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POLITICAL CONSULTING
“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies ! “
"What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
False beliefs can be useful in a social sense even if they are not useful in a factual sense.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
False beliefs can be useful in a social sense even if they are not useful in a factual sense. For lack of a better phrase, we might call this approach “factually false, but socially accurate.” When we have to choose between the two, people often select friends and family over facts.
We believe an idea, created, communicated, and shared, can change the world.
We help clients to make confident, informed political risk management decisions. Our guidance fuses analysis across the spectrum of insurable and uninsurable political risks with forecasts and intelligence from the highest quality sources.
The expertise and professionalism of our political risk analysts are perfectly complemented by the quality of information typical of our global risk management services. The global reach and knowledge of our specialist teams ensure that our global political risk consultancy provides the answers that clients need to secure the integrity and security of their investments. Our rigor and understanding of complex political conditions underpin our reputation as one of the world’s leading political risk consulting firms.
We are an award-winning integrated policy, communications and political consultancy which believe in the power of words and ideas. We provide political advice, policy, campaigning and communications support to visionary leaders, political figures, businesses and charities operating in both established and emerging global markets. We offer creative solutions to challenges that help influential leaders and organizations transform lives worldwide.
We offer creative solutions to challenges that help influential leaders and organizations transform lives worldwide.
We provide political advice, policy, campaigning and communications support to visionary leaders, political figures, businesses and charities operating in both established and emerging global markets.
Progressive... We work towards a modern, ethical, democratic, equal and socially just future for all.
Innovative... We provide creative, innovative and cutting-edge solutions to your challenges
Courageous... We are audacious and bold enough to journey the road untraveled. We are not afraid of challenges, or difficulties, and in these we see only opportunity.
Empowering... We believe in partnering with others, building the capacity to deliver change.
Passionate... We are energetic, with a can-do mentality and a passion for change.
We are the independent, international media buying experts to top global brands and in-house media teams. Our work creates equilibrium between price and value in a changing global media marketplace.
We help governments and leaders shape the future, reaching and engaging the audiences that matter.
The new reality is one of uncertainty, rapidly advancing technology, and increasingly mistrustful populations. In a global race for influence, investment, trade, and tourism, making yourself heard and understood has never been more important, or more difficult.
Our practice helps governments and leaders to build, profile and protect reputations. We use insights, data, and creative thinking to power smart communications that reach the right audience with the right message in the right place to achieve maximum impact.
We are passionate about helping deliver real change, and our team brings experience at the highest levels of government.
We understand the value of attraction and persuasion. From measuring soft power, to developing and delivering international positioning and branding campaigns, we help nations, states and cities improve and manage their reputation.
We have an extensive experience in designing, building, and helping operate high-performing communications teams. We bring real-world experience from the heart of government, to ensure change is realistic, practical and supported