Crisis Communications and Crisis Leadership 

Join us for a participatory workshop geared to mid- and senior-level communications professionals who want to learn new strategies and tactics for providing leadership in crisis situations.

Leading the workshop will be:

• Eric K. Stern, Ph.D., professor at the University at Albany who has published extensively in the fields of crisis and emergency management, crisis communication, resilience, security studies, executive leadership, foreign policy analysis and political psychology. Dr. Stern has conducted hundreds of crisis trainings in the USA and Europe.

• Joseph A. Brennan, Ph.D., APR, a Fellow of PRSA, and well-known in the Capital Region as a public relations leader with more than 25 years of experience in PR, marketing, communication research and planning, media relations, advocacy and public affairs, brand strategy, employee communications, digital and social media, issues management, and crisis communications. 

As part of the workshop, participants will receive a copy of Dr. Stern's newest book, The Politics of Crisis Leadership, 2nd ed. (a $25 value).