The Dezenhall Difference

Dezenhall Resources, Ltd. is one of the most trusted public affairs and crisis management firms and first practitioners of the crisis management discipline. Over the past 35 years, we have guided countless businesses, trade groups, law firms, and nonprofits through issues big and small, all of which threatened to damage the organization’s reputation and ability to do business. And in doing so, we’ve earned a reputation for meeting marketplace challenges and crises head-on while securing winning outcomes for our clients.

We believe in discretion at all times. Our clients face some of the most intense – and often unfair – controversies in their personal or corporate histories. We work to help our clients resolve issues before they become public controversies.

In an age when many consultants are part of publicly traded conglomerates, the pressure to perpetually upsell their clients with flashy slide decks and irrelevant metrics is often more critical than their fiduciary obligations to deliver for their clients.

Dezenhall Resources takes precisely the opposite approach. Achieving our client’s objectives drives everything we do. We are laser-focused on generating compelling deliverables that produce impactful results, not arbitrary numbers.

We hold the counselor-client relationship as a sacred trust; therefore, we do not disclose our client list, announce our new business wins, or publicly discuss client case histories without permission.

Marketplace Defense.

Marketplace defense is a strategic operational and communications approach that allows an organization to protect its market share by pre-empting and rebutting third-party attacks that threaten its reputation, freedom to operate or bottom line. Whether preparing for a crisis or amid a marketplace assault, we start each engagement by working with our clients to establish realistic objectives, as well as developing a precise landscape analysis that identifies the antagonists and factors in the political and cultural windmills that are at our back and in our face. Then we tailor a plan to win, which, unlike many in this discipline, frequently involves creating political risk for our client’s opponents and attackers.

Traditional tactics in today’s public affairs, government relations, and media environment are often insufficient, primarily because they mistake conflicts–fundamental disagreements and agendas–with communications problems and misunderstandings. That’s where we come in.