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Bruce Hennes is CEO of Hennes Communications, one of the few firms in North America focused on crisis communications and crisis management.

Hennes Communications serves corporations, government agencies, education and healthcare institutions, professional service firms and nonprofits that are “on trial” in the Court of Public Opinion.

Bruce has over 40 years’ experience in communications, with a past and present client list that includes Avery Dennison, Lubrizol, NASA, ThyssenKrupp, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Interlake Steamship, United Way of Cleveland, Kent State University and MetroHealth Hospital System, as well as law firms across the U.S.

An associate professor in the Scripps School of Communications at Ohio University, an adjunct professor at Cleveland State University and a longtime member of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Leadership Academy faculty, Bruce is a member of the executive committee of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and he’s chairman of the Leadership Cleveland Selection Committee.

Bruce is also individually ranked by Chambers and Associates in the category of Crisis and Risk Management.

“If you say the right thing in the wrong way, a crisis can be created. A crisis of communications... a crisis of confidence. When they (Hennes Communications) do their job best, there is no crisis.”
Ron Fountain (former) Chairman of the Board MetroHealth System Read more testimonials