Crisis Management

Anna Fang is experienced with Crisis Management and Crisis Communications and she gained this experience while working at the US multi-national corporation Motorola, and the Hong Kong corporation Hutchison Telephone for eight years.

Media Training

For media training, she implemented half-day sessions for the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management (HKIHRM), and the Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management for the Hong Kong Police Force.

For the Hong Kong Police Force, she trained police officers in a management program organised by the Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management. Her module on the media was how to handle the media in challenging public situations.

For the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management, she ran a half day workshop to Human Resource directors about how the media works and how they can act in collaboration with their Corporate Communication departments to disseminate the same message to their employees during a crisis and for global initiatives.

Her half day public relations and media seminars cover public relations, corporate image building, examples of good and bad public relations and how to deal with crisis situations that may face corporations. She stresses the importance of forward planning and organising an action plan or playbook on how to deal with possible crisis situations.

Speaker at Regional and International Conferences:

• Moderator, BPW International Young BPW Conference, session on women in business, Seoul, Korea, May 2007
  
  
• Speaker, Association of Business Communications, 7th Asia Pacific Conference, Hong Kong, March 2007 on "Case Study on How to Obtain Publicity for a Woman's Organisation in Hong Kong":
  
  
• Moderator, Global Summit of Women, Session on Women in Health Care, Korea, 2003
  
  
• Speaker, Women in Business Conference organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
  
  
• Moderator, Hong Kong Polytechnic University's English Club, "How to Prepare for Your Career"
  
  
• Moderator, Hong Kong Baptist University's IABC Student Chapter, "Close-up View of Communicators", 2001
  
  
• Moderator, Hong Kong Baptist University's IABC Student Chapter, "Career Opportunities in Public Relations, Marketing and Communications", 2000
  
  
• Speaker, International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Conference on regional corporate communications for a multi-national corporation in Asia, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA), 1999
  
  
• Speaker, International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) on the subject of doing public relations in China from 1988-1992 (Hong Kong), 1993

 

Anna Fang's Journalistic Experience

Anna was a journalist for the print and broadcast media for ten years and worked at the following US-based media from 1973-1982:

Oregon Daily Emerald, University of Oregon, (Eugene, Oregon), political and social issues writer

Corvallis Gazette-Times, (Corvallis, Oregon),  freelance writer, columnist, and executive secretary as a high school student

Eugene Magazine, (Eugene, Oregon), advertising sales representative

KWAX-FM (Eugene, Oregon), commentator and moderator of a public affairs show

KRLT-FM (Lake Tahoe, California), radio news announcer

Sea Grant Communications, Sea Grant College Program (Corvallis, Oregon), assistant to the Public Affairs Director