Teresa Henderson is a Managing Director for TrailRunner International based in Texas, drawing on more than 35 years’ experience as a communications strategist. Teresa specializes in creating platforms and initiatives to address complex issues and deliver business results. For much of her career, she has focused on reputation management in the natural resources and industrial space. Her clients have included leading organizations in the E&P, energy technology and services, renewable power, chemical, natural gas, pipeline and terminal, and commercial shipping port sub-sectors. She has also worked extensively in CPG manufacturing, providing change management communications and issues and crisis management.

Teresa routinely advises on strategic brand awareness, sustainability programs and goals, social justice, executive thought leadership, board governance, and other critical matters that move and impact stakeholders. She has managed numerous high-stakes situations including hazardous material accidents, workplace incidents resulting in loss of life, youth protection matters and sexual misconduct allegations, product recalls, foodborne illnesses, communications for Presidential cabinet appointments, C-suite transitions and other sensitive leadership issues, NGO activism, plant and location closures, and right of way/permitting.

Before joining TrailRunner, Teresa was Vice Chair, Client Strategy at BCW (formerly Burson-Marsteller). Her prior roles at BCW include Southwest Market Leader and Managing Director in the Corporate and Financial Practice, where she led the Dallas market and team, President of the Midwest/Southeast Region and Chief Operating Officer for North America.

Previously, Teresa held senior leadership position at Edelman, Ketchum, and Pierpont Communications, overseeing client campaigns and regional growth at all three firms.

Teresa began her career as a copywriter at Runner’s World magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University and is a frequent speaker on the art and science of communications. A lifelong Texan and avid traveler, Teresa and her husband live on the South Texas Coast.