Strategic Communications

Strategic Communications Consulting

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Strategic Communications

Today’s complex media, business and political environment requires ongoing communication with customers, employees, investors and policymakers. While business leaders face critical financial, regulatory and reputational challenges, they also look to capture opportunities that will help their organizations build for the future. To mitigate risks and achieve successful outcomes, organizations must take a strategic, proactive approach to strategic communications.

FTI Consulting’s strategic communications services helps leaders seize opportunities and mitigate risk during both transformational and disruptive moments. C-suites, boards of directors, law firms and the public sector engage us to address their most complex, business-critical issues that require diverse communications skill sets and integrated disciplines. Our hundreds of senior strategic communications consultants around the globe help clients manage crises, navigate market disruptions, stake competitive positions, articulate commitments, and preserve permission to operate.

We leverage our industry expertise and interdisciplinary experience, as well as our proprietary research, data insights, and broad network of relationships with key influencers. Our goal is to help you clarify positions, engage stakeholders, and ensure that the right message reaches the right audience at the right time. Lean on our decades of strategic communications experience in financial communications, crisis communications, transaction and M&A communications, corporate reputation management, public and government affairs, and data-driven design, content and digital strategy.

Policy & Regulation

Law firms, corporations and government agencies must analyze complex economic and public policy issues and understand their impacts before confidently choosing a course of action that delivers the best possible outcome. Institutions around the world call on FTI Consulting to provide sophisticated and comprehensive analyses and trusted, independent advisory on economics and public policy. Our senior policy consultants are leading, world-recognized professionals in their fields, and are involved in a wide range of engagements related to economics, finance and accounting.

We provide critical insight and expert testimony in legal and regulatory proceedings, public policy debates and strategic decision making. Clients rely on our deep policy consulting expertise in antitrust issues, mergers and acquisitions, securities litigation, risk management, valuation and international arbitration.

Our approach is to view policy and regulation issues through an industry-first lens. We have decades of extensive industry experience in energy, electric power, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, telecommunications, media and entertainment, transportation, financial services, transfer pricing, and intellectual property. Experience exceptional policy consulting and regulation consultant services at FTI Consulting.

Risk & Compliance

At times, organizations must seek expert support to help them manage risks and address compliance challenges. Effective risk management and compliance programs are critical to avoiding violations that could restrict an organization’s ability to operate, tarnish its corporate reputation and impact its business relationships. Our clients rely on FTI Consulting to help them overcome these challenges. Our senior risk management & compliance consultants focus on delivering enterprise-wide risk and compliance solutions that promote business transformation and growth and support ethical business behavior. We offer end-to-end industry-specific and expertise-led advisory services to support risk management and compliance programs. Risk management services include anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, and financial crime compliance.

We help clients assess risk; enhance control environments; perform focused, value-added data analysis; and undertake transaction examination, utilizing deep subject matter expertise and powerful technical and analytical tools. Clients engage us to analyze risk management policies and procedures, identify gaps or inefficiencies in existing safeguards, and design and implement controls that rehabilitate program deficiencies. We can deploy our risk management advisory anywhere in the world to meet your challenges, or we can assist you remotely.

ESG & Sustainability

As global leaders find themselves under the scrutiny of activists, shareholders, employees, policymakers, regulators, consumers and the media, engaging stakeholders around business risks and opportunities and demonstrating prudent oversight is critical.

From materiality assessments and environmental sustainability reporting to net zero strategies, supply chain audits and ESG-related internal investigations, we help corporate leaders navigate constantly evolving ESG and sustainability issues.

Our ESG consultants understand the emerging trends driving corporate strategy in your industry and provide an integrated approach to drive measurable progress at all stages of your ESG journey. From climate economics to stakeholder engagement, our diverse team of sustainability consultants brings an expansive range of capabilities and offerings to your sustainability objectives, delivering authentic, impactful solutions that drive value and address stakeholder requirements.

As part of this comprehensive approach, we also assist companies in efficient data collection and disclosure to meet diverse regulatory requirements related to climate and environmental impact, including mandates like the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (“CSRD”) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (“CSDDD”), as well as regulations from the SEC, California, Australia and other jurisdictions.

By combining on-the-ground intelligence gathering and advocacy with data analytics, we can provide early warning and diagnostics, enhanced issue and stakeholder understanding, tailored and adaptable advocacy and impact measurement — transforming sustainability challenges into strategic advantages.