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Communication Excellence

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To help you meet your personal, professional, and business goals through effective business storytelling, enhance your crisis communication strategies, and strengthen your leadership brand identity.

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As your partner in building the future, our communications experience, skills, and insights in business storytelling and crisis communication help advance your business goals – not just when things go well, but also when your leadership brand identity is at stake.

About Us

Success in any field requires sharply-defined goals and a demonstrated ability to understand and address the needs of your customers, partners, and other stakeholders. Straightforward, strategically-targeted communication is essential – both internally and externally, including outreach to media and public officials when appropriate. Effective business storytelling plays a crucial role in this process, helping to convey your message clearly and compellingly.


Chase Media professionals leverage decades of experience in journalism, media relations, strategic planning, crisis communication, marketing, public policy, politics, personal outreach, social media, and other disciplines to enhance your leadership brand identity.


How may we help you? From our breadth and depth of professional communication experience and expertise, we stand ready to offer you our comprehensive skills and services that are focused on your needs and goals. We carefully analyze your challenges and aspirations and then formulate and execute plans to help you achieve your goals.

Our Team

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President and Founder

Dianne Lynn Chase is the Principal and founder of Chase Media, which specializes in expert services such as crisis communication, media relations, and media training. The company focuses on developing leadership brand identity through effective message development, issues management, and planning. Additionally, Chase Media offers instruction in business storytelling and presentation and interviewing skills training for corporate, non-profit, and government clients.

Ms. Chase has extensive experience as a spokesperson and on-the-scene media consultant in crisis communication situations for a variety of clients, including international business concerns. With a robust career in broadcast journalism, she brings a wealth of insight, knowledge, and unique experience to serving client partners. Her ability to craft compelling business storytelling helps clients effectively communicate their messages during critical times.


Her work includes establishing positive media relationships and events for clients, conducting numerous successful media interviews on behalf of client partners, and developing a writing improvement course for key communicators with the U.S. Forest Service.


Ms. Chase has established expertise and comprehensive experience in high-level professional communications, crisis communication planning, training and management, media relations, public relations, executive communications coaching and consulting, and presentation skills training. She is a creative manager, organizational leader, professional instructor/trainer, communications consultant, freelance writer, and public speaker who has managed comprehensive campaigns to promote clients’ public policy positions and enhance their leadership brand identity.


Her broadcast journalism career includes positions throughout the Carolinas as news director, anchor, and reporter at top news radio stations. A winner of numerous local, state, regional, and national broadcast journalism awards, Ms. Chase served as an adjunct professor at UNC-Charlotte, Winthrop University, the University of Bucharest, Romania, and Knoxville Business College.


She is the past International Chair of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), past Chair of IABC Southern Region, and current president of IABC Charlotte.


Ms. Chase is a long-standing board member of the Radio-Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (formerly the Radio Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas). She was elected the organization’s first woman president and was the first RTNDAC president re-elected to a second consecutive term. She spearheaded record membership expansion, conference attendance, and budget growth for the organization. She currently serves on the board as Chair of Professional Development.


Her professional history includes: South Carolina Associated Press Broadcasters; Director Emeritus; Grand Strand Press Association; Director Emeritus; British Broadcasting Company (BBC) Correspondent; University of North Carolina at Charlotte/Adjunct Professor; Winthrop University/Adjunct Lecturer; University of Bucharest, Romania/Instructor in ‘Broadcast Journalism’/Visiting Professor of Broadcast Journalism.


Ms. Chase has served with several civic and philanthropic endeavors including: E4 Carolinas – Marketing and Communications Committee; Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority ‘Green Team’ ~ Communications Committee; Salvation Army Board of Directors/Charlotte, NC; Hope Haven, Inc. Board of Directors ~ Development/Public Relations Chair; National Multiple Sclerosis Society Mid-Atlantic Chapter Board of Directors ~ Public Relations and Special Events; Adopt-A-Cop Board of Directors; Hands On Charlotte; Board of Directors ~ Publicity and Communications Committee Chair/Captain; Coordinator; Media Spokesperson - various volunteer projects and annual signature events with record success for media coverage; Volunteer of the Year; Habitat for Humanity/Charlotte’s ‘Women Build’ ~ Steering Committee/PR.


Her professional awards include: Two Thousand Notable American Women; Mecklenburg Times ’50 Influential Women’ 2012; National Associated Press Broadcasters Enterprise Award; The Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Award; South Carolina Associated Press Best Newscast; RTNDAC Best Documentary Award; Angel Award.


Specialties: Crisis Communication; Crisis Communication Plans; Crisis Communication Training; Media Relations; Media Training; Executive Coaching; Presentation Skills Coaching; Message Development; Business Writing and Editing.

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Brent Gilroy -- Associate

For over 30 years, primarily in Washington, DC, Brent Gilroy has been instrumental in helping clients across various interest sectors achieve their goals through effective business storytelling and compelling communications initiatives. His work emphasizes educating key audiences and promoting meaningful action among private and public sector leaders, all while reinforcing leadership brand identity. 


As an independent public affairs counselor, and previously in senior roles at the Washington offices of Burson-Marsteller and Powell Tate, Brent has successfully led integrated lobbying and communications teams, collaborating with specialists in coalition building, opinion research, and other disciplines across sectors such as:


- Aerospace/Defense

- Biotechnology

- Energy

- Environment

- Healthcare

- Technology

- Transportation

- Trade


Brent's specific skills and services include:


- Ally Development & Coalition Management

- Coordination of Multi-Disciplinary Teams (including government relations, opinion research, and creative elements)

- Crisis Communication

- Materials Development (for internal & external use)

- Media Relations

- Media Training


Brent previously served as the chief aide to a member of the U.S. Congress and has experience as a journalist.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-gilroy-0697a6/

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The 7 Cs of the New Communication Compass

A strategic framework for mastering communication through seven principles: collaboration, connection, compassion, cohesion, community, congruency, and calibration, all of which are essential for effective business storytelling and crisis communication, ultimately driving a strong leadership brand identity to ensure organizational success.

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