Return to Center: Find Your Guiding Principle in Crisis

By Natalie Bauer LuceThe late night show hosts are delivering their monologues from home. Restaurants and bars around the country are all but deserted, and our great American cities look like they have been cast as the setting for the latest zombie apocalypse blockbuster.Meanwhile, I’ve used the term “pandemic” in casual conversation more times in

2021-01-26T03:36:45+00:00March 27, 2020|

Baseball, We Need You Now

By Dennis Culloton Let’s take a break from our home confinement and the very serious business of flattening the COVID-19 curve to warmer thoughts about where we would normally be today--at the ballpark for baseball’s opening day. My Cubs would have been facing their rivals the Milwaukee Brewers in Milwaukee and teams all over the

2020-07-08T04:30:54+00:00March 26, 2020|

From the Virus, Leaders Will Be Forged

By Dennis Culloton, CEO, President, Culloton + Bauer Luce The entire globe and its leaders are undergoing a massive test of crisis management and crisis communications as we grapple with the global COVID 19 coronavirus pandemic. We’ve seen the worst of humanity over the last several weeks, from stifling public discussion of the outbreak in

2020-07-08T04:18:30+00:00March 13, 2020|Tags: , |

Planes, Trains and Automobiles: PR Lessons for 2020

The start of the year brought another reminder of the importance of public relations for transportation companies as NPR reported that Amtrak Asked 2 People Who Use Wheelchairs To Pay $25,000 For A Ride. This fiasco comes on the heels of Boeing’s ongoing effort to repair their image after the grounding of their 737 Max

2020-06-19T19:44:25+00:00January 28, 2020|

Culloton Strategies Rebrands as Culloton + Bauer Luce

Culloton Strategies announced today that the public affairs and crisis management firm has rebranded as Culloton + Bauer Luce, adding principal Natalie Bauer Luce as an equity owner. “I am excited to kick off this chapter for our team and to call Natalie my partner. She is simply one of the most skilled communications strategists

2020-06-23T19:06:09+00:00June 24, 2019|Tags: , , , |

Innovation and Wild Turkey: Remembering Herb Kelleher

By Dennis CullotonHerb Kelleher once drank a plastic cocktail glass of soda after he extinguished his cigarette in it on a dare—well, actually a warning—from me. So I hope he will appreciate that I grinned when I read of his passing at age 87 yesterday. At a time when it is trendy in business to be considered

2019-01-04T15:20:11+00:00January 4, 2019|Tags: , |

MGM’s Unconscionable Choice

Dennis Culloton, President and CEOMGM Resorts International announced last week they had sued 1000’s of plaintiffs who had sued the company after last fall’s bloody Mandalay Bay Las Vegas shooting.  On October 1, Stephen Paddock fired his semiautomatic rifles out his 32nd  floor Mandalay Bay Hotel room onto country music goers below killing 58 people

2018-07-24T17:34:40+00:00July 24, 2018|Tags: , , , |

The Real News on Social Media Giants

By Dennis Culloton, CEO and president The investigation into alleged collusion by President Trump’s campaign with the Russians –and his protests of “fake news”--has overshadowed what may be the longer lasting impact of Russian meddling in U.S. elections-- the real news that the biggest media companies in the world were grilled on Capitol Hill.Social media giants

2017-11-06T14:54:15+00:00November 6, 2017|Tags: , , , , , , |
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