If you are a neonatal nurse, you take care of...
Why I Joined Kith
We were delighted to welcome Stephanie Craig on board to be our VP of Consulting this August. This is the first of a series of posts in which Stephanie reflects on her first 60 days, shares her thoughts on crises, and, in this case, explains why she left her own...
Why crisis leadership isn’t the same as crisis management (It’s way more)
A big mistake we see everywhere is thinking that experience in a role or time-served automatically makes you a leader in that space. This thinking mistakes the fundamental difference between management and leadership: one is focused on what needs to be done, whereas...
Meet Your Maker(s): How Communicators Can Work With Operations
Critical Takeaways The two fundamental roles in American corporations are makers - such as operations - and sellers - like communications. It's essential to maintain a direct linkage between the two as they work better together. When working with operations,...
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
After the Crisis: Adapting to your New Normal
Critical Takeaways Critical moments and crises transform organizations and that requires CEOs and executives to adapt to a new normal. This change takes time and requires a transition period while you simultaneously manage routine operations and the after-effects of the crisis. The key thing is to accept and embrace the new normal, not to ignore or try to...
Business Owners Radio: Why Reputation Management is the new competitive advantage
Bill Coletti, Founder and CEO of crisis communications and reputation management firm Kith, shares insights from his best-selling book Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. Learn the behaviors that help the most effective leaders... LISTEN NOW
Webinar: Reputation Management Councils: A High Impact Approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcpp8aU_1Xw&t=140s Is your organization truly prepared to mitigate reputational risks? Organizations that meet regularly and create an enterprise-wide view of reputation impacting risks are much more effective at managing a crisis and can sometimes avoid them entirely. In this month’s on-demand webinar, Reputation...
Be Real Show Podcast :Bill Coletti gets REAL about Crisis
In this episode of the Be Real Show, Travis is joined by Bill Coletti, a reputation management expert, and they discuss what can happen to your business in crisis and the steps of what you should do first. They talk about the evolution of AI vs the need for critical thinking. LISTEN HERE
Getting to the Point: The Value of Quick Start Simulations
Immediately highlight the areas for attention to help organizations transform and become truly crisis resilient.
Active CEO Podcast: Bill Coletti Reputation Resilience And Transformation
On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Bill Coletti about reputational resilience and transformation, crisis preparation, opportunities that arise from adversity, and the 7 Levers of Reputation from the book Critical Moments. We also delve into being involved in political campaigns and elections, Bills time in Bulgaria as CEO of...
“All-in” Bets Can Ruin Reputations
Critical Take-Aways All-in bets make for dramatic spectacles in poker, particularly when the player is risking everything on a bluff. People who have made mistakes might also double down on their denials and counter-attacks: they go all-in on the cover-up. This damages them more than the original charge when the truth comes out and drags others down with...
Breaking Bad News: Crisis tactics with reputation management expert Bill Coletti
It’s a special episode of Breaking Bad News as host Jeff Hahn welcomes crisis communications and reputation management expert Bill Coletti. Jeff talks to Bill about his recent book, Critical Moments, where he reveals how organizations can build reputational excellence by meeting the needs and expectations of the public. Jeff and Bill also look in depth at...
Vitamin Lead: Reputation Management with Bill Coletti
Vitamin Lead: Your healthy dose of leadership. Listen in as we interview Bill Coletti, Founder and CEO of Kith. His work revolves around preparing and advising companies for crisis situations and in how to improve reputation. Check out Bill's book and other resources at www.criticalmomentsbook.com LISTEN HERE
Transformation: Start With Small Steps
Critical Takeaways A recent Kith post urged organizations to transform in order to become risk resilient, rather than just taking small, incremental steps improving what’s already in place. Some readers felt that this was unrealistic and wondered if taking small steps would still generate improvement. Any small improvement is worthwhile and transformation...
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.