As a 25-year practitioner, Kelly Bantle, M.S. is well-versed in public relations, brand and reputation management, marketing, and crisis communications. Throughout her career, she has provided consultation and managed a broad range of issues and crises as an in-house corporate communications manager at building products company, Louisiana Pacific (LP), and vice president of Pac/West Communications, an Oregon-based public affairs and strategic communications agency. Her crisis communications work includes handling one of the largest U.S. product litigation settlement cases (LP’s Inner-Seal siding class action lawsuit settlement), as well as an accidental manufacturing facility explosion that resulted in one fatality. Kelly also provided consultation during the tragic 2015 shooting at Umpqua Community College that drew national media attention. Kelly works today as an independent sole proprietor under the “doing business name”, Allegiant Strategies Northwest.
Kelly is actively involved in the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and currently serves on the board for Healthcare Communicators Northwest. She holds an MS in mass communications and a B.S. in journalism and broadcasting with a public relations option from Oklahoma State University.