A seasoned leader, manager, strategist and advocate, Christopher Hayes brings 20 plus years of award-winning experience helping companies, non-profits, and governments engage stakeholders, create partnerships, raise funds, grow globally, protect reputations, manage crises, impact public policy, and change behavior. Chris has worked in or traveled to more than 50 countries.

Chris is a leader in evidence-based stakeholder engagement; corporate relations & development; crisis, political, policy & risk communications; public & media relations; external affairs; marketing; quantitative, qualitative research; market entry; public affairs advocacy, and geopolitics; and integrated marketing.

Early in his career, Chris worked on several U.S. political campaigns.

Chris understands today’s complex digital & social information environment – requiring some leaders to adopt a CEO as Statesman model; some organizations also to become media & content companies to communicate directly to stakeholders and remain competitive; many organizations to interact dynamically with stakeholders; and Corporate Sustainability Programs to have a real, measurable impact (as traditional CSR is now “table stakes”).