Crisis Management

Almost by definition, crises occur at the most inopportune times. An organization can become defined by the way it handles a crisis. WPA has developed a proactive crisis management practice area that helps clients develop the most appropriate contingency plans, both for crisis prevention and crisis intervention. Our comprehensive toolkit, designed to preserve a firm’s reputation and credibility, is developed and perfected based on audience reaction and feedback to different “what-if” scenarios.

WPA’s techniques and programs have successfully enabled our clients to respond to crises of substantial magnitude through our research-based analysis and structured reporting. We assist in addressing our clients’ most important issues:

  • What are stakeholder’s expectations in a crisis like this?
  • Do we know our roles and responsibilities?
  • Do we have a decision tree and contingency plans?
  • Can we develop/refine our messaging?

Netflix and Customer Satisfaction

The importance of customer satisfaction is becoming increasingly important again, thanks in part to platforms for voicing opinions on the web, such as social media sites.  The importance is highlighted this week as we saw Netflix in the news again for its tremendous drop in customer satisfaction ra

In (some) defense of Doug Schoen

For those who missed it last week, Doug Schoen released a fascinating poll consisting of in-person interviews of n=200 Occupy Wall Street protesters.  The topline report can be found here and is worth reading in its entirety.  It provides a glimpse into some of the real lunatic fringe elements tha


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