Brisbane Directors' Roundtable – Leading Through the Storm

In today’s volatile corporate landscape, a company's reputation can be dismantled in minutes. For Australian company directors, successfully navigating a crisis requires having best-practice and tested crisis plans in place; robust governance, and legally sound decision-making.

Join reputation management and crisis communications specialists Brian Tyson and Jo Collins from SEC Newgate, and highly experienced reputation, brand protection and privacy law practitioner John Kelly of WRP Legal, for an intensive and interactive session on crisis and reputation management.

The session will give company directors with insights and practical advice around the impact of rising shareholder activism and regulatory and political scrutiny; outline critical first-hour activities in the event of a crisis; unpack case studies on what went right and wrong and why; look at balancing the legal strategy with empathetic public messaging; deploying legal privilege; and how to avoid costly public relations missteps while mitigating litigation risks.

The session will finish with an interactive crisis simulation designed to test decision-making, speed, and strategic judgment under realistic board-room pressure.