2. Must Reads

Must Reads

“When turmoil rules, go in.” — Lao Tzu

There is so much to read, so much to know, so many sources to follow. And the volume of news and information just keeps growing exponentially. How to keep up? Even more, how to rediscover the serendipity of learning something new and interesting for its own sake?

Here, for your enjoyment and interest, are the articles Temin and Company considers “must reads.” They are primarily on the topics of reputation and crisis management, the media, leadership and strategy, perception and psychology, self-presentation, science, girls and women, organizational behavior and other articles of interest.

They are listed below with the most recent articles first, and to the side, by category.

We hope you enjoy them and would appreciate your comments. And whenever you have any favorite articles for us to add, please let us know so that we might include them for other readers to enjoy.

There is so much to read, so much to know, so many sources to follow. And the volume of news and information just keeps growing exponentially. How to keep up? Even more, how to rediscover the serendipity of learning something new and interesting for its own sake?

Here, for your enjoyment and interest, are the articles Temin and Company considers “must reads.” They are primarily on the topics of reputation and crisis management, the media, leadership and strategy, perception and psychology, self-presentation, science, girls and women, organizational behavior and other articles of interest.

They are listed below with the most recent articles first, and to the side, by category.

We hope you enjoy them and would appreciate your comments. And whenever you have any favorite articles for us to add, please let us know so that we might include them for other readers to enjoy.

Loved the interaction

Loved the interaction, stimulating, very helpful.”

—CEO, Fortune 100 Company, after first coaching session

This Embarrasses You and I*

Sue Shellenbarger, The Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2012

With more informal modes of communication like email, texting, and Twitter, “grammar gaffes” have become increasingly commonplace in the workplace. […read more]

The Temin Team

The Temin Team

Temin and Company consultants bring to clients a deep interdisciplinary expertise, strategic orientation, finely-honed judgment buttressed by research, flawless communications skills and an indefatigable commitment to excellence and exceeding client expectations.

Founded in 1997 by Davia Temin, who has led marketing for some of the world’s largest and most admired organizations, Temin and Company employs only A+++ strategists and tacticians to work on behalf of clients.

The Temin team is made up of marketing, media and communications strategists, crisis managers, writers, editors, thought leaders, lawyers, financial experts and leadership and communications coaches. Temin’s core team can be supplemented, on an as-needed basis, by other top subject matter experts.

davia temin

Davia Temin is a highly experienced marketing, media and reputation strategist, crisis manager, and leadership and communications coach.

As President and CEO of Temin and Company, a boutique management consultancy she founded in 1997, she leads their practice focused on international crisis, reputation, and risk management, with a specialty in cybersecurity, sexual harassment, and securities-related crisis management. Temin and Company also works with clients to create brand-distinguishing thought leadership and best practices in governance and corporate leadership, as well as to promote women’s leadership, and provide socially responsible marketing, media and social media strategy and execution.

Davia serves as the spokesperson for major organizations during crisis, coaches numerous global CEOs, is a frequent and popular public speaker, and advises worldwide corporations on the strategic direction of their women’s councils. She runs and moderates popular CEO and corporate programs including, most recently, “How to Survive, Thrive and Add Value During Difficult Times,” “Visionary Leadership,” and “Crisis Games.” She has appeared as a guest on every major network in the US, and numerous local and national television shows around the world.

Prior to starting Temin and Company, Davia led Corporate Marketing (marketing and media strategy, crisis management, reputation management and coaching, advertising, corporate social responsibility, product and new product marketing and partnerships) for GE Capital; Schroders; Scudder, Stevens and Clark; Citicorp Investment Bank; and Columbia Business School. She created and was the Producer of the extremely successful entertainment industry conference “The Business of Entertainment: The Big Picture.”

An Honors graduate of Swarthmore College, she attended Columbia University for her Masters Degree. She is a member of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College and has served as Chair of the College’s Long Range Planning Committee on Visibility and Leadership in Higher Education.

From 2005 to 2014, Davia served as the First Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Girl Scouts of The United States of America, and the Chair of the Board Fund Development Committee — launching their $1 Billion Campaign on their 100th Anniversary, the largest fundraising campaign for girls in the world. In addition, she is Chair of the Board of the India-based Video Volunteers — which empowers marginalized communities to produce stories, take action, and devise solutions. Previously a founding Board Member and Corporate Council Member of The White House Project, and Chair of the Board of Women’s eNews and of The Women’s Counseling Project, she currently serves on the Boards or Advisory Boards of, among many others: ProPublica; The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program of Columbia Journalism School; The Committee for Economic Development; WomenCorporateDirectors; Harvard Kennedy School’s Women’s Leadership Board; and Predmore Holdings. She also serves as an advisor to Chinook.ai and Springboard.ai.

