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ICM Senior Consultant, SEAN S. CLANCY has 25 years of corporate and agency communications experience, including Vice-President, Corporate Communications for the Shaw Group Inc., in Baton Rouge, LA and Vice-President, Corporate Communications for the Flowserve Corporation in Irving, TX and Washington, DC.
He also worked as Director, Corporate Communications, Union Carbide Corp., Danbury, CT and Vice President, Corporate Group, Shandwick Worldwide, Louisville, KY, where he led a 17-person team supporting Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. during the national onslaught of health-based product liability litigation. He and ICM President Larry Smith provided client’s Executive Management with litigation communication counsel and strategies encompassing proactive and reactive media relations, public affairs, issue advocacy, crisis management, employee relations, community relations, and supplier/dealer network communications.
Clancy led a crisis management team that preserved $50M in revenue at Flowserve. Faced with a volatile product liability issue involving a key customer, environmental groups, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the news media, Clancy constructed a multi-faceted strategy that allowed Flowserve to remain transparent with each audience. His work as a corporate spokesperson with the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, international wire services, community newspapers, and local television news enhanced the corporate reputation of Flowserve with each audience.
While working as director of Corporate Communications with Union Carbide Corporation Clancy created and executed the media relations strategy to publicize the Union Carbide acquisition by THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, guided the communications effort to resolve a third-party toxic spill and child cancer cluster in Toms River, New Jersey and devised the corporation’s tactical response to the 15th anniversary of the Bhopal, India chemical leak.
Before joining Shandwick, he was Manager, Public Affairs for the Rhone-Poulenc Basic Chemicals Company, where Clancy devised the media relations, government affairs and community relations strategies for six chemical plants seeking U.S. EPA permits to treat liquid hazardous waste. .
While at Rhone-Poulenc, Clancy earned two “Premier Achievement Awards” – the company’s highest employee recognition award. The first was for a crisis communication strategy when a plant maintenance error caused a massive explosion and environmental release, killing one employee and severely injuring another. Within days, he developed and began executing a crisis communication and community relations strategy linked to the one-year rebuild of the chemical plant. His effort successfully mitigated negative publicity and built relationships with key officials, ultimately convincing the community’s City Manager – a severe public critic of the company’s operation and expansion plan -- to attest to Building Code requirements that generated an additional $1.2M insurance compensation.
Clancy earned a second award for a litigation support strategy when a dispute arose with the host community’s City Council over the local preemption of federal hazardous waste regulations.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Relations from Northern Illinois University. |
