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Bart Mindszenthy, APR, FCPRS, LM, and Gail Harcourt-Roberts first worked together in 1988 on what’s considered the ‘Canadian sports scandal of the 20th century’ while each was managing a full service public relations company. In 1990 they founded Toronto-based The Mindszenthy & Roberts Corporation. The firm provides organizations in all sectors with counsel and support in strategic communications planning; major change, conflict, and crisis communications; issues management; and, internal/organizational communications.
Since founding the firm, they’ve worked on some of the most high profile Canadian issues, conflicts and crises, and have provided counsel and support to more than 200 organizations across Canada and abroad, helping them through delicate situations including white collar crime, alleged sexual abuse, mergers, divestments, acquisitions, downsizing's and reorganizations, and myriad challenging other issues.
Gail and Bart are frequent in-house workshop leaders and conference presenters, drawing on more than 60 collective years of experience in public relations management. They offer a national virtual team of senior level associates who provide complimentary areas of expertise. As well, they are both Associate Faculty members in the MBA program at Royal Roads University’s Faculty of Management.
They are the creators of a suite of communications-based training programs.
Gail is former Chair of The Speech and Stuttering Institute , which conducts research into—and works with people suffering from—severe speech disorders. She is a member of the American Association of Training and Development. Bart is a Past President of The Empire Club of Canada, the country’s speaking forum of record, and a Director of the Communications & Public Relations Foundation and the Psychology Foundation of Canada. He is an accredited member of the Canadian Public Relations Society and an elected member of its College of Fellows, and a member of the Counselors Academy of the Public Relations Society of America.
Bart's first co-authored book in 1988, No Surprises: The Crisis Communications Management System, became a best seller and is acknowledged as the seminal work on the subject. Bart’s 2001 co-authored book,Leadership@Work: How to be an Effective Team Leader Anywhere, Anytime, with Anyone,spent 10 months on the year's business best sellers list. His 2002 co-authored book, Parenting Your Parents: Support Strategies for Meeting the Challenge of Aging in the Family, is now a best seller with a revised second edition in 2005, and an American version published in 2006.