She is a member of The Economic Club; The National Association of Corporate Directors; WomenCorporateDirectors; The Belizean Grove; The Women’s Forum; and The Harvard Club.

Davia was named a 2018 Enterprising Woman of the Year by Enterprising Women magazine. In 2017 she was honored by the National Organization for Women, accepting their Woman of Power & Influence Award for her “extensive achievement advancing women’s leadership in business, government, and society through a broad array of professional and nonprofit work both in the U.S. and around the world.” She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Trust Across America-Trust Around the World and for the fifth consecutive year was named a “Top Thought Leader in Trust.

In 2015, Davia was honored by the Girl Scouts of New York at their Gala Annual Dinner and presented with their highest award — the Pinnacle Award for Leadership — honoring her work as a business leader and role model for girls and women, within business and the greater communities. In 2014, Davia was chosen as a Delegate by the U.S. State Department to the Global Entrepreneurship Program.

She has also been honored as one of the “30 Outstanding Women” in the world by the National Council for Research on Women; and was named by the Girl Scouts of Greater New York as a Woman of Distinction as well as having served as their Gold Award Ceremony keynote speaker. Profiled in many business and leadership books — most recently Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works and Stiletto Network, as well as Wall Street Women, The Board Game, and Women on Board: Insider Secrets to Getting on a Board and Succeeding as a Director — she writes the “Reputation Matters” column for Forbes.com, is a contributor to Huffington Post and American Banker, and has written “Rebuilding Trust in the Financial Markets” for the book Trust, Inc.

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Your clarity, expertise and optimism pulled us out of the vortex

quotesYour clarity, expertise and optimism pulled us out of the vortex. You helped ‘clear the way’ for us to forge forth with important work. You have just talked us down from the brink…and saved an enormous amount of time and money. I haven’t felt so well taken care of, well, since I can’t remember when.”

—CMO, Major Global Corporation, in crisis

Davia, you are the best

Davia, you are the best. I am blessed to have you in my life.”

—Senior Executive, Fortune 100 Company

Enhancing Reputations

Enhancing Reputations

Marketing Through Ideas, Information, Expertise

Turning Intellectual Capital into True Thought Leadership

Using intellectual capital to help enhance corporate reputation and market presence, Temin and Company has been involved in helping create true thought leadership for clients before the term even existed.

Perfectly suited to today’s “information economy,” Temin and Company delves deeply into the expertise, data and intellectual capital of client companies, and helps them identify and create client communications, social media campaigns, white papers, authored articles, Congressional testimony, books, websites, surveys, calls to action, news releases and media advisories, blogs, videos, Q&As and other thought leadership vehicles of exceptional value.

Topics we have worked with include corporate governance, leadership, talent management, investment advice, market analysis, banking products and services, legal insight, biotechnological and medical advances, industrial applications, consumer trends, academic research, advocacy and global policy.

Excellence in thought and writing are attributes we seek to exhibit in every assignment, and have been told by web and publication editors to whom we have submitted our work that we make their jobs uncommonly easy.

Much is called thought leadership today, but most is thought followership disguised as leadership. We seek to help our clients develop true value-added insight, for use across traditional and social media, which helps to change the game in their industries, and add value to their organizations.

  • Creating and marketing through unparalleled thought leadership
  • Innovative public/media relations strategy, planning and execution
  • Marketing strategy and tactical execution
  • Strategic positioning and branding
  • Marketing training
  • Seminar and conference planning, moderating and speaking
  • Advisory board development
  • Strategic partnership creation
  • Internal communications
  • Social media strategy and execution
  • Financial deal support
  • Marketing organization evaluation
  • Writing and editing internal and external communications
  • Speechwriting
  • Strategic Integrated Marketing Communications Planning – Training, Development and Counsel
  • Competitive analysis
  • Logo and corporate identity creation
  • Marketing materials and video production
  • Public strategies/affairs counsel
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Creating Reputations

Creating Reputations

In today’s ever-more complex, media-saturated world, reputation often trumps all.

Increasingly Boards of Directors are listing reputation as one of their top governance concerns. CEOs are devoting more and more of their time to understanding, protecting and promoting their organizations’ reputation. And building, or rebuilding, trust and a positive presence among stakeholders has become a prime management concern.

Reputation affects share price, marketplace acceptance and sales, government regulation, and which employees accept job offers as well as their retention and job satisfaction.

