About Us

Protecting your most important asset

Your Reputation.

Checkmate Public Affairs helps calm fears, create trust and make scary headlines disappear.

Checkmate is led by Jeff Chatterton - a specialist in changing the stories people tell about you and your organization.

Chatterton is a crisis specialist, a public speaker, and the co-author of the successful book "Leaders Under Fire."

He has spoken about reputation management, risk, and crisis communications to thousands of industry leaders across the globe.

Experience

Some of the organizations we have worked with:

SPEAKING (BY THE NUMBERS)

Over 200 Live Workshops & Keynote Speeches.

100+ Live News Interviews and Podcast Appearances.

Jeff Chatterton talks managing crises in tourism & hospitality on BV-TV

Jeff Chatterton – Empathy in Times of Crisis

The Do’s and Don’ts of Crisis Management

627: Leaders Under Fire, Jeff Chatterton, Checkmate Public Affairs

Why most companies prepare for the WRONG type of crisis – if they prepare at all.

Leaders Under Fire-Part 1 @jchatterton with @TheDovBaron

Jeff Chatterton talks managing crises in tourism & hospitality on BV-TV

https://www.bizvision.co.uk/series/bvtv-business-of-hospitality/ BV-TV Business of Hospitality Channel host Malcolm Gallagher says; Of the sectors hurt the most from the pandemic, Travel Tourism & Hospitality has certainly born the brunt of the impact and is likely to continue to do so for many years to come. As someone who has worked in those businesses for 50 years, I know how they are reeling, working hard to recover, and under pressure. But they are also emotional businesses where the media loves a negative story. So I have asked back my guest for today, a true cross communications management expert in those great sectors. He knows about crisis pressure, he’s written the book about it Leaders Under Fire: The CEO’s Survival Guide to Navigating Corporate Crisis.” From CheckMate Public Affairs lets go say hello again to Jeff Chatterton. My Business of Travel, Tourism & Hospitality talk with Jeff will be in 3 parts –First I’ll ask him his advice on avoiding creating crisis during recovery. In part 2 I’ll ask him about emerging crisis trends and in part 3 we’ll focus on hotels and talk about reputation management at a time of crisis.