SEAN S. CLANCY serves as chief communications strategist and advisor to the President/CEO’s and senior leadership teams of global FORTUNE 1000 corporations, non-profit agencies and privately held companies.
In his current role as Vice President and Senior Consultant with the Institute for Crisis Management, Clancy delivers crisis communications strategies to companies experiencing acute reputation damaging circumstances in addition to providing crisis communication planning and training to client companies.
During his corporate career, he guided the C-suites of The Shaw Group, the Flowserve Corporation, the Union Carbide Corporation, The Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Rhone-Poulenc Basic Chemicals, Akzo Nobel and the National Safety Council through such public policy issues and major crises as the lingering aftermath of the Bhopal, India chemical accident; Superfund site remediations, asbestos litigation; global tobacco industry litigation; Sarbanes-Oxley compliance issues; shareholder litigation; illegal chemical dumping that contributed to a child cancer cluster; chemical plant explosions; workplace fatalities and lifestyle/workplace safety regulation campaigns.
A former print journalist and credible, articulate corporate spokesperson, he coached senior executives for high profile interviews on 60 MINUTES, DATELINE, and FRONTLINE, as well as other significant print & electronic placements.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Relations from Northern Illinois University.
