Safeguarding Reputation, Brand & Valuation
A leading expert in crisis and reputational risk management, Zumwalt Strategies specializes in devising data-driven strategy to mitigate complex, high-risk issues in a rapidly evolving external environment.
Strategic counsel and planning
Readiness
Reputational risk assessment
Business intelligence and opposition research
Digital auditing and intelligence
Rapid response readiness
Influencer and detractor analysis and mapping
Online forensics
Risk-specific readiness planning
Message and content development
Media Training
Ally building
Services
Crisis and reputational risk management
Stakeholder engagement
Earned media
Digital communications. including SEO/SEM, micro targeting, community management
Paid media
Monitoring, analytics and reporting across earned, owned and paid media + search, with real-time capability as needed
Why guess…
When you can know.
Zumwalt Strategies is a trusted advisor in crisis and reputational risk management, helping organizations mitigate complex, high-risk situations with clarity and precision. In a rapidly evolving and escalating environment, we bring a data and insights-driven strategic approach to identify how to cut through the noise to reach and mobilize target audiences.
Known for our expertise in legal and regulatory communications, Zumwalt Strategies helps clients navigate through today’s increasingly fractured media landscape. By combining strategic, data-driven insights with real-time intelligence, we equip clients to respond quickly and decisively, mitigate risk, and protect long-term brand reputation and value.
Our Experience
Advised a not-for-profit on managing and mitigating a landmark antitrust matter brought by a state attorney general in coordination with private plaintiffs, resulting in a successful resolution
Analyzed four-years’ worth of media coverage, digital data, socio-economic and regional reputational trends to inform a private university’s lessons learned and go-forward communications strategy following a high profile and combative proposed expansion
Readied a healthcare system to manage and mitigate a lead “60 Minutes segment, inoculating stakeholders in advance of its airing, countering to tell a fairer and more balanced story immediately after airing, and ultimately suppressing its digital reach
Managed and mitigated the reputational impact of a significant ransomware attack affecting the IT systems of a Global 100 corporation
Readied a private university and its board of trustees to rename select campus assets following an investigation into their historical origins
Conducted a landscape analysis of early COVID-19 hot spots to identify predictive insights and best position a large healthcare system in California to rapidly and transparently communicate about prospective surges among its hospitals
Managed and mitigated the reputational impact of a top-trending docuseries targeting employees of a leading government services company
Advised a regional supermarket chain through an active shooter incident and its aftermath, including real-time social and earned media response
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