One day.
Two essential capabilities.
Three opportunities to learn.
Crafted for today’s leadership challenges
Today’s corporate affairs and communication leaders are navigating two major realities at once: business disruption and rapidly evolving technology. This bootcamp is designed to help professionals build practical capability in both.
Unlike traditional training programs, this is not a day of passive presentations or theoretical discussions. Participants will:
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Through a live crisis simulation, navigate fast-moving scenarios, make decisions under pressure, manage competing priorities, and sharpen their communications and leadership instincts.
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Explore how AI can be used as a practical tool to support communications, workflow efficiency, stakeholder engagement, and faster decision-making in an increasingly complex environment, while keeping human judgment in the lead.
This is not theory. It is practical, hands-on learning designed to help professionals build confidence, capability, and readiness.
Why this bootcamp
You'll leave with:
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Practical crisis decision-making tools
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Greater confidence leading through uncertainty
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Actionable ways to integrate AI into workflows and decision-making
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Tools, frameworks, and feedback you can immediately apply in your role
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A network of peers facing similar challenges
The bootcamp is designed for flexibility. Register for a single session or attend both—whichever best aligns with your goals.
Why now?
Organizations are navigating constant disruption while AI is rapidly reshaping work. Leaders need practical capability—not theory.
Built for professionals who are...
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Managing communications, crisis, or organizational change
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Need to make decisions in fast-moving or high-pressure environments
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Responsible for strategy, operations, or transformation
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Want practical, not theoretical, AI skills for the workplace
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Lead teams, functions, or organizational responses during critical moments
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Want to build confidence before a real crisis occurs
The program is ideal for communications and corporate affairs professionals who want to strengthen their ability to think strategically under pressure, improve decision-making in fast-moving environments, and better understand how AI can support communications, preparedness, and day-to-day work.
No technical AI experience is required—just curiosity and a willingness to learn through experience.
Curriculum overview
Crisis Simulation
Morning session
Facilitated by Scott Davies
Participants will be immersed in a live, evolving crisis environment where new information, stakeholder pressures, and operational challenges emerge throughout the experience.
Working in small teams, participants will make decisions under pressure, respond to emerging developments, and adapt as the situation escalates.
The experience concludes with a facilitated debrief that highlights key learnings, response strengths, and areas for improvement.
Scenarios may include issues such as:
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Media scrutiny and reputational pressure
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Employee misconduct or internal escalation
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Operational disruptions or safety incidents
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Product recalls or quality concerns
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Cybersecurity or data-related events
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Activist, community, or stakeholder pressure
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Environmental or facility-related incidents
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Executive leadership and communications challenges
The goal of the simulation is simple: strengthen crisis judgment, sharpen decision-making, and build confidence before a real crisis occurs.
AI Workshop
Afternoon session
Facilitated by Kristine Grow
AI is everywhere, and leaders are still trying to make sense of what it means for their work. This session is a practical, candid conversation about how to think about AI: what it’s good at, where it falls short, and how to use it to support your work rather than complicate it.
We’ll explore real examples, test prompts, and talk through the questions communicators and executives are wrestling with:
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Where can AI genuinely create capacity?
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When does it introduce risk or rework?
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How do you keep your brand voice and authenticity at the center?
This isn’t technical training. It’s about building clearer thinking in a world where AI is now part of the landscape.
Participants will:
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Identify low‑risk, high‑value use cases for their own work
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Practice pressure‑testing AI’s answers to model good judgment
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Explore where human expertise matters most
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Build a simple, usable mental model for how AI fits into their workflow
You’ll leave with a sharper sense of what AI can do for you and how to use it to free you to do more of the work only humans can do.
Meet the facilitators
Scott Davies
Reign-Maker Strategic Advisory | Founder & Principal
Having been Chief Communications Officer to a Fortune 60 Company as well as a Cabinet level Chief of Staff, Scott has dealt with all forms corporate and political crises. A deeply gifted leader, when infant formula was potentially contaminated in the Philippines, he led the crisis management team. When the safety of a weight loss drug was questioned, he led a global co-ordinated communications strategy to withdraw the product. When politicians have been in trouble, Scott Davies has found them the right words. Many leaders say they are prepared for a crisis, but most only have a strategy of hope. Let this master of crisis management prepare you to shine in the most challenging hours of your professional life.
Kristine Grow
Grow Communications Strategies | Founder & Principal
Kristine has spent years leading Communications teams through the evaluation and adoption of every major tech disruption, from the explosion of social media to the shift from print to digital to today's wave of automation and intelligent tools. Each new technology promised to be a job killer, yet each one created new opportunities for the curious, the collaborative, and the courageously adaptable.
During the bootcamp, Kristine demystifies what AI is — and what it isn’t. She’ll help you understand how to think about AI as both a tool and a creative partner, where it can accelerate your work, and where human judgment must stay firmly in the lead. You’ll leave more confident, more curious, and better equipped to use AI to elevate your strategy, sharpen your impact, and free yourself to do the work only humans can do.
Chose your location
Chicago BootcampOct 05, 2026, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDTThe Rose Hotel Chicago O’Hare, Tapestry, 5200 Pearl St, Rosemont, IL 60018, USA
Philadelphia BootcampOct 07, 2026, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDTCYTO PHL - Cira Centre, 2929 Arch St Suite 250, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
DC BootcampOct 08, 2026, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDTNational Union Building, 918 F St NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20004, USA
Pricing
Register now to take advantage of Early Bird pricing!
Full Bootcamp
Crisis Simulation + AI Workshop
Early Bird Discount | $1,925.00
Base Price | $2,565.00
Crisis Simulation ONLY
Morning session
Early Bird Discount | $1,155.00
Base Price | $1,540.00
AI Workshop ONLY
Afternoon session
Early Bird Discount | $1,155.00
Base Price | $1,540.00