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Communication Consulting
Communication Consulting That Moves Ideas Forward
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Communication Consulting Built for the Moments That Matter Most
Some communication moments carry more weight than others. The earnings call. The board presentation. The keynote that sets the tone for the year. The town hall that has to steady a company through change. These are the moments that shape how you are seen and what people do next.
Our communication consulting practice exists for exactly these moments. When the stakes are too high to leave to a rushed draft and a quick run through, we step in as your partner. We help you decide what to say, shape how you say it, and prepare you for the room you are walking into.
For more than 30 years, we have sat beside leaders at Fortune 500 companies as they prepared for the presentations that mattered most.
Here's where we help most.
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FROM FIRST OUTLINE TO FINAL DELIVERY
Conference Theme & Message Design
Event formats are demanding. Multiple speakers, multiple messages, and a stream of sound bites don’t always add up to a single theme. We help you connect the storyline threads so listeners leave with clear takeaways and compelling direction. It starts with your conference objectives and drills down to each individual speaker, setting the key messages and giving every speaker the support they need to build a strong storyline and deliver it with conviction. We shape the content, coach the presenters to own it and deliver it with conviction, and settle into a big stage or an intimate setting.
Storyline Development
When communication grows beyond a single presenter to multiple communicators within a company, we help leaders and teams transfer consistency. We build the communicator’s guide to include a robust outline, a talk track, a visual deck, and best practices for personalizing it. From the sales pitch to the marketing initiative to the product rollout, we guide the full process, from building the elements to training the team and coaching individuals to make the story their own.
Communication Plans
Leaders have to repeat their messages to make an impact on groups, yet executive communications are often built one presentation at a time. Consistency and visibility never get leveraged the way they could be. We set direction for an executive communication plan and create the storyline and message that helps each leader establish thought leadership, validate vision and strategy, and build momentum from concepts worth repeating.
Facilitated Strategy & Planning Sessions
We often bring our content development process to teams working through a multiyear strategic plan. We take on the facilitation role to gather the inputs and insights that shape the big ideas, then use our tools to draft the plan and prioritize the work. Finally, we introduce new and creative ways to communicate that plan across the organization.
M&A Support & Pitch Presentations
When a company reaches a milestone and wants capital to finance growth and expansion, the ability to tell the company story becomes critical. It sounds easy, since your leaders have been telling that story for years. Many of them founded the business, and their personal story is woven into the company’s beginnings.
But it isn’t easy, because investors are looking for a different part of the story. They care less about where the company has been and more about where it could go. Most companies tell their story from the inside out, leading with their products and services and then their place in the market. We shift the investor story to lead from the outside in, taking investors from marketplace trends and opportunities to the company’s ability to seize them.
When Consulting Makes Sense
Training builds communication skills your team can use for years. Consulting helps solve the communication challenge in front of you right now. Many clients need both. We will help you determine which approach best fits the moment, the audience and the outcome you need.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We partner with a leader on a specific, high-stakes communication moment and build it with you. That can mean shaping the message, developing the presentation, refining the delivery, and preparing you for the room. It is focused, hands on work aimed at one important event rather than general skill building.
Our training and coaching build lasting skills you carry into every future moment. Consulting builds the communication itself for one specific event. Many leaders use both, drawing on our programs to grow over time and on our consulting when a defining moment is on the calendar.
Earnings calls, investor days, board and leadership presentations, keynotes, town halls, product and strategy launches, and change or crisis communication, among others. If a moment is important enough that you cannot afford to get it wrong, it is the kind of moment we prepare you for.
Both, depending on what you need. Some leaders want us to shape a storyline they will carry forward themselves. Others want a full partner through the message, the script, the visuals, and the rehearsal. We take on as much or as little as the moment requires.
It begins with understanding your goal, your audience, and the moment you are preparing for. From there we shape the content, prepare the delivery, and tailor both to the room, following the three dimensions at the center of our work: content, style, and situation. We stay with you through rehearsal and, when it helps, into the moment itself.
Both. We consult with leaders and teams in-person and virtually, and we prepare you for whichever setting your moment calls for, including presentations delivered on camera.
Yes. We often work with leadership and communications teams to align a single, well built message and prepare each person to deliver their part of it with confidence.
Yes. We work with senior leaders on sensitive, high-stakes material every day, and we treat your content and your plans with complete discretion.
For more than 30 years we have prepared leaders at Fortune 500 companies for their most important moments. We bring that experience, and a proven methodology built on content, style, and situation, to every engagement.
The best place to begin is a conversation about the moment you are preparing for. From there we will recommend the right level of support and how to make the most of the time you have.
