Insights

Briefings on political economy and communications. Clear, sourced, and decision‑focused.

• Mastering high-stakes media interviews

  A preparation and delivery system that reduces risk and increases message pull-through in tough interviews.

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• Stakeholder mapping that accelerates outcomes

  How to build a stakeholder map that reveals incentives, leverage, and “warm paths” so your outreach lands in days, not months.

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• The evidence playbook: build credibility under scrutiny

  A practical method for sourcing, validating, and packaging proof so your claims hold up when it matters.

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• The crisis Q&A blueprint: rebuild trust in 72 hours

  A step-by-step template for building a credible Q&A, sourcing proof, and aligning surrogates when attention is scarce.

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• Industrial policy after the IRA: what operators should do now

  A practical lens on incentives, permitting, and messaging for operators executing industrial projects in 2025.

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• US privacy in 2025: a decision brief for operators

  What changes this year, where thresholds apply, and how to plan remediation work without boiling the ocean.

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• Monitoring after CrowdTangle: practical options for 2025

  How to rebuild social media monitoring workflows as legacy tools wind down – with realistic data expectations and workarounds in a post-CrowdTangle world.

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• EU AI Act: a practical field guide for 2025

  How to classify AI systems, prioritize obligations, and operationalize compliance under the EU AI Act in 2025.

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• Market brief: industry policy, supply chains, and the next quarter

  How industrial policy and supply chain realignment shape risk and opportunity, with a decision-focused brief for leaders.

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• Message discipline in high-stakes environments

  A detailed guide to building and maintaining message discipline in high-pressure situations, with templates and examples for practical application.

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• Intelligence-Driven Communications: How Data Analytics Gives You Unfair Advantages

  Most organizations are flying blind. They craft messages based on gut feelings, launch campaigns without understanding their audience, and measure success through vanity metrics that tell them nothing useful.

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• The Psychology of Crisis Decision-Making: Why Smart People Make Terrible Choices Under Pressure

  Logic doesn't work when the building is on fire. I learned this watching a brilliant CEO completely lose his mind during a product recall crisis. This was someone who had built a billion-dollar company through careful analysis and strategic thinking.

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• Digital Infrastructure Security: The Hidden Vulnerability That Could Destroy Your Reputation

  Your cybersecurity team is protecting the wrong things. While they're focused on preventing data breaches and system intrusions, bad actors are exploiting the vast digital ecosystem that surrounds your company to launch reputation attacks that never touch your core business systems.

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• Beyond Press Releases: How Modern Stakeholders Actually Want to Communicate

  The press release is dying a slow, painful death. I watched this happen in real-time during a recent corporate crisis. While the communications team spent hours crafting the perfect statement for wire distribution, employees were already sharing their own version of events on internal Slack channels.

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• Pre-Crisis: Building a Reputation That Can Weather Any Storm

  Most crisis management is backwards. Companies spend fortunes on crisis communications agencies, media training, and response strategies. Then when the crisis hits, they discover something uncomfortable: none of it matters if people already don't trust you.

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• The C-Suite's Guide to Surviving AI-Powered Disinformation in 2025

  Your reputation can be destroyed in eleven minutes. That's how long it took for a deepfake video of a tech CEO 'announcing his resignation' to wipe 11% off his company's stock price this past March. The video was convincing. The voice clone was perfect. By the time anyone realized it was fake, millions of dollars had evaporated.

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