As advisors to some of America’s most powerful elected officials and largest companies, Navigators has extensive experience with crisis communications. Our in-house experts have handled the media from the local level to the highest national level, preparing and implementing rapid-response plans that save our client’s reputation and money.  Equally as important, our principals and senior staff have faced withering questions and hot camera lights in various real life crises. 

With our superior level of knowledge and experience in crisis management, Navigators knows how to develop a strategy, craft an effective message and overcome even the most hostile media to help our clients manage a crisis, protect their reputation, mitigate their liabilities and turn negatives into positives.

Rob Stutzman has served as the former top communications aide to a California Attorney General and California Governor and has expert knowledge in the field of crisis management, while Mike Murphy has handled the media on a national level for nearly two decades.  Prior to joining Navigators, Rhonda Bentz guided Visa, Inc.’s litigation support strategies, Mary Cheney has nearly 15 years of experience counseling corporations on issues of crisis management, and Sarah Bascom has counseled some of Florida’s most influential elected leaders and largest companies on crisis communications.



Education Reform Experience
The Florida Department of Education hired Navigators to help the department handle the real and potential political and public opinion challenges surrounding the roll out and implementation of some of Governor Bush’s key education reforms. Read more