The Leading in a Crisis Podcast

Interviews, stories and lessons learned from experienced crisis leaders. Email the show at Tom@leadinginacrisis.com.

Being an effective leader in a corporate or public crisis situation requires knowledge, tenacity, and influencing skills. Unfortunately, most of us don't get much training or real experience dealing with crisis situations. On this podcast, we will talk with people who have lived through major crisis events and we will tap their experience and stories from the front lines of crisis management.

Your host, Tom Mueller, is a veteran crisis manager and trainer with more than 30 years in the corporate communications and crisis fields. Tom currently works as an executive coach and crisis trainer with WPNT Communications, and as a contract public information officer and trainer through his personal company, Tom Mueller Communications LLC.

Your co-host, Marc Mullen, has over 20 years of experience as a communication strategist. He provides subject matter expertise in a number of communication specializations, including crisis communication plan development, response and recovery communications, emergency notifications and communications, organizational reviews, and after-action reports. He blogs at Blog | Marc Mullen

Our goal is to help you grow your knowledge and awareness so you can be better prepared to lead should a major crisis threaten your organization.

Music credit: Special thanks to Nick Longoria from Austin, Texas for creating the theme music for the podcast.

Contributors

Host

Tom Mueller

Tom Mueller is a highly experienced crisis communications and training professional. He started his career as a newspaper reporter and then spent more than 30 years in the energy industry in press office and communication roles. He and his family have lived in Bolivia and Vietnam while working on major energy projects, and he has spent time in many other countries supporting new project development.

Tom has worked his share of major crisis events, including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, where he served as PIO for bp in New Orleans.

Tom now does private consulting and PIO coaching through his firm, Tom Mueller Communications, LLC. He also works as a training and executive coaching consultant with WPNT Communications, providing media training and executive communication training. Tom also writes a features blog. Find it at https://talesandcontrails.com.

Co-host

Marc Mullen

Marc Mullen has over 20 years of experience as a communication strategist. He provides subject matter expertise in a number of communication specializations, including crisis communication plan development, response and recovery communications, emergency notifications and communications, organizational reviews, and after action reports.

Marc has been actively involved in supporting multiple large-scale crisis events and drills, working directly with multiple agencies, oil and energy companies, and a wide variety of other clients in preparing for, or providing effective stakeholder communications in, significant incidents. He has direct experience in helping manage communications during natural disasters, environmental spills, shipping accidents, industrial accidents, wildfires and many other types of events.

Marc also writes a crisis communication blog. Find it at https://marcmullen.com/blog/.