Warschawski has strong experience and expertise in the crisis communications field and has earned an outstanding reputation for creating the best possible results in situations that are exceedingly delicate and have tremendous potential to damage our clients both in the short and long term.
We have handled all shapes and sizes of crisis situations for clients ranging from large, international, publicly traded companies, to small non-profit organizations, and from higher education institutions, to individual clients.
In each situation, our job is to minimize the danger and damage a crisis situation can cause and limit the amount of attention it will get from certain audiences. What sets Warschawski apart from other agencies that work on crisis situations is that we see our role as being the strategic leader in helping resolve the issue, not simply as the communications firm hired to be the mouthpiece to the media.
Unlike other firms, we provide expert senior counsel and embrace it as our responsibility to work hand in hand with lawyers, investigators, boards of directors, executive teams and other parties to ensure that we get the best result for our clients' behalf to ensure that the issue is resolved holistically, with the best overall outcome in mind, not just the best communications outcome in mind.
Some of the services that Warschawski offers crisis communications clients include:
- Top-level senior counsel on how to strategically resolve the scenario to best effect
- All levels of media relations surrounding crisis communications
- Internal organizational/staff communications and core constituency communications
- Media training of spokespeople
- Speech writing for CEO announcements, op-ed writing, and letter writing
- Monitoring media and core constituency activities to gauge when to take or not take action
Some highlights of crisis work our team has conducted include:
- Product malfunction cases with potential for massive product recall or product boycotting
- Wrongful death scenario and the possibility of legal action
- Numerous and varied CEO/senior management crises ranging from CEO termination and CEO integrity issues, to SEC and governmental compliance issues
- Major staff layoffs, restructuring, plant closings, outsourcing of jobs outside the U.S.
- Personal reputation issues
- Illegal or perceptually illegal actions by individuals or leadership within an organization
- IPO preparation and quiet period compliance issues, M&A prep and integration work
- Questionable and/or illegal SEC compliance issues
