
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” Warren Buffet
your reputation is important
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We help you to prevent reputational risks becoming a crisis.
Stuart Bruce Associates helps you protect and defend your reputation.
We are a public relations consultancy specialising in crisis communications and reputation management.
We help companies, organisations and individuals.
Your reputation is more at risk than ever, as in the digital and social media era, the news can quickly spiral out of control.


You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” Henry Ford
The most successful crisis communications is for the crisis you’ve never heard of
We help you to stop your issue becoming a crisis.
Crisis prevention
We help you to identify and reduce reputational risk and prepare crisis communications plans to ensure you’re ready to face the worst issues and threats.
The best time to manage a reputational crisis is before it starts. We help you to identify the reputational risks to reduce or eliminate the risk of them creating a full blown crisis.
We help you to create, review, test and improve your crisis communications plans and preparedness.
Crisis management
We provide a full crisis communications management service to support you and your team in managing challenging crises.
We can be at your side every step of the way to reassure, guide and assist. We have an experienced team of crisis specialists, from journalists to social media experts.
Our global team of associates is hand-picked for every project to provide you with the expertise you need.
Crisis training
We provide crisis communications training, from creating crisis communications plans through to media training and realistic crisis simulations.
We provide face-to-face and remote training all over the world. Our bespoke crisis communications planning workshop has helped hundreds of organisations prevent and prepare for crises.
No plan survives contact with the enemy, so we run realistic crisis simulations to robustly road-test your plan. Our media trainers prepare your spokespeople for the most difficult interviews.
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Google is the world’s biggest reputation management engine.” Richard Edelman
online reputation management
When you’re facing a social media storm and internet searches reveal the worst, we can help.
We’ve worked with some of the world’s biggest brands

reputation insights
Our founder Stuart Bruce started one of the world’s first PR blogs in 2003. He has published hundreds of articles, which are often quoted by the media and academics.
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