Strategic Communications · Crisis Narrative
Trauma-Informed Consulting

Some organizations need better messaging.
Others need someone who has been inside the fire.

I work with nonprofits, healthcare organizations, advocacy groups, and mission-driven leaders navigating reputational crisis, broken trust, and the communications failures that follow. My work combines 15+ years of high-stakes communications experience with a depth of expertise most consultants cannot access because they have not lived it. I have.

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Amanda Bowen
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Gubernatorial Appointee · FL Emergency Response Commission
Nationally Adopted Crisis Frameworks
Six Sigma · Green Belt
Published · Havok Journal 2025
Certified Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Coach
Ambassador · Men's Health Network
Ambassador · Movember
Who I Work With

You have a communications problem
that is really a trust problem.

Most communications consultants treat them as separate things. They are not. I work at the intersection of narrative, crisis, and human complexity. The place where standard messaging strategy breaks down.

Your organization is in crisis and the standard playbook is making it worse.

Crisis communications that do not account for survivor dynamics, community trauma, or power imbalance will deepen the wound. You need someone who understands what is actually happening in the room and read it in real time. Not just what the press release should say.

Trust has broken down between your organization and the people you serve.

Rebuilding trust requires more than better language. It requires an honest accounting of what happened, a narrative framework that holds the complexity, and a communications strategy that people with reason to be skeptical will actually believe.

Your communications don't reflect the work you're really doing.

The gap between an organization's mission and its public voice is visible to the people it claims to serve. Closing that gap is credibility and safety, not branding.

How I Work

Three ways to work together.

Each engagement is built to your situation. I do not offer templates. I offer the specific expertise your organization needs, applied directly to the problem you are facing.

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Crisis & Strategic Communications

For organizations navigating active crisis, reputational damage, or the communications fallout of a trust breakdown. I assess the situation, close the narrative gaps, and build a response strategy that holds under pressure.

  • Rapid crisis assessment and response framework
  • Stakeholder messaging architecture
  • Media strategy and spokesperson preparation
  • Internal communications alignment
  • Post-crisis narrative rebuild
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Trauma-Informed Narrative Consulting

For organizations whose work touches survivors, coercive control, domestic violence, sexual trauma, or behavioral health. When your communications strategy has not caught up to the complexity of that work.

  • Communications audit through a trauma-informed lens
  • Narrative framework development
  • Survivor-facing content and messaging review
  • Staff and leadership messaging training
  • Public-facing language overhaul
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03

Speaking & Training

Available for conferences, leadership retreats, organizational training days, and advocacy events. Topics include crisis communications, trauma-informed narrative strategy, coercive control dynamics, and men's emotional health.

  • Keynote and breakout session formats
  • Half-day and full-day training available
  • Custom curriculum development
  • Facilitated leadership conversations
  • Colorado-based, available nationally
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About Amanda

The combination of expertise no competitor can replicate.

I spent fifteen years in high-stakes communications environments including state emergency response, national healthcare policy, nonprofit advocacy. That was before the work became personal in a way that changed everything I thought I knew about crisis, trust, and narrative.

In my personal survival and rebuilding, I developed a depth of understanding about power, manipulation, institutional failure, and the communications that either protect survivors or abandon them. Understanding that no classroom produces.

I work with organizations that do important things for people who have been through hard things. That work requires a specific kind of communications discipline. One that does not flatten human complexity into a talking point and does not treat a trust problem as a messaging problem.

"I am not here because I have all the answers. I am here because I have been inside the questions that matter most."

I am based in Denver, Colorado.
I work with organizations across the country.

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Credentials & Background

Gubernatorial Appointment, Florida State Emergency Response Commission Directed crisis communications for statewide disasters reaching millions of Floridians
Director of Communications, Florida Poultry Federation Led statewide response during the 2015 Avian Influenza outbreak; framework nationally adopted
Certified Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Specialist Dr. Himani Sharma, 2025
Published Author, Havok Journal Havok Journal, 2025
National Ambassador, Men's Health Network Advancing men's emotional health access and reducing stigma
National Ambassador, Movember Raw Signal campaign: men's health through music and authentic storytelling
Founder, The Survivor Record National anonymous survey platform documenting survivor experiences with law enforcement
BA Communications, Florida State University Six Sigma Green Belt
Leader of the Year, Florida Leadership Academy 2015–2018
Florida Trend, Person to Know
Selected Work

Real work. Real stakes.

A selection of projects, campaigns, and platforms that demonstrate the range and depth of this work.

Campaign · Strategic Communications

Raw Signal

A men's health campaign built in partnership with Movember and Men's Health Network, using the music of Colorado punk band The Sleights to create authentic entry points into men's mental and emotional health conversations. Full creative direction, campaign strategy, content production, and partner coordination for a June 2026 Men's Health Month launch.

Platform · Research · Advocacy

The Survivor Record

A national anonymous survey platform documenting survivor experiences with law enforcement response and systemic failure. Original primary research platform producing data no other outlet owns. Built to support investigative publication, legislative testimony, and policy advocacy at the state and federal level.

Writing · Content

Published — Audience Development

A body of published writing spanning psychological frameworks, trauma recovery, identity, and relational dynamics. Developed across multiple public platforms and distributed to a combined audience in the veteran, LGBTQ+, kink, survivor, and alternative lifestyle communities. Work ranges from long-form analytical essays to cognitive and behavioral psychology fraameworks. Demonstrated ability to translate complex psychological material into writing that lands and that audiences return to.

Crisis Response · Framework

2015 Avian Influenza Response

Led statewide communications and media response during one of the most significant agricultural crises in American history working with media, consumers, government agencies, and national partners. The communications framework developed during this response was subsequently adopted nationally as a model for agricultural crisis response.

What People Say

The work lands.

From readers, community members, and people who have encountered this work in the wild. Before there was a brand, just a voice that changed something.

"This was powerful and profound writing. It is immensely helpful and I think everyone needs to read this or have it explained to them in their formative years. Your words will embolden people and save them from many moments where they may be pressured into taking unwanted debt. It was very impactful."
—Katie N.
"I felt a need to reach out to thank you for sharing your thoughts and writing all that you do. It has been a catalyst for me to investigate my shame and to take up space and not apologize for it. You have helped me in an immeasurable way."
—Hector A.
"The way you talk about that deep-rooted shame and the struggle to feel safe in your own body again hits home. That mix of hope and the back-and-forth in your own mind is a lot to carry. But your words make it feel a little lighter. It really means something."
—Phillip M.
"I'm not sure you understand how much the writing means to me right now. I am not sure how to thank you for helping me not feel so bad."
—Jake B.
"We need more women like you in the world. It is hard to be vulnerable when it is used against you later on. Thank you for being a voice for change and impact."
—Steve S.
"Your intellect jumps off the page. There is so much coming from you that is different. Your writing shows strength, an understanding of who you were meant to be, and the struggles you have faced. There is something very human about you."
—Heather E.
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Tell me what you are navigating.

I do not take every engagement. I take the ones where I can make a genuine difference. That means where the work matters, where the organization is ready to do it honestly, and where my specific combination of expertise is what the situation actually requires.

If that sounds like where you are, I want to hear from you.

Response time: I respond to all inquiries within two business days. If your situation is urgent, note that in your message and I will prioritize accordingly.