Reputation Management

Crisis and reputation management starts with prevention.

A robust and strategic reputation management plan can be used to elevate your brand image and combat, minimise, or mitigate negative media inquiries - before crisis strikes.

Arize, a Melbourne-based agency, offers a range of services to ensure your business is prepared to address and mitigate the risk of reputation damage.

Our Reputation Management process includes:


  • Deep dive: Working with you and your team to identify key areas of risk

  • Communications framework: Development of proactive and reactive communications to manage reputational risk, including steps, tools, messaging, response register, scenarios, ratings, and processes on how to manage external communications and stakeholders

  • Messaging development and stakeholder briefing: Development of nuanced messaging and tailored training for each stakeholder segment in the case of a crisis arising, including staff, suppliers, customers, the public, and the media

  • Cybersecurity communications: Identifying risks and opportunities to inform an extensive crisis plan, including processes, protocols, media materials, internal communications, and stakeholder and community management

  • Communications strategy: Development of a comprehensive communications strategy based on transparency, timeliness, and availability

  • Communications protocol: Mapped out scenarios and processes on how to manage internal communications

  • Media monitoring and social listening: Monitoring for keywords and mentions, with as-it-happens updates and regular reporting

  • Scenario testing (fire drills): Equip spokespeople with practical advice and tools to communicate clearly in each potential scenario. Includes rehearsing how to communicate under pressure in a simulated environment.

Through this process, your company will have a proactive strategy that ensures ultimate communications preparedness, business confidence and reputation protection.

Spokespeople will be prepared, confident, and ready to quickly respond to media enquiries.