Whether it be for new companies, organizations, products or ventures, Temin and Company has deep experience in creating trustworthy and powerful reputations, strategic visibility, breakthrough marketing plans, competitive analyses, messaging and positioning, and print, broadcast and social media presence. Temin and Company helps clients create the right presence – with the right audiences – that is aligned perfectly with their strategic goals.

To achieve this, we work with clients and their boards in a variety of ways, conducting extensive research, SWOT and other competitive analyses, interviews with customers and structured brainstorming sessions. We help clients identify target constituencies – and then messaging and positioning tailored to each audience.

We create strategic marketing and tactical plans and then help our clients execute those plans for maximum impact.

We seek to bring fresh, innovative thinking to all of our efforts, whether working with the press on a launch, creating targeted messaging for websites, social media, or internal and external communications.

Our clients recognize us for learning their businesses and their needs very quickly, enabling them to establish the right tone and presence immediately out of the gate.

  • Work with boards on corporate governance issues
  • Refine value propositions and mission, vision and brand statements
  • Strategic marketing plan development
  • Competitive/SWOT analysis
  • Strategic positioning
  • Message development
  • Marketing training and counsel
  • Market research
  • New company and new product introduction
  • Creative coordination of branding, graphic design and advertising
  • Media strategy and implementation
  • Media and speaker training
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Services

Services

Temin and Company provides a wide array of services to help create, enhance, refine and save reputations for clients.

We pride ourselves on providing exceptional, integrated, individually tailored and research-based marketing, media and thought leadership strategies, coaching and action to perfectly meet clients’ needs.

We seek to create long-term partnerships with our clients and their boards, and to provide strategic counsel and implementation throughout every stage of their growth.

Although every engagement is unique, our partnership may include one, several or even more of the services below, or may change as clients’ needs evolve.

Creating Reputations»

  • Work with boards on corporate governance issues
  • Refine value propositions and mission, vision and brand statements
  • Strategic marketing plan development
  • Competitive/SWOT analysis
  • Strategic positioning
  • Message development
  • Marketing training and counsel
  • Market research
  • New company and new product introduction
  • Creative coordination of branding, graphic design and advertising
  • Media strategy and implementation
  • Media and speaker training

Enhancing Reputations»

  • Creating and marketing through unparalleled thought leadership
  • Innovative public/media relations strategy, planning and execution
  • Marketing strategy and tactical execution
  • Strategic positioning and branding
  • Marketing training
  • Seminar and conference planning, moderating and speaking
  • Advisory board development
  • Strategic partnership creation
  • Internal communications
  • Social media strategy and execution
  • Financial deal support
  • Marketing organization evaluation
  • Writing and editing internal and external communications
  • Speechwriting
  • Strategic integrated marketing communications planning – training, development and counsel
  • Competitive analysis
  • Logo and corporate identity creation
  • Marketing materials and video production
  • Public strategies/affairs counsel

Saving Reputations»

  • Crisis preparation and planning
  • Risk analysis
  • Crisis management, strategy and communications
  • Serving as spokesperson for organizations or individuals in crisis
  • Litigation support and expert witness testimony
  • Market, competitive or strategic research and due diligence
  • Marketing strategy to retain business during crisis
  • Reputation “rehabilitation”
  • Rebuilding trust
  • Crisis and business recovery

Coaching for Leadership»

  • CEO leadership, strategy and communications coaching
  • Personalized speech and presentation coaching
  • Personalized media training
  • Small group presentation skills, speech training and media coaching
  • Tailored training and coaching sessions and seminars (“How to Survive, Thrive and Add Value in Difficult Times,” “Enhancing Your Power, Influence and Value,” “Crisis Case Role-play,” “Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Fast-Track Growth,” “Women’s Leadership,” etc.)
  • Advising corporate women’s councils and diversity efforts for maximum impact
  • Road show and investor conference preparation and coaching
  • Guided idea generation
  • Strategic planning facilitation

Speaking and Moderating»

  • Keynote speaker
  • Panel moderator
  • Crisis case role-play presentation
  • Seminar and conference planning, moderating and facilitating
  • Presenter (“Executive Leadership and Presence in Times of Crisis and Challenge,” “Rebuilding Trust in the Financial Markets,” “Overcoming Career Derailers to Get Back on Track,” “What Boards Need to Know about Social Media,” “Interviewing Skills of Investigative Journalists,” “Earning and Rebuilding Reputations and Trust,” “Resilience – Seven Times Down; Eight Times Up,” “Crisis Management 1001 – What To Do When the Firestorm Hits,” “Leading Through Difficult Times,” “Fast-Track Career Growth,” “Wall Street, Volatility & Reputation,” “What Directors Need to Know About Reputational Risk,” etc)
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