Consulting Services
Base Areas of Expertise and Services Offered:
- Working with Senior Management and Principals of Organizations
in the Personalized Development of Governmental Affairs Strategies - then helping
them to enact those strategies via direct contract lobbying activities with governmental
entities at all levels local, state, federal, international.
- Conceiving, Developing and Launching Grassroots Strategies
to Expand an Organization’s Presence into Non-Traditional Areas of Support such
as underserved communities, minority leadership, environmental movements, non-profit
organizations, local-government entities, at-risk populations, foreign trade.
- Crisis Resolution for Organizations with Product or
Image Issues related to catastrophic events or changing political/market dynamics.
- Economic Development Consulting on retainer for Smaller
Communities that do not have economic development staff or offices. Services include
developing a strategic plan for a community that encompasses expanding local businesses
and the recruitment of new industry and retail enterprise.
- Site-selection and community evaluation on Behalf of
Small Companies and Large Companies within Alabama and in Neighboring Regional States
with state officials, community leaders, corporate and local governmental entities
tied to the introduction of new technologies, business site locations, product/service
expansion, and bi-lateral trade opportunities.
- Confidential Research and Community Intelligence Reports
provided to specific clients related to predicting grassroots political reaction
or possible public relation outcomes of a client’s entry into a market or community.
- Outreach to Faith-Based Communities (especially Evangelical)
on Behalf of Clients for the purpose of repair of public divisions, building of
strategic alliances and garnering a collective reaction to a client’s current or
proposed activities.
- Keynote Speaking, Conducting Leadership Training, and
helping organizations build a higher level of employee interest in the activities
of participating in governmental activities and leadership activities with an emphasis
on elected official contact, PAC participation and faith based principles for leading
others.
- Conducting International Assessments of cultural/political
impacts of an organization’s activities and doing site assessments and feasibility
studies to predict outcomes.
- Development and Launching of Political Campaigns, Initiative
and Referendum.
- Supervising Political Action Committee (PAC) Development
from origination to building donors of existing PAC’s and developing a PAC strategy,
board, and legal compliance.
- Critical Review and Recommendation of other Consultants,
Lobbyists, Pollsters as a one-time service on behalf of a client and also helping
to confidentially monitor their activities over time for economy and effectiveness.
- Lay Interpretation of Complex Business Models and New
Product Technology for corporate clients in order to effectively reach key political
decision-makers.
A Sampling of Previous and Current Experience:
- Lobbying and Governmental Services Consultant for a
billion dollar bio-technology pharmaceutical company in Alabama and nationally.
- Successfully helped launch two corporate Political Action
Committees (PACS) for two multi-billion dollar companies.
- Consulting and Lobbying with a consortium of experts
on behalf of a Fortune 500 Energy Company in various states and Washington, DC.
- Development and Strategic Consultant for a film distribution
company and humanitarian organizations based in Europe and Africa.
- An Economic Development Consultant to a local community
and successfully helped to recruit an auto manufacturing industry to their community.
- Consultant to a multi-faceted public relations LLC that
engages in the formation of public policy recommendations for state governments
and political associations.
- Developed Eco-Tourism feasibility models and marketing
materials for West-Africa on behalf of a national environmental non-profit.
- Provided research and documented reports involving changing
environmental regulations to a consulting entity for his Fortune 500 clients.
- Assisted three international humanitarian and religious
organizations in their building of an U.S. based development and networking system
for support of activities worldwide.
- Traveled on behalf of clients and organizations to over
a dozen countries on 4 continents meeting with national leaders and local community
citizens.
- Successfully consulted and managed political campaigns
on behalf of numerous clients at all levels of politics for over 25 years.
- Consulted with business developers on the feasibility
of site locations and local grassroots reaction/support for their proposed facilities.
- Consulted with large membership based organizations
on membership development, public policy formation, political affairs strategy.
- Part of a team that represents numerous U.S. hospitals
in the appropriations process and with health care reform policies.