About Us
A New Playbook for a New Era.
The traditional playbook is no longer enough. At Elevate Strategies, we create high-performing marketing, communications, and public affairs strategies built for modern channels and audiences.
We provide expert counsel, crafting solutions that align your messages, content, tools, and channels with how audiences engage today, elevating your reputation and driving measurable growth.
Our approach leverages modern capabilities like sophisticated message testing, creative storytelling, AI-driven discovery, online community engagement, new media, and advanced analytics.
From navigating the AI era to turning disruption into market leadership, our team has advised the world’s largest companies, fastest-growing disruptors, and critical mission-driven institutions— helping them achieve business goals and become the most trusted voices in their space.
Common Questions from Our Clients
We need assistance crafting a marketing or communications plan. Where do we start?
We start by removing the guesswork with our Insights-to-Impact Framework, an end-to-end system that aligns targeting, strategy, and execution. Depending on your needs, we guide you through up to five phases: data-driven research, brand positioning, channel strategy, activation, and continuous tracking and optimization to help you achieve your organizational goals.
AI is changing how brands are discovered. How do we stay visible and credible?
Our Marketing Modernization Audit assesses how your brand appears across AI-powered search, how you compare with competitors, whether your content supports AI discovery, and where gaps in visibility or reputation may be costing you opportunities.
We weave Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) directly into your broader marketing and communications strategies, so that AI engines accurately reflect your narrative and actively recommend you to high-intent buyers.
We are drowning in disconnected tools, channels, and vendors. What do we do?
Disconnected marketing and communications programs waste budget and erode trust. We audit your existing channels, tools, and vendors to help you unify, modernize, and streamline. We guide you through elevating your marketing strategy so it aligns with how audiences, channels, platforms, and AI operate today, turning complexity into a high-performing growth engine.
We have a lot of data and reports. How can we better leverage them?
In a continuously shifting business landscape, clarity is key. We cut through the analytics clutter to deliver comprehensive executive briefs that bring all your data, analytics, and reporting together. They don't just report on the past—they provide clear, data-driven recommendations to improve performance, reallocate budget, and fuel your next phase of growth.
We are navigating a complex regulatory shift or public affairs challenge. How can you help?
Advocacy requires a specialized approach. Leveraging decades of experience at the highest levels of government and national campaigns, we identify the right messages, channels, and voices to shape public opinion, maneuver through political landscapes, and protect your brand equity.
Review our case studies to see how we turn complex business goals into undeniable market impact.
Meet Your Senior Strategists
Kim
Partner
Kim brings over 20 years of experience shaping business transformation, strategic growth, and high-performance marketing, communication, and public affairs strategy. As the founder and former CEO of Digital Brinq, she pioneered data-driven, digital-first marketing infrastructure for global organizations—including IBM, McKesson, HON Furniture, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Under her leadership, the agency utilized early data-centric frameworks to consistently achieve engagement rates double or triple the industry standard.
Erin
Partner
Erin brings a strategic, results-oriented approach to communications and public relations. Her experience includes leading communications at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to advising health tech and biopharmaceutical companies on complex communications challenges.
She also served at the high levels of government as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services during the Obama administration, where she assisted with the launch of the Affordable Care Act.
Stephen
Creative
Stephen, a Pratt Institute graduate with over 15 years of experience in art direction and graphic design, has worked with top brands like Revlon, Disney, and Mattel, specializing in strategic, impactful creative projects spanning marketing, entertainment, branding, and UX design.
Stephen leads organizations in developing brands and content that break through the cluttered marketing landscape.
Mark
Research & Communications
Mark possesses an unparalleled understanding of human behavior and the power of authentic connection. As the former co-founder of Propper Daley, a leading social impact agency, and Communications Director of Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign, Mark excels at guiding organizations in developing creative engagement strategies.
His work has been featured on NPR and The View, and has earned A Cynopsis Social Good Award and the UN Humanitarian Award.
Kate
Promotions & Advertising
Kate is a seasoned writer and producer with over a decade of experience in content and advertising strategy. She has worked with a diverse range of organizations, including PBS, Film Garden, ABC, and non-profit organizations like the LGBTQIA Center LA, Fostering Home and Resource Parents.
Kate excels at analyzing audience data and optimizing advertising campaigns to achieve client objectives.
Dr. Gina
Research & Data Analysis
Utilizing data and statistical analysis, Gina brings clarity to target audience thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Her work has been published in numerous journals including the Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
She guides clients in developing data collection and research methods, and provides thoughtful analysis that help brands create strong bonds with target audiences. Gina earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Denver.
Claudia
Multicultural Marketing
Claudia brings extensive experience in multicultural marketing and communications including serving as Global Head of Integrated Marketing, Entertainment at Amazon.
Her expertise lies in deeply understanding audience behavior to develop integrated marketing solutions that generate engagement across platforms. By combining industry insight with digital innovation, she creates compelling strategies that drive results.
Jill
Content, Social & Community
Jill is an earned social media strategist focused on creating content people actually find, watch, comment on, click, and save. Her work has generated millions of organic views and secured top placements in Google search results. She specializes in turning everyday topics into high-performing content by combining search-driven strategy with clear, engaging storytelling.
Her experience spans both personal and brand accounts across TikTok, YouTube, Meta, and more, where she helps increase visibility, engagement, and meaningful audience growth.
Craig
Market Intelligence
With over 15 years in market intelligence and research strategy, Craig is known for turning complex datasets into decisive business action. He has guided startups and Fortune 500 organizations alike in identifying emerging market opportunities, refining competitive positioning, and building brands that stand out in saturated environments.
A founder who has scaled his own ventures, Craig brings an operator’s mindset to research — connecting insight directly to execution and growth outcomes.
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