Bruce M. Hennes is CEO and crisis communications specialist with Hennes Communications, one of the few firms in North America focused on crisis communications and crisis management, media training & litigation communications. Founded in 1989 and based in Cleveland, the firm serves corporations, government agencies, hospitals, educational institutions and nonprofits that are “on trial in the Court of Public Opinion."As a nationally-known crisis communications specialist, Hennes is an in-demand speaker, often doing Continuing Legal Education seminars for bar associations and law firms around the country, as well as for other industry groups. He also speaks to public safety, education and government officials about “Extreme Crisis Communications” (i.e. how to handle mass casualty and “extreme” situations involving threats to life & limb).Hennes currently serves on the executive committee of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and as an assistant professor at the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, on the faculty of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Leadership Academy and he serves on the board of the Ohio Public-Private Partnership (OP3), a program of the Ohio Department of Homeland Security. Hennes chairs the Leadership Cleveland Selection Committee and he is a longtime member of The Press Club of Cleveland. A graduate of Leadership Cleveland's Class of 2008, he is also a member of The 50 Club of Cleveland.For more information, please check out our website at www.crisiscommunications.com