Creating, Enhancing and Saving Reputations
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — Epictetus
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Just Issued…
Three new Temin and Company white papers:
- Judging Judgment: How Can Leaders Know Whose Advice to Trust in Crisis Situations
- Judging Judgment: 11 Attributes to Look for in Your Crisis Manager
- Concentrate On Your Reputation, Not Brand: Brands Are For Products (and Cattle), Reputations Are For People
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“CEO Bravado Risks ‘Trivializing’ Geopolitical Crisis“
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has found a new potential opponent in the ring in Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “Business leaders need to take great care in terms of the weight of their words,” said Davia Temin. In the intense current geopolitical environment, it’s a time for deliberation, moderation and “trying to cool things down — not heat them up.”
To read the article, Click Here
“A Tough Time To Ban Non-Competes“
Trust in leaders is ebbing; job loyalty is tanking; service businesses are getting tougher; so are small businesses; competition is stiffening; interest rates continue to be high; and AI is putting everyone’s job at risk… So, what is the FTC doing? Doing away with non-compete clauses. — Forbes Reputation Matters
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“Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz Made PR Blunder With Late Apology“
“A CEO needs a nuanced and emotionally truthful response,” said Davia Temin. “This is a response scrubbed by a legal team with lawsuits in mind. It holds little to no accountability, which is what makes apologies so powerful.”
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“Kyte Baby CEO issues two apologies in remote working row“
“Take a loss, but do the right thing because perception matters…It’s doing the right thing, and sometimes that’s not the right thing for your pocket.” Media and reputation strategist Davia Temin on Kyte Baby refusing to let a mother work remotely while her newborn is in the NICU.
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Trusted advisors to leaders and their organizations, Temin and Company is a boutique management consultancy focused on ethically-based reputation and crisis management; marketing and media strategy and implementation; marketing through ideas, information, expertise and intellectual capital; and leadership and communications coaching at the highest levels.
We help to create, enhance, refine and save reputations for a wide variety of clients, from global corporations and their boards and CEOs to professional and financial services firms, governments, universities, not-for-profits and selected individuals.
We seek to add extraordinary value to our clients’ bottom lines; advance their business plans; further their missions; support their products and services; prepare for, address and recover from risk and crisis; raise their visibility; and strengthen their reputations.
Deeply grounded in research – and featuring a team of the smartest and most experienced multi-disciplinary professionals available – we seek to provide clients unequaled counsel, judgment, strategy, tactics, writing and real-time, tireless implementation.
Specifically, we help our clients:
reputations and trust; strategic visibility; strategic marketing plans and competitive analyses; positioning; and print, broadcast and social media presence for new and established companies, ventures and products.
the value, reputation and thought leadership of established professional and financial services firms, corporations, organizations, products and services – especially by leveraging the intellectual capital within those organizations to key audiences and media.
reputations through crisis and risk planning, preparation, role play, real-time crisis management, damage control and reputation restoration.
the external presence and internal efficacy of leaders through the highest-level, individually tailored leadership, communications, strategy, speech and media coaching.
Latest Crisis Resources
- CORPORATE CONSCIENCE IN THE DARKEST OF DAYS: What Can Board Directors Do about Ukraine
- IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER: The Perils of Declaring Victory in Crisis Too Soon
- CRISIS LEADERSHIP IN REAL TIME: 8 Pandemic Best Practices
- CHAOS LEADERSHIP: When Does Global Crisis Turn Into Chaos and How Do We Survive It?
- CHAOS RULES: 8 Ways to Navigate Through the Fog of Crisis
- COMMUNICATING IN CRISIS: How to Build Trust in an Untrustworthy World
- CRISIS MANAGEMENT IS COUNTERINTUITIVE
Podcasts »
America’s Leadership Crisis: Davia Temin — How Do We Fix It? podcast with host Richard Davies
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Companies: Crisis and Common Ground — Let's Find Common Ground podcast with hosts Richard Davies and Ashley Milne-Tyte.
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Communicating with Authority and Compassion in Crisis or Opportunity — Voice America’s Out of the Comfort Zone with host Wanda Wallace.
