Senior Strategic Consultant

I’m a U.S.-based strategic communications executive focused on a wide range of local-to-global management, public relations, strategy, advocacy, and environmental planning efforts. I have worked everywhere from the remote Alaskan bush to the halls of international decision makers in Brussels. Clients have included NATO HQ, NATO SACT, NATO NSPA, USAID, IRI, BHP, Keter International, Aurubis, BNSF Railway, AECOM, UN Women, USDA and countless start-ups, private corporations, and communities.

Management & Public Relations

Oversee complex multinational communications, strategy, research, and creative projects with a diversity of challenges, timelines, budgets, and win parameters.

  • Organizational gap analyses

  • Market & target audience research

  • Stakeholder mapping & interviews

  • Planning workshops

  • Outcome-oriented strategic plans & roadmaps

  • Messaging, pitches, media kits, & creative development

  • Media engagement – traditional / social / digital

  • Implementation & ROI- / KPI-focused refinement

  • Long-term media relations

Strategy

Serve as a strategic advisor on renewable energy development projects, large-scale mining mitigation efforts with complex legacy issues, and multinational communications initiatives.

  • Goal & objective setting

  • Constraints & opportunities analyses

  • Cross-team collaboration – legal, planning, research, finance, etc.

  • Resource & community analyses

  • Strategic, tactical, & practical roadmapping

  • Message & narrative development

  • Third-party recruitment & engagement

  • Public relations & media management

Advocacy

Position clients to overcome regulatory hurdles, key perception issues, legal challenges, branding and messaging concerns, venture capital pitches, crises, disinfo/misinfo, and restructuring pains.

  • 360-degree issue analysis

  • Social, economic, political & special interest evaluation

  • Tiered audience analyses

  • Value, messaging, & narrative development

  • Design & visual content development

  • Marketing decks, targeted releases, & traditional / social media plans

  • Recruitment and influencer deployment

  • Media pitches, op-eds, Q&As, story placements

  • Direct / indirect stakeholder engagement

Environmental Planning

Develop approaches to help industry, regulatory agencies, and communities recognize and advance their common goals with a focus on the environment, place, and culture.

  • Defined obstacles / opportunities

  • Audience & stakeholder analysis

  • Resource identification

  • Issue mapping

  • Strategic partnership development

  • Internal / external team engagement

  • Indigenous & traditional community outreach

  • Outcome-oriented planning

  • Charrettes

  • Agency, political, NGO, & decision-maker consultation

  • Final planning & implementation

BIG PICTURE

I work with exceptional leaders and project teams to connect with diverse publics, key influencers, stakeholders, industry, governments, decision makers, and the media through culturally relevant techniques, leveraged trends, creative assets, targeted messaging, and key influencers to drive desired actions and outcomes.