Hennes Communications

Hennes Communications is one of the few firms in North America with an exclusive focus on crisis management and crisis communications, having built its international business helping clients minimize risk by managing their communications response to reputational challenges, crisis events and other issues threatening their mission and their ability to serve stakeholders.

Founded in 1969, the firm’s clients include government agencies, public and private companies, law firms, educational and healthcare institutions and nonprofits that are “on trial in the Court of Public Opinion.” Ancillary services include crisis/media training, crisis planning and litigation communications.

Unlike most public relations firms, our highly experienced and focused staff includes only senior-level consultants with many years of experience in crisis communications and other “mission-critical” roles. We are flexible, responsive and able to get up to speed quickly, in order to understand our client’s issue and develop the best communications response strategy for the situation at hand. 

Hennes Communications serves an average of 180 individual clients annually in the following sectors: Public and private corporations, law firms, other professional service firms, government agencies, educational institutions (public, private, parochial and independent schools pre-K through grade 12), higher education (public and private universities and colleges), larger non-profits, arts organizations, nursing homes and senior living communities (for-profit and non-profit), hospitals, physician practices, trade and professional associations.

We are the preferred partner for the Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio School Boards Associations. And more than 60% of our work comes to us as referrals from attorneys we meet during the 40-60 CLEs we do every year for bar associations and law firms that come to understand the Court of Public Opinion is often more important than the Court of Law.