Risk - Reputation - Strategic Communications
Canary & Shield coaches organizations to enhance their resilience through risk and crisis ‘muscle’ development and more empathetic communications with key stakeholders.
So, who are you? It is likely that you are one of the 78% of global CEOs that have not yet prioritised crisis and risk management as one of your business drivers (The Conference Board: The CEO Playbook 2026). Although you recognise that cyberattacks and uncertainty are your highest threats you haven't made the link between building a confident organisation and your ability to weather adversity.
You may or may not have crisis management teams, and any business continuity plan is likely untested, not updated, and does not address mitigation or whole company response - or you may have focused your efforts on specific functions only, like IT/informatics.
You may feel that the time to plan is when the crisis hits and we'll help you understand that being on the back foot is not a comfortable position. So perhaps ask yourself and your team how confident you are in understanding the risks you face, who your stakeholders are and whether they friends, badvocates, or potential activists. Do the team members you'll rely on understand their roles and authority?
With Canary & Shield you build a relationship with experienced consultants who have decades of frontline real business leadership experience across many industries, and who have experienced the crises that you may well be facing. We don't use militaristic or technical jargon and our engagements are proven and serious, designed to raise team confidence and create muscle memory for crises of any kind that will drive responsiveness and mitigate reputational damage. As an external agency we can ask difficult questions and probe internal factors that might be uncomfortable for internal teams. We can work internally and externally to understand your stakeholders and their likely responses..
We are here to help, no matter where you are on your crisis leadership journey. Reach out and let's explore whether we can help you.
Practice Areas
Risk Assessment
Risk-response planning is an enabling strategy that prepares an organisation for the changing environments in which it operates. It informs you of the richness of the challenges and opportunities that might emerge, creating a more confident organization and placing you in a better position for lean thinking, more responsive organizational structuring, and acquiring in-demand skilled team members..
Crisis Response Training
As a leadership team are you ready to collaborate and actively orchestrate the toughest situations that you may ever face? Can you keep your stakeholders aligned and know when and how to communicate with them? With our decades of real life experience, Canary & Shield associates will prepare you to lead through any situation that may arise. Our structured programs that include 1-1 preparation and dynamic group workshops will give you the confidence to tackle the unexpected and the unthinkable.
Strategic Communications
Strategic communications are important, they set direction, and have impact on an organization's success through consistency in messaging and confident delivery. They create an umbrella under which product, people and organizational messages develop over the long term.
Like all communications, they should be measurable and consistent with your brand, and be useful to as many stakeholders as possible as they amplify your corporate goals. Strong strategic communications take the needs of different stakeholders into account to ensure that the communication is unambiguous and clarity is achieved.
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
- Goethe