Edge Crisis IntelligenceCounsel before — and through — the first hours
Situation Brief · For Executives & Governing Boards

A crisis is won or lost at its edge — the first hours, before the story hardens.

Most organizations meet a crisis in real time, with no warning and no counsel in the room. As a crisis communications consultant and senior adviser, Scott Toncray changes both: early awareness of what's forming, and twenty years of field-tested executive crisis counsel beside you when it breaks.

20+ Years of Executive Counsel FEMA Field PIO — Hurricane Katrina Supported Ministries Serving 90+ Countries Accredited in Public Relations (APR)
The Practice

Edge Crisis Intelligence is a boutique executive advisory practice focused exclusively on crisis readiness, reputation stewardship, and executive decision support for mission-driven organizations.

Intelligence • Judgment • Stewardship • Trust
01 / Situation

Conventional corporate PR is not enough when the mission itself is at risk.

A mission-driven organization in crisis risks more than revenue. It can lose something harder to rebuild: the confidence of customers, donors, staff, boards, partners, and the communities it exists to serve.

Edge Crisis Intelligence brings crisis management consulting and reputation management built for that reality — watching the horizon before the crisis, standing beside leadership through the first 24 hours of crisis response, and staying for the long work of rebuilding trust afterward.

  • Faith-based nonprofits & ministriesExperienced counsel for denominations, mission agencies, Christian nonprofits, and faith-based institutions where credibility is inseparable from the mission.
  • Disaster relief & humanitarian organizationsCrisis communications for teams operating in high-stakes, high-scrutiny field environments.
  • Purpose-led companies & institutionsOrganizations whose values, stakeholder relationships, and license to lead depend on sustained public trust.
  • Mission-driven boards & executivesLeaders who need a steady, experienced voice at the table — not a vendor.
02 / Capabilities

Crisis readiness, crisis communications planning, and crisis response — matched to where you are.

Standing Counsel

Crisis Readiness Retainer

Executive crisis counsel on call for your leadership team and board. Plans reviewed, scenarios rehearsed, and a trusted crisis management consultant already at the table when the phone rings.

Early Warning

Issues Monitoring & Advisory

The intelligence function most nonprofits never build: identifying the vulnerabilities and reputation risks that become tomorrow's headlines — with candid counsel before they do.

Preparedness

Crisis Planning & Preparedness

Gap analyses, crisis communications planning, crisis response playbooks, spokesperson preparation, and tabletop exercises — scoped, delivered, and built to be used.

03 / Reference · The Crisis Management Field Manual

A crisis management field manual for chief executives and governing boards.

Written for the leader in the chair, not the communications department. The Field Manual distills two decades of crisis communications counsel into the principles and decisions that determine whether an organization emerges with its trust intact.

Request Your Copy
04 / About

Crisis counsel earned in the field, not the conference room.

Senior crisis counsel for mission-driven organizations whose reputation, relationships, and ability to serve depend on public trust.

The organizations that survive a crisis are the ones that decided, long before it arrived, who they would be when it did. Scott E. Toncray, APR

Scott Toncray has spent more than twenty years advising executives through the moments that define organizations — as a FEMA Field Public Information Officer during Hurricane Katrina, as communications leadership for Wycliffe USA supporting ministries serving more than ninety countries, and in corporate roles with INFINITI Motor Corporation and Lonely Planet.

He has managed media and message in remote field environments from Papua New Guinea to East Africa, led campaigns that raised over $300 million for mission aviation, and now serves as a crisis communications consultant and executive crisis counsel to organizations whose work — and whose ability to serve — depends on public trust.

He holds the Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) from the Public Relations Society of America.

Scott Toncray in FEMA credentials standing amid storm debris in front of a casino barge pushed ashore by Hurricane Katrina
FEMA Field PIO · Hurricane Katrina response, Gulf Coast, 2005
Scott Toncray riding on the back of a motorbike with a video camera while documenting SIL language work among the Ik people in Uganda
Wycliffe assignment · Documenting SIL's work among the Ik people, Uganda
Scott Toncray with camera beside a Land Rover on a remote track in Tanzania with field team members
On assignment with field teams · Tanzania
Scott Toncray in an American Red Cross shirt on the WKRN-TV News 2 set ahead of a live interview
Red Cross national spokesperson · Baton Rouge Flood response, 2016
Scott Toncray with a young resident at an American Red Cross shelter during the Baton Rouge Flood response
At a Red Cross shelter · Baton Rouge Floods, 2016
Scott Toncray facilitating a crisis readiness workshop at a whiteboard with an executive team
Facilitating a crisis readiness workshop
05 / Contact

The best time to meet your crisis counsel is before you need them.

During our conversation, we'll walk through your current risks, communications readiness, governance questions, and immediate opportunities — confidential and without obligation.

Email Scott Directly
scott@scottetoncray.com
Georgetown, Kentucky · Serving clients nationwide and in the field worldwide