Crisis and Reputation – November 2011
Date: November 18
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Venue: The Wheeler Centre - 176 Lt Lonsdale St
Keen to build on your crisis management skills?
Learn how to prepare for and respond to a communications crisis or conflict situation. Join us for lunch on November 18 and hear two of Australia’s leading media and crisis experts explore the lessons learned from high profile media dramas like the Qantas dispute, the GASP “bad service” email and the controversial Gunns Pulp Mill.
Barbara Sharp, the director and founder of Pax Populus has spent more than 20 years advising ministers, governments, statutory bodies and major corporations on how to prepare for and handle major public issues. Pax Populus is a communications and conflict resolution consulting company specialising in high stakes reputational risk projects. Barbara is experienced in issues management and crisis communications and has prepared numerous strategies for high-profile issues, often in the face of legal action and public interest campaigns.
Sam North is the media director at Ogilvy Public Relations. A former managing editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, Sam has more than 30 years experience in media and management. His role involves providing advice on media engagement, crisis and issues management. Past clients include Ford Australia, Microsoft, Toshiba and Unilever. Sam has prepared clients to handle both potentially damaging and advantageous circumstances including an appearance before a Senate committee and interviews with journalists on national television news programs.
Cost: $50 for IABC Victoria members, $75 for non members.