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Leading Through Crisis & Chaos — Know the Rules of the Game® Podcast with host Desiree Patno & Special Guest Davia Temin.
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Temps at the Top — Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal.
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You Can Eradicate Sexual Harassment in Your Organization — Monday Morning Radio.
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Leading in a ‘Me Too’ Era
In the era of #MeToo, leaders need to know what to do to prevent the problem in the first place.
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Creating, Enhancing and Saving Reputations
Trusted advisors to leaders and their organizations, Temin and Company is a boutique management consultancy focused on reputation and crisis management; marketing and media strategy and implementation; marketing through ideas, information, expertise and intellectual capital; and leadership and communications coaching at the highest levels.
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — EpictetusWe help to create, enhance, refine and save reputations for a wide variety of clients, from global corporations and their boards and CEOs to professional and financial services firms, governments, universities, not-for-profits and selected individuals.
We seek to add extraordinary value to our clients’ bottom lines; advance their business plans; further their missions; support their products and services; prepare for, address and recover from risk and crisis; raise their visibility; and strengthen their reputations.
Deeply grounded in research – and featuring a team of the smartest and most experienced multi-disciplinary professionals available – we seek to provide clients unequaled counsel, judgment, strategy, tactics, writing and real-time, tireless implementation.
Featured »
Just Issued…
Three new Temin and Company white papers:
- Judging Judgment: How Can Leaders Know Whose Advice to Trust in Crisis Situations
- Judging Judgment: 11 Attributes to Look for in Your Crisis Manager
- Concentrate On Your Reputation, Not Brand: Brands Are For Products (and Cattle), Reputations Are For People
To read the white papers , Click Here
“CEO Bravado Risks ‘Trivializing’ Geopolitical Crisis“
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has found a new potential opponent in the ring in Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “Business leaders need to take great care in terms of the weight of their words,” said Davia Temin. In the intense current geopolitical environment, it’s a time for deliberation, moderation and “trying to cool things down — not heat them up.”
To read the article, Click Here
“A Tough Time To Ban Non-Competes“
Trust in leaders is ebbing; job loyalty is tanking; service businesses are getting tougher; so are small businesses; competition is stiffening; interest rates continue to be high; and AI is putting everyone’s job at risk… So, what is the FTC doing? Doing away with non-compete clauses. — Forbes Reputation Matters
To read the article, Click Here
“Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz Made PR Blunder With Late Apology“
“A CEO needs a nuanced and emotionally truthful response,” said Davia Temin. “This is a response scrubbed by a legal team with lawsuits in mind. It holds little to no accountability, which is what makes apologies so powerful.”
To read the article, Click Here
“Kyte Baby CEO issues two apologies in remote working row“
“Take a loss, but do the right thing because perception matters…It’s doing the right thing, and sometimes that’s not the right thing for your pocket.” Media and reputation strategist Davia Temin on Kyte Baby refusing to let a mother work remotely while her newborn is in the NICU.
To watch the interview, Click Here
Latest Crisis Resources
- CORPORATE CONSCIENCE IN THE DARKEST OF DAYS: What Can Board Directors Do about Ukraine
- IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER: The Perils of Declaring Victory in Crisis Too Soon
- CRISIS LEADERSHIP IN REAL TIME: 8 Pandemic Best Practices
- CHAOS LEADERSHIP: When Does Global Crisis Turn Into Chaos and How Do We Survive It?
- CHAOS RULES: 8 Ways to Navigate Through the Fog of Crisis
- COMMUNICATING IN CRISIS: How to Build Trust in an Untrustworthy World
- CRISIS MANAGEMENT IS COUNTERINTUITIVE
Recent »
Davia Temin runs a successful crisis and reputation management firm in New York City. Learn the story behind this woman-owned company and the different tools firms and people can use when faced with catastrophe. — Voice of America Connect
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“Leading Through Chaos: How to Build Trust in an Untrustworthy World”
Webinar with strategic partner Ellig Group featuring Janice Ellig.
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“Companies: Crisis and Common Ground“
Davia Temin joins Richard Davies and Ashley Milne-Tyte on the Let’s Find Common Ground podcast to discuss challenges and opportunities for corporate leaders and to share practical lessons on how they can respond to today’s changing political, cultural and social landscape.
