Matt Barkett
Managing Director
Matt leads Dix & Eaton’s Crisis Communications practice, where he applies his broad-based experience in media relations, crisis situations, litigation PR and reputation management. The insightful strategic communications counsel he provides clients draws upon his background in senior roles with international and domestic public companies, in agency public relations and as a journalist.
Specializes in:
- From the board room during a hostile takeover attempt to the plant floor during a labor dispute, Matt delivers cool-headed strategic counsel for top management as it faces some of the most serious challenges organizations will ever encounter.
Selected engagements and background:
- Bankruptcy and mechanics strike, Northwest Airlines
- $50 billion merger of Qwest Communications and U S WEST
- Sago Mine accident in West Virginia, International Coal Group
- $16 billion acquisition of Imperial Chemical Industries by AkzoNobel
- Crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407
- M.B.A. and B.A. from the University of Colorado
- Active in support of Providence House, a crisis nursery
A-Z About Me:
P- Preparation. Advance crisis training can be the difference between an incident and a disaster.