By Gerard Braud – The clock is ticking for ESPN. Will they put Britt McHenry back on the air after a 7-day suspension due to her viral video rant? In many crisis situations, an expert might counsel both the offender and her employee on ways to 1) say I’m sorry and 2) to make amends. […]
#FireBrittMcHenry: The ESPN Media & Social Media Crisis
April 20, 2015 by · Leave a Comment
By Gerard Braud— How would you or your company handle the situation if one of your employees did what ESPN reporter Britt McHenry did? A media and social media crisis has been created for ESPN and McHenry when a video was posted that showed McHenry berating an employee of an auto towing company. At this […]
NFL Failed Crisis Management Amid Sponsor Pressure
September 19, 2014 by · Leave a Comment
By Gerard Braud The NFL’s failed crisis management is hitting them in the wallet. It is hitting teams hard, as players under suspicion of wrong-doing are singled out. It shows weakness of leadership to not manage a crisis properly from the beginning. It shows failure of leadership not to communicate a response properly from the […]
Failed Crisis Management Leadership Hits Multiple NFL Players and Teams
September 18, 2014 by · Leave a Comment
By Gerard Braud The NFL crisis gets bigger in the absence of crisis management, crisis communications and good executive leadership. Adrian Peterson and a string of other players and teams are being swept up in the crisis because as the appointed leader of the NFL, Roger Goodell failed to make the right decisions at the […]
NFL Crisis Management and Crisis Communications Double Standard
September 16, 2014 by · Leave a Comment
By Gerard Braud NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell missed a crisis management and crisis communications opportunity to end the Ray Rice crisis. Sunday should have been the day Roger Goodell announced to the world that he would be suspending himself for one year. It would have displayed leadership in a crisis. It would have been […]
