Empowering Leaders: How to Excel Through Crises with Proven Strategies
Crises affect all industries, and navigating the negative impacts on critical business operations is imperative to ensure an organization’s health and stability. Are your leaders prepared to identify potential threats, manage the uncertainty of internal and external environments, and deploy crisis strategies to mitigate risk?
Overview
This in-person program focuses on strategies and principles exemplifying excellence in crisis management and leadership, and guidelines to identify and navigate proactive and resilient strategies that emerge amidst a crisis. The program supplies participants the knowledge, skills and efficacy to lead through crises, influence stakeholders, leverage resources, and enhance business processes. Additional case studies, peer-to-peer learning, and a simulation exercise improve individual and team performance.
Who Will Benefit
Those in professional leadership seeking to build or improve crisis management skills while learning how crisis can impact their organization. Discover how to communicate management plans to stakeholders and create an interdisciplinary crisis management approach.
Career Impact
- Sharpen decision-making and communication skills before, during, and after a crisis
- Build goals and benchmarks to navigate your organization through uncharted territory
- Learn to make effective decisions to sustain operations, limit liability, and protect an organization’s reputation during crises
- Use collaborative insights from simulation exercises to learn from peer networks
- Guide others successfully through organizational and professional change
Topics
- Business and Strategic Communication
- Law and Risk Management
- Technology: AI & Cybersecurity
- Media Training for Professionals
- Solving Emerging Threats through Readiness
Program Information
Date:
TBD 2025
Time:
8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Format:
In-Person
Location:
Terry Executive Education Center
3475 Lenox Road
Atlanta, GA 30326
Program Fees:
$800 (special rates are available for UGA alumni and multiple registrants from the same company)
Contact
- Associate Director of Open Enrollment Programs & Conferences, Executive Education
Facilitators
Department Head, Department of Insurance, Legal Studies and Real Estate
Daniel P. Amos Distinguished Professor of Insurance and Professor, Risk Management and Insurance Program
Crisis Communication Researcher, Consultant, Trainer
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
- Partner, Lexicon Strategies
- Director, Service Providers, USA, Europe, and South America, Stellar Cyber
C. Richard Yarbrough Professor in Crisis Communication Leadership, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication
Professor of Public Relations and Associate Director of Center for Health & Risk Communication, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication
- Partner, Managing Director, Ketchum
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication
Co-Director of Center for Health & Risk Communication, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication
Professor, Advertising & Public Relations, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication
Associate Dean for Research and Executive Programs, Office of the Dean
C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Distinguished Chair of Business Administration and Professor, Department of Management
- C. Richard Yarbrough Professor in Crisis Communication Leadership emeritus, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication
- President, Robinson Republic
- University Spokesperson and Senior Advisor for Crisis Communications, Office of the VP for Marketing & Communications, University of Georgia
- Carolyn Caudell Tieger Professor of Public Affairs Communications, Advertising & Public Relations, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications