Welcome to Bright Hat

There are word people and there are data people. And there are a very few who excel at both. These are the ones who make up the team at Bright Hat Communications.

Bright Hat is heir to Max Christian Hansen’s history as an expert in data warehousing, data quality, and the analysis of technology business strategy. While our experts are happy to take on any sort of communications challenge our clients choose to throw at us, we especially love to help people and organizations solve the problems that play to our particular strengths.

And what are those strengths?

1. Process management: Two members of the Bright Hat team worked on the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, where they faced and surmounted process challenges that would have daunted others. Our team chose and implemented a new groupware solution after software chosen earlier had proved inadequate. We also shepherded diverse and distributed teams of authors in the preparation of documents under tight time constraints.

2. Data analysis and data quality: Max Christian Hansen has lectured on data quality at MIT, and was chosen to take on primary management of the American Society for Quality's annual salary survey after personnel changes caused ASQ to outsource the project after many years in-house.

3. Timely timelessness: While social media have brought about a revolution in communications, these new tools haven't changed the need for classic skills: writing, editing, graphic design, and document production. The Bright Hat team includes professionals who had mastered written and oral communications long before social media (or—we'll admit it—even the Internet itself) had been heard of. But even these "living classics," as well as our team members of more recent vintage, are active and capable in the new media.

4. Strategic vision:  Max Christian Hansen has long believed in and practiced the need for every communications act, down to the writing of a single sentence, to be tied to an organization's main goals and mission. From small classrooms to the Harvard Business Review, Hansen's work has consistently demonstrated the power of this vision.

Please look around the site. If you see anything suggesting Bright Hat can help you solve a communications challenge, send an email or give us a call. We’ll be delighted to hear from you.