Stafford Wood

Crisis Communication Expert

Topics: Crisis Communications, Business Preparedness, Communications Planning, Social Media and Emergency Management

As the owner of Baton Rouge-based Covalent Logic, Stafford Wood has garnered a stellar reputation among her clients and peers for conceiving brilliant concepts and executing genius technical solutions for websites, social media and public relations. Accredited by the Public Relations Society of America as an APR, she has been lauded in business, as well with 2011 Forty under 40 and 2012 Young Business Person of the Year by the Baton Rouge Business Report & Junior Achievement. The U.S. Chamber named Covalent Logic, an integrated communications firm, as one of 75 national Blue Ribbon Small Business Award winners.

Wood has spoken to numerous Public Relations and Communications conferences on the topic of Crisis Communications and is a frequent guest speaker at the Manship School of Mass Communication. She was a speaker for the Public Relations Society of America with the topic “#SocMe Like a Hurricane: Confessions and Digital Lessons from Five Years of Wind, Water and Oil in Louisiana”

Covalent Logic has worked with clients during crises ranging from the Arab Spring, Whitney Houston’s death, the Japan Earthquake, and a host of disasters in Louisiana, most notably 72 days of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.