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Davia Temin has been named by Extraordinary Women on Boards (EWOB) as their newest Expert in Residence.
“Davia has helped find solutions to some of the toughest crises of our time – ranging from corporate governance, product, brand, and fiscal issues, to cybersecurity, withdrawing drugs from the market, oil spills, and airplane crashes. This is an area where knowing the right person before you’re in a crisis can make a huge difference for board directors,” say EWOB co-founders Lisa Shalett and Lisa DeCarlo.
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“Concentrate On Your Reputation, Not Brand — Brands Are For Products (and Cattle), Reputations Are For People“
Most of us care about how the world sees and values us. Unfortunately, while most would like to be in control of what people think of us, and our good names, most of the judgments regarding our fate are made in rooms where we are not present. So, what are they saying about us when we’re not in the room, and what can we do to influence it? — Forbes Reputation Matters
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“Judging Judgment: How Can Leaders Know Whose Advice To Trust In Crisis Situations?”
As a leader, you are only as good as the worst advice you take. And the art of figuring out how to judge judgement can make all the difference to the performance of a Corporate CEO, College President, or political contender. — Forbes Reputation Matters
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“11 Attributes To Look For In Your Crisis Manager”
The world is awash in experts — so how do leaders know which ones to choose, and trust? In her latest article on Forbes.com, Davia Temin shares 11 stress-tested suggestions for how leaders can recognize whose advice to trust, and who to turn to in crisis. — Forbes Reputation Matters
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“The Nobel Prize Takes Aim Against Disinformation, Lies And Fakes?” — Once there is no certainty to be found on the shifting sands of lies, trust dies a hard and ugly death. So, who better to lead the charge than The Nobel Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences. We can all be fooled, they cautioned. We can all become victim to disinformation or false memory campaigns. And all people — even the best of people — can be made to believe the lies. — Forbes Reputation Matters
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“Bloomberg Markets: The Close 11/7/23 “
Davia Temin joins hosts Scarlet Fu and Katie Griefeld on Bloomberg Markets: The Close to discuss Boomerang CEOs and whether companies that bring back chief executives in the hope of fixing some problems – such as Starbucks, Dollar General, DuPont, and Disney – use a winning strategy.
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“Don’t Cry. Don’t Curse. Just Deliver the Bad News, Experts Say”
If a message has been damaging, then experts advise leaders to show contrition and encourage the public to recognize that executives are only humans who can make mistakes and deserve to be extended a bit of grace, says Davia Temin. “In any good organization, empathy and compassion go both ways. I worry we are responding with anger as opposed to with understanding.” — Agenda
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“Exclusive: JPMorgan employees gripe about Dimon’s return-to-office edict” —
“Working from home was introduced during extraordinary times and leaders have the right to change that, especially now as we are likely to be getting into a recession where profitability will be key,” said Davia Temin. — Reuters
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Davia Temin is profiled in the chapter “Strong Minds” – on “Intention to Live with Integrity” – in Michelle Gadsden-Williams’ new book “Driven by Intention”
Says Michelle Gadsden-Williams about Davia: “I have been particularly struck with the way intention with integrity is akin to a philosophy of living for her. She explained intention to me, saying, ‘I think it is very, very aligned to purpose… Intention is what fuels a life of purpose. Intention is a guide for how we live our lives.'”
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First Virtual Champagne Salon:
Davia Temin and Lorraine Hariton, Catalyst CEO, discuss the future of work, diversity, inclusion and workplaces that work for everyone.
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Intention is one of the most critical factors in determining our success in today’s challenging environment. Temin and Company’s latest Virtual Champagne Salon features Michelle Gadsden-Williams, the global head of diversity, inclusion, and equity at BlackRock, and celebrates the publication of her new book, “Driven by Intention.”
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#Vaccinate4Love Launch Salon:
Co-founded by Dr. Jacqueline Jones and Davia Temin, this Public Awareness Campaign urging all communities to vaccinate “for you, for your family, and for everyone” launched on March 24, 2021, at a Temin and Company Zoom Salon.
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