Welcome to episode #030 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes, Chris Anderson and Bruce Anderson. As hi-tech enters every phase of our corporate, professional, and private lives, people and organizations are exposed to problems caused by technology in the hands of others intent on causing harm. For the first time in history, we [...]

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Welcome to episode #029 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes, Captain Chris Hsiung, Tim Burrows and Louis Hayes. Law enforcement, as an industry in the United States in particular, is in the midst of a major crisis. Between what happened in Ferguson, New York, Phoenix, Cleveland, California… this crisis continues to spiral out [...]

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Welcome to episode #028 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Brigitte Stock. Countless crises cross borders. When this happens, the task of successfully managing the crisis becomes even more of a challenge. Amongst other things, successfully managing a global crisis means understanding the impact that different cultures have on your crisis communication [...]

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Welcome to episode #027 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Tony Jaques. A question I get asked often is, “what is the difference between an issue and a crisis?” It’s a common question and rightfully so as it’s an important one. Defining the difference between these two types of negative situations needs [...]

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Welcome to episode #026 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Tom Iovino. “People have to know you care before they care about what you have to say.” – Tom Iovino Public information officers and crisis communicators have critically important responsibilities in difficult times. They have (or should have) excellent communication skills, strategic [...]

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Welcome to episode #025 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Maanit Zemel Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) is a Federal legislative regime that came into force in Canada on July 1, 2014. This new anti-spam legislation applies to every person and organization communicating electronically to Canadians. This means that whether your organization is [...]

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Welcome to episode #024 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Louis Hayes Louis Hayes is a police officer in the Metropolitan Chicago area. He’s also responsible for developing The Illinois Model, which is a systematic way of looking at police operations based on solving problems. The Illinois Model takes the common threads [...]

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Welcome to episode #023 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and David Van It takes years and continual effort to build a strong reputation, and sadly, it can take mere minutes to destroy it. Social media and the online world have heightened the reputational risk that lingers and threatens today’s organizations. On the [...]

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Welcome to episode #022 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Jonathan Bernstein On this week’s episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, I continue my conversation with Jonathan Bernstein about the 30 most important lessons he’s learned in the last 30 years as a crisis management professional. We pick up where we left [...]

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Welcome to episode #021 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Jonathan Bernstein A veteran of any profession has a world of experience that others can learn and benefit from. Jonathan Bernstein is a veteran crisis management professional with 30 years of experience and first-hand lessons behind him. Within this episode of The [...]

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Welcome to episode #020 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Bill Boyd As the Ebola crisis continues to make waves in the United States and around the world, the CDC, government, hospitals and countless others are being looked to to lead the public through this epidemic. With this responsibility comes the need [...]

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Welcome to episode #019 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Dr. Thomas D. Phelan Should emergency management be defined as a field or a profession? This is an age-old question, and one that Dr. Thomas D. Phelan and I discuss in this week’s episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. While discussing this [...]

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Welcome to episode #018 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Jean-Michel Ghoussoub Everybody’s always talking about transparency. We always hear things like: You need to be transparent in the way you communicate with your stakeholders, both internal and external – both in and out of a crisis. And though this statement is [...]

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Welcome to episode #017 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Thanh Nguyen My favorite people are those self-educators who soak in knowledge and learn from anything and anyone they can, and that’s one of the things I really like about Thanh Nguyen, Fire Captain with the Garden Grove Fire Department in California. [...]

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Welcome to episode #016 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Jonathan Hemus Malaysia Airlines has suffered through two devastating and traumatic crises this year. The first was flight MH370 that disappeared without a trace while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The second, flight MH17, was shot down by a missile while [...]

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Welcome to episode #015 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Chris Syme The fact is that monitoring social media and the search engines needs to be a part of your corporate culture. It needs to be second nature and integrated into your daily (and nightly) activity. But what differs between everyday monitoring [...]

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Welcome to episode #014 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Chris Boddy Like many others, the Toronto Police Service is looking for opportunities to build efficiency and effectiveness within their agency. As a result of this, they’re doing some interesting things. For starters, they’ve developed a Strategy Management Unit with a strong [...]

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Welcome to episode #013 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Gini Dietrich Gini Dietrich is a passionate communications professional who has just launched a new book called “Spin Sucks: Communication and Reputation Management in the Digital Age”. Spin does suck and I had a blast discussing this and how to best manage [...]

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Welcome to episode #012 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Jane Jordan-Meier Jane Jordan-Meier opens this discussion with a strong statement: “A leader emerges in a crisis.” But how can you plan for a successful emergence, rather than an unsuccessful one? What are the challenges of choosing a leader or spokesperson in [...]

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Welcome to episode #011 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Tim Burrows What’s been going on in Ferguson this week is remarkable – and not in a good way. The lack of communication on behalf of the Ferguson Police Department and the St-Louis County Police Department has lead to a disastrous crisis [...]

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Welcome to episode #010 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Tegan Ford We recently heard from Professor Karen Freberg about the challenges of teaching crisis communication and designing a course that is both theoretical and practical. This week, join me as I speak with Tegan Ford, a recent graduate who now has [...]

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Welcome to episode #009 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Mike McKenna When it comes to emergency evacuation planning, what risks need to be identified and what should you actually plan for? Should every organization, even those with less catastrophic risk, include an evacuation and re-entry plan within their crisis management plan? [...]

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Welcome to episode #008 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Greg Power In this age of social media and continual distractions, story telling is an art form that can help you be heard – and remembered – through the noise. In fact, story telling should be a part of every organization’s corporate [...]

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Welcome to episode #007 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Sara Hawkins Sara Hawkins is a savvy attorney dedicated to helping the “little guys out there”. Her policy is to never say “no”, but to help her clients find the right strategies and solutions to their problems. Sara is one of those [...]

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Welcome to episode #006 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Patrice Cloutier A true apology is a very powerful thing. Especially in a crisis. It can literally mean the difference between surviving the crisis with your reputation and bottom line intact, and millions of dollars in loss of annual revenue (or your [...]

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