Stephanie Craig
President of Kith, Crisis Management Expert, Keynote SpeakerCrisis management expert Stephanie Craig is a prolific speaker and author on topics including crisis vigilance, reputational management, and leadership communications. She frequently serves as a keynote speaker in venues ranging from national conferences to podcasts, where she shares valuable insights and lessons learned from the crisis preparedness and management landscape.
Recent live speaking engagements
Recent Podcast appearances
- Professionally Speaking Podcast
- The Banker Next Door
- The Profit Minds Podcast
- Changing Higher Ed
- Mastering Risk Management
- The Secret Thoughts of CEOs
- Business Office Reset
- CEO Thinking
- Leadership Levers
- Higher Ed Conversations
- The Safehouse Initiative Podcast
- The Resilient Journey
- The PIO Podcast
- The Leader’s Mindset
- Weather Heroes
About Stephanie
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. Combining her deep experience in politics, media and business, she mitigates crises, repairs reputations and inoculates against future reputation damage.
In her career, Stephanie has guided media organizations, Fortune 50 tech companies and members of the House and Senate in the United States and Canada through some of their most trying days. She sharpened her crisis skills on several campaigns including three presidentials. She is a battleground specialist and likely the only person to have worked in both houses on Capitol Hill and Parliament Hill.
Stephanie has counted former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the mayor of the nation’s 10th largest city and some of the most notable global brands as clients. When not handling crises, Stephanie supports causes she cares about by helping to establish the groundbreaking group — I Am ALS and chairing the Force to End Harassment in Advocacy as an effort during the #Metoo movement.
See Stephanie’s SpeakerHub profile here.
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Crisis Leadership Blog
Real, actionable insights from elite crisis response and reputation management professionals on topics at the intersection of communications and higher education.
How Colleges and Universities Can Handle Reputational Risk Better
Higher education is seemingly in an increasingly perilous spot. As the job market shifts — 47 to 54% of jobs will likely be lost to automation by 2030, or roughly 800 million jobs globally, according to McKinsey Global Institute — higher ed also needs to reinvent...
Far from a Textbook Year for Higher Ed Leaders
Thousands of colleges and universities around the nation are back in full swing for a new academic year, my daughter among them (Sko Buffs!). The beginning of a new college semester heralds many things on college campuses. The sight of students burning the midnight...
Holding Statements: What Are They and Why Are They Critical to Effective Crisis Response
Speech is silver, silence is golden. According to this proverb, saying nothing is more valuable than saying something, even if the something itself has value. As a crisis management expert, I believe those are backward, and I’d add one more phrase to the proverb:...
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