CHRIS WINANS CONSULTING LLC
35 Years of Communications
Experience
Communications expertise and support on reputation, crisis, media relations and thought leadership for companies, with a particular focus on insurers and other financial services sectors
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Financial regulation – seven years at insurance rating agency A.M. Best and over two years with Promontory Financial Group, a leading regulatory advisor
CWC Clients
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U.S. annuity writer (media strategy, C-suite positioning)
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Rating agency (nonexecutive independent director)
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Multiline global insurance group (U.S. media relations)
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Top-10 U.S. life insurer (content creation)
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Mid-size commercial insurer (crisis preparedness)
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U.S. life insurer (communications for CEO transition)
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Insurtech startup (PR support leading to firm’s acquisition)
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Management consultant (writing-skills coaching)
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Oil & gas developer (PR support in global legal dispute)
Client Articles
by Cindy Malone of innovation/design consultancy Maddock Douglas
We hold in awe visionaries like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett. Somehow, these people—probably certifiable geniuses—saw the future before anyone else did in their fields. Heck, they essentially reinvented their fields—information digitization, transportation, retail and value investing.
The 6 Ways to Grow a Company
by Gino Chirio, executive vice president at the innovation/design consultancy Maddock Douglas
Using Apple as an example, he shows where growth comes from--new products, new services, new markets, new ways of doing the same things (in a word, innovation), then offers a simple four-part model for allocating innovation dollars for maximum return and minimum risk.
About Us
Corporate Communications
Chris draws his expertise from more than 30 years as a journalist, a Wall Street financial analyst, a corporate and crisis communications advisor, and a thought-leadership strategist. He has helped firms manage reputation risk through waves of financial and regulatory turmoil.
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Chris has advised financial services companies—including global life and non-life insurers, banks, asset managers and management consultants, among others—in both corporate-communications and agency roles.
His work experience spans:
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Journalism – 22 years, including 10 at The Wall Street Journal
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Investment banks – five years as an insurance industry equity analyst, including Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers
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Corporate and crisis communications – 20 years, including AIG, AXA, Hill & Knowlton and CWC
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Financial regulation – seven years at insurance rating agency A.M. Best and over two years at regulatory advisor Promontory Financial Group, an IBM company
Chris Winans
Why Choose Us
We provide strategic support and execution focused on corporate reputation enhancement, protection, and repair, with a particular focus on the financial services sector. Services include C-suite positioning and related content creation focused on showcasing leadership expertise and insight.
​​A reputation as a trusted enterprise takes decades to build, minutes to destroy and much longer to rebuild. Having a strategy based on transparency and a clearly articulated social purpose is critical – a strategy that resonates first and foremost with employees, followed by customers, business partners, communities, regulators, and shareholders.