About SHIGAN

A firm of experts in crisis communications, influence communications and social strategy, based in Paris and working internationally.

Founded in 2013, SHIGAN is a firm of experts dedicated to preventing and managing sensitive contexts and communication crises: crisis communications, social strategy and employee relations, influence communications, prevention of radicalisation.

The founder of an open business model group of companies, SHIGAN delivers a high level of expertise by assembling the profiles of its network of qualified experts. We combine strategic advice and operational experience to deliver action-oriented results, from the construction of operational solutions to strategic recommendations.

Social crisis, restructuring, difficult negotiation, media exposure, transformation, controversy or a complex institutional environment: SHIGAN supports executive teams when decisions become difficult and power relationships come under strain.

The firm's experts provide an informed, sharp and forward-looking analysis of social and political intelligence. SHIGAN organises dialogue and asserts the voice and image of its clients in the spheres of influence that matter: business circles, decision-makers, government institutions, opinion-makers and the media.

On the international stage, SHIGAN supports its clients in France, in Europe and in their own countries.

2013: Founded
4: Areas of expertise
2: Offices
2: Working languages

What sets the firm apart

Read the actors before communicating

We start with who decides, who blocks and who can open the way.

Work on sensitive situations

Crisis, social issues, secularism, public affairs: matters where every word is weighed.

Rooted in Paris and internationally

A French base and local relays in the regions where we work.

Our story

SHIGAN was founded in 2013, after initial international engagements from 2012. The firm was built around a simple discipline: understand the actors before communicating, decide before acting, verify before publishing.

2012: first international engagements
2013: SHIGAN founded in Paris
2014: extension to secularism, religion and radicalisation
Today: four areas of expertise, two working languages and a partner network in Europe, Africa and the Caucasus

This continuity is our guarantee: it has taught us to work in environments where words commit, where many actors are involved and where mistakes are costly. Every engagement applies this method, with an identified contact and explicit decisions.

Our mindset

We advise and we support. We organise dialogue between our clients and the people who count for them, and we build our clients' voice and image with discretion and precision.

Our method

Every engagement follows the same discipline: understand before advising, decide before communicating, verify before publishing.

Understand the actors. We map stakeholders, their positions, constraints and the turning points of the file.
Clarify the decision. We define the objective, the room for manoeuvre and the sequence of the response with you.
Prepare messages and relays. We build the arguments, messages and dialogue with the people who count.
Support delivery. We stay alongside executives and teams, then draw the lessons from the engagement.

Each area of expertise has its own method: crisis communications and influence communications.

Our commitments

The firm works under confidentiality and ethics obligations. Facts, client names and references are published only after written validation. The terms of each engagement, including any applicable declaration obligations, are agreed with the client before work starts.