We Are All Disaster Survivors Now

COVID-19 emergency unit with quarantined patients, PPE-clad healthcare workers, and signs reading Wear PPE.

We have hosted more than 40 events since the Crisis Communications Network was launched in 2021. There are too many highlights to list here. But for me personally, the chance to interview one of my crisis and disaster management heroes, Professor Lucy Easthope, is right up there. Lucy is the UK’s foremost authority on recovering … Continue reading We Are All Disaster Survivors Now

Genesis: Looking Back at the First Five Years of the Crisis Communications Network

Child on trail beside signs reading Year 1 2019 First Steps Nursery; Year 2 2020 Exploring Learning; Year 3 2021; Year 4 2022 Growing Strong; Year 5 2023 Thriving New Adventures

It started with a simple idea. By late summer 2020 the world felt like a very different place from the one we had known only months before. All the old rhythms of life had stopped but nothing had yet replaced them.  The atmosphere was saturated with uncertainty, dread and a genuine sense of chaos. Confidence … Continue reading Genesis: Looking Back at the First Five Years of the Crisis Communications Network

Crisis Communication for Boards: A Handbook for Good Governance – Key Take-Aways from the Pre-Launch Preview Event

Panel: Katherine Sykes (Chair),  Farzana Baduel,  Philippe Borremans,  Amanda Coleman,  Kerry Knight,  Stephen Waddington      The pre-launch preview of Crisis Communication for Boards: A Handbook for Good Governance on Friday, 11 September 2026 brought together leading practitioners and governance experts to discuss one of the most pressing challenges facing modern organisations: how boards can better anticipate, prepare for, manage and recover from crises. Hosted … Continue reading Crisis Communication for Boards: A Handbook for Good Governance – Key Take-Aways from the Pre-Launch Preview Event

Crisis Communication for Boards: Introducing a New Handbook from the Crisis Communications Network 

Hold the date! Join us on 11 September for an exclusive pre-launch preview of Crisis Communication for Boards, written and published by the CIPR Crisis Communications Network.  Our new handbook, which is published by CIPR in association with the Institute of Directors (IoD), promises to shift how directors, trustees and non-executives think about the role strategic … Continue reading Crisis Communication for Boards: Introducing a New Handbook from the Crisis Communications Network