Brad Chase, Founder
Brad Chase is the founder of Chase Global, a consultancy specializing in strategic communications, crisis response, reputation management, and media relations. He has 20+ years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies, startups, public figures, nonprofits, public policy campaigns, and high-profile individuals through public scrutiny, reputation risk, crisis response, and high-stakes communications issues.
A senior strategist, executive spokesperson, educator, and crisis counselor, Brad has worked on thousands of headline stories with nearly every top-tier media outlet around the globe — including Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, BBC, CBS News, CNBC, CNN, FOX News, HuffPost, NBC News, Newsweek, New York Times, NPR, Reuters, and Time. He has also published guest opinion columns on media, communications and politics for CBS News, CNN, Forbes, FOX News, HuffPost, Observer, and more.
From building communications functions for emerging companies to serving as interim / fractional Chief Communications Officer for companies in transition to counseling billion-dollar organizations facing change, scrutiny, and reputational damage, Brad is a trusted voice in the C-Suite and boardroom on communications strategy, reputation, crisis response, and high-stakes external engagement.
Brad served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Journalism — where he earned a master’s degree — and the University of San Francisco. He was recognized in 2011 by the industry-leading PRNEWS on its 15-to-Watch list. Additionally, Brad was retained as an expert witness for a case about the conduct of a Fortune 500 company's Chief Communications Officer. Learn more about Chase Global’s Expert Witness & Litigation Support services.
His work covers the full spectrum of communications:
• Serve as primary counsel to CEOs/C-Suite/Boards
• Act as Interim or Fractional Chief Communications Officer for companies in transition
• Build communications functions for organizations without existing capabilities; design strategy, structure, and sustainable infrastructure to support long-term growth
• Direct crisis response and reputation rehabilitation strategies for organizations facing negative media attention, governmental intervention and other reputational threats
• Audit and expand companywide and global response plans in partnership with legal, risk management, security, IT, facilities, and other critical departments
• Guide executives on communications strategy, public engagement, trust, transparency, thought leadership, and public diplomacy
• Provide analysis and actionable recommendations on public policy and social trends, as gathered through an extensive network of contacts in news media and politics
• Conduct media training for every news format: morning (ABC Good Morning America, FOX News Fox & Friends, NBC Today Show), prime time (CNN AC360), and long-form (Dateline NBC, ABC 20/20)
