A communications strategist with over 25 years experience in media, marketing and management consulting, our founder, Ann Szalkowski, specializes in multi-pronged campaigns that drive profits, build coalitions, and serve communities. 

Ann’s skills span traditional and new media production, solutions architecture, public relations, and messaging strategy. Over the years she has spearheaded product and new business launches, national public health campaigns, and special events with Cosby survivors, indigenous tribal nations, Grammy-award-winning musicians, and Academy award-winning filmmakers.

Recent successes include:

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• Coordinating strategic partnerships, celebrity relations, and press to open 50+ NBA/NFL/NHL/MLB arenas and cultural venues as COVID19-ready voting centers

• Helping a small, family-owned manufacturer survive the pandemic by building a multi-state sales pipeline and pivoting operations from military to medical supplies within weeks.

• Producing a viral video storytelling campaign targeting rural residents in collaboration with the production team behind the Avengers film franchise

• Designing Times Square billboards that garnered millions of dollars in earned media and coverage on every major news network

• Rehauling messaging of a nonprofit to revitalize donor relations and earn an invite to the White House

• Building social media and HIPPA-compliant CRM programs for a highly regulated retail medical company to support over $21M in average monthly sales

• Providing external communications for a presidential campaign

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​Ann’s work has produced millions of views via social platforms and earned media. Her clients have been featured on CNN, Vanity Fair, MSNBC, ABC, The New York Times, Fox News, The Hill, Politico, The BBC, PBS, Newsweek, Washington Post, NPR, Axios and more.

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