#1818 – 1177 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6N6 Canada
Country code: 1
(T) 604-689-8801
(F) 604-689-8831
Contact(s):
Wayne Hartrick, President
(T) 604 689-8801
(F) 604-689-8831
(E) wh@reputations.com
Linda Bilben, Senior Counsel, Creative Director
(T) 604-689-8801
(F) 604-689-8831
(E) biliben@reputations.com
Michael Davis, Senior Counsel, Director of Operations
(T) 604-689-8801
(F) 604-689-8831
(E) mdavis@reputations.com
Reputations Corporation – Build, Manage, Protect
Reputations Corporation is an award winning, full-service communications and
reputation management agency based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. For the past 12
years it has helped clients build, manage and protect their reputations through
a variety of strategic services and innovative, proprietary reputation
management tools and products.
We bring a combination of unique skills and experience in reputation measurement
and management, journalism, marketing communications, and business to create
customized reputations management strategies that close the gap between our
clients’ desired and actual reputations. Our clients benefit from our
understanding of how reputations are built and lost, as well as from our
extensive knowledge of print and electronic journalism, corporate
communications, brand development and management, public consultation, and
stakeholder relations.
Some of our innovative programs include:
Rep Audit: A product that measures the gap
between an organization’s “desired” reputation and the “actual” reputation, and
sets out four components for the organization: 1) what is the desired state of
reputation, 2) what is the “actual” reputation, 3) where are the gaps, 4) how to
bridge those gaps.
Rep Multiplier: A communication system that
turns branch locations into independent and dynamic PR generators using online
tools and regular coaching from PR professionals. It leverages big-picture PR or
marketing communications campaigns by localizing the messaging and tactics
through individual locations.
Rep Driver: the first all-in-one,
personalized, interactive marketing communications tool that combines voice,
e-mail, streaming video, photos, slideshows, links, blogs and other components
that carry messaging.
PR Made Easy: E-learning self-contained PR
communications guides, templates and courses that allow smaller businesses,
organizations, or individuals to do their own Public Relations.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
• Reputation measurement & management
• Olympic sponsorship opportunities
• Media relations
• Media training
• Media monitoring
• Community relations
• Crisis management
• Research & analysis
• Internet PR
• Investor relations
• Issues management
• Government relations
• Editorial and speechwriting services
• Video and documentary production
• News content/impact analysis
• Marketing / brand ID
• Corporate social responsibility
• Facilitation
• Stakeholder relations
• Event production
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Wayne Hartrick – President, Reputations Corporation
Wayne has been offering strategic counsel to clients in North America, Europe
and Asia for more than 15 years. He has been instrumental in building two
successful communications consulting firms, speaks internationally on the future
of public relations, and has counselled clients facing crisis here and abroad,
across a wide range of industry sectors. He holds an APR (Accreditation in
Public Relations) and is an accreditation examiner for the Canadian Public
Relations Society. Wayne is a past member of the Vancouver City Planning
Commission, past chair of the Vancouver Blueway Task Force and sat on the Board
of Directors of the Vancouver Maritime Museum. He also sat on the Board of
Directors for the Port of Vancouver, chairing the Communications Committee. He
is active in provincial and civic politics, acting as the Campaign and
Communications Chair on several successful campaigns. Wayne currently sits on
the Board of Directors of the Nanitch Policy Society, a society dedicated to
improving the economic and social well being of individuals faced with
disability. Wayne leads Reputations Corporation’s 2010 Olympic Games consulting.
Michael Davis – Director of Operations and
Senior Counsel
Michael coordinates all aspects of major accounts, specializing in project
management. He has extensive experience designing and implementing public
consultations, as well as juggling the needs of complex multi-stakeholder
projects, and has extensive public relations and issues strategy experience.
Michael is a graduate of the Royal Roads University Public Relations Management
Program and has provided issues management and crisis communication for major
clients such as Wal-Mart Canada, the City of Fort St. John, Insite and the
District of Kitimat. Michael’s internal responsibilities as Director of
Operations give him a unique perspective on the integration of reputation
management into clients’ operations.
Linda Bilben – Creative Director and Senior
Counsel
Linda has more than 15 years of senior-level generalist experience, specializing
in corporate branding, marketing communications program development and
implementation and international media relations. Linda's expertise spans in the
entire scope of marketing, organizational development and public relations.
Linda has worked as a communications consultant with government institutions,
public companies and private enterprise since 1990. A senior marketing
communications strategist, she develops brands and marketing strategies for the
most-recognized entertainment facilities in Canada, creates tourism and economic
development programs for municipalities in British Columbia and designs
reputation auditing, management and crisis programs in a variety of sectors,
including commercial development and natural resources.
SELECT CLIENT LIST
• 2010 Legacies Now
• Translink
• Tim Hortons
• Silver Standard Resources
• BC Place Stadium
• Methanex Corporation
• Happy Planet
• The Resort Municipality of Whistler
• District of Kitimat
• City of Fort St. John
• Wal-Mart
• Science World
• The Ethical Funds Company
• Credentials Securities
• Coast Mountain Bus Company
