Bruce M. Hennes is the Managing Partner and Crisis Communications Specialist with Hennes Paynter Communications, one of the few firms in the U.S. focused exclusively on crisis communications, media training & litigation communications. Hennes has more than 30 years experience working in politics, including three years as Executive Director for The Temple on the Heights in Pepper Pike, Ohio, and three years doing government and public relations in the automotive industry. He opened his own firm in 1989. As one of Cleveland’s best-known crisis communications specialists and media trainers, Hennes is also an in-demand speaker on the subject of crisis communications. Under the auspices of local County Emergency Management Agencies, he often speaks before public safety, education and government officials about “Extreme Crisis Communications” (i.e. how to handle mass casualty and “extreme” situations involving threats to life & limb).