Crisis & Communications
Promoting effective engagement with the media. We comprehensively equip you with tailored, immersive training and simulation.
Our Services
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Overview
Your organisation’s reputation is one of its most valuable assets and one of the most vulnerable in a connected, fast-moving world. Oakas helps you build influence and protect your brand by combining strategic communications expertise with the full depth of our resilience, security, and intelligence capabilities. We work at the intersection of narrative control, operational reality, and threat intelligence, ensuring that your messaging is not only compelling but also grounded in fact and resilient to challenge.
Our Approach
By combining expert-led instruction, realistic simulation, and leadership-focused consulting, Oakas ensures your teams are ready to meet the media on their terms, communicate with authority, and protect your organisation’s reputation when it matters most.
Training – Delivered by professional journalists, newsroom presenters, editors, and camera operators, our training bridges the gap between theory and the realities of live broadcast and press engagement. We offer progressive training levels tailored to your team’s prior experience; from introductory skills for those new to public speaking, to advanced, adversarial interview techniques for senior leaders who may face hostile questioning.
Simulation – We design and run immersive, live exercises that replicate the pace, intensity, and unpredictability of real-world media pressure. Building on your training investment, these exercises allow your organisation to practise established processes and test crisis communication procedures in a safe but realistic environment. They are designed to uncover capability gaps, pressure-test decision-making chains, and identify new opportunities to strengthen messaging.
Consulting – We work directly with executives and crisis management teams to refine their skills, strengthen their judgement, and ensure they can lead calmly and decisively under intense media and public scrutiny. Our approach creates a safe space for leaders to practise, learn, and gain the confidence to act with clarity in the moments that will define public perception of the organisation.
Key Services
When media scrutiny, misinformation, and executive reputation collide, your team needs more than response—they need rehearsal. Oakas delivers immersive media crises simulations tailored to your organisational exposures. Under direction from former crisis journalists and strategic communicators, you’ll lead through cascading reputational threats, disinformation storms, and stakeholder escalation in controlled pressure environments. Unlike one-day workshops, our simulations build muscle memory, refine narrative control, and sharpen leadership clarity when it matters most.
Real-time media injections: fabricated press leaks, AI-generated content, activist overtures
Live broadcast simulations + mock social media turbulence
Combined executive-communications + legal scenario dynamics
Confidential tabletop or live simulation formats. (on-site & remote)
Post-simulation debriefs reinforced with messaging after-action reviews
Who It’s For?
Our Reputation & Influence services are designed for organisations whose success depends on maintaining public trust, protecting brand credibility, and influencing stakeholders in competitive or high-pressure environments. We have supported:
Government & Defence – ministries, security agencies, and allied forces requiring strategic communications, public affairs capability, and narrative control during sensitive operations.
Critical Infrastructure – utilities, transport, and essential services providers needing effective public engagement during operational disruption or crisis events.
Energy & Resources – oil & gas, renewables, and mining companies seeking to manage reputational risk linked to environmental impact, stakeholder opposition, or geopolitical challenges.
Financial Services – banks, insurers, fintech firms, and payment platforms that must maintain market confidence and reassure clients in volatile conditions.
International NGOs – humanitarian and development organisations working in unstable or contested environments where public trust and donor confidence are essential.
Technology & Communications – telecoms, cloud services, and digital platforms facing reputational threats from data breaches, misinformation, or regulatory scrutiny.
Media & Brand Risk – broadcasters, global brands, and reputation-sensitive corporations needing narrative protection in the face of public criticism or activist campaigns.
Maritime & Aviation – shipping, ports, airlines, and airports requiring strong public messaging and media handling during operational disruption or security incidents.
Healthcare & Life Sciences – hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and biotech innovators needing public trust to sustain operations, product launches, or crisis response.
Large Corporations & Multinationals – global businesses with cross-border operations and complex stakeholder environments requiring consistent, coordinated communications across multiple jurisdictions.
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