Leadership transitions
Founder-to-CEO handoffs, executive hires and departures, succession announcements.
Senior communications counsel for defining moments
Sooner or later, every company faces a situation in which communications can determine the outcome: a leadership change, a hard restructuring, a regulatory challenge, a deal, or a reputational crisis.
Turnbank exists for these moments, providing the caliber of counsel that large companies retain elite special-situations firms for, delivered directly by a senior practitioner with nearly 20 years in corporate communications and corporate affairs.
One advisor, total discretion, right there with you when it matters.
Built for high-stakes situations
Workforce changes
Restructurings, layoffs, site closures, return-to-office mandates, culture inflection points.
Funding and transactions
Capital raises, M&A, strategic partnerships, IPO readiness.
Financial and investor matters
Earnings pressure, guidance changes, shareholder scrutiny.
Regulatory and legal challenges
Investigations, litigation, government scrutiny, public affairs and policy matters.
Reputational crises
Product failures, executive misconduct, viral public backlash.
Operational and safety incidents
Service outages, security and data breaches, workplace emergencies.
Board and governance events
Director changes, activist pressure, sensitive issues.
How it works
Turnbank works alongside in-house teams and existing agencies. Your team handles the day-to-day, while Turnbank focuses on the matter at hand, without the weight of internal politics or relationships.
Readiness assessment
A structured audit of how prepared your company is for the scenarios it's most likely to face, assessing narratives, protocols, spokespeople, and vulnerabilities, delivered as a written report and a leadership working session.
The right first engagement; typically 3-4 weeks.
First call
A standing retainer for the quiet periods: regular senior briefings, early-warning advice on emerging issues, and guaranteed priority access the day a defining moment arrives.
Designed so that when it happens, you're ready on day one.
Active engagements
End-to-end communications leadership through a defined event: strategy, stakeholder sequencing, message architecture, spokesperson preparation, execution, and post-event stabilization.
Scoped accordingly, from a weeklong crisis to a nine-month transformation.
Engagements span high-growth companies through global enterprises.
Why Turnbank
01
You work directly with the principal
No account team, no juniors learning on your time, no overhead.
02
Discretion as a discipline
Small circle of knowledge, absolute confidentiality, no client-name marketing. The work stays quiet; that's the point.
03
Speed
No scoping committees, no staffing plans, no ramp-up. Engagements move at the pace the situation demands.
Principal
Nick Karoglou, Founder & Principal, brings nearly 20 years in corporate communications, PR, and corporate affairs across regulated and high-scrutiny industries, guiding leadership teams and boards through transactions, transitions, crises, and growth. His work spans regulatory and legal challenges, global policy engagement, and periods of intense public and stakeholder pressure in defense, energy, tobacco, life sciences, finance, and artificial intelligence. In 2025, he was named a Leader of the Year at Ragan Communications' inaugural Zenith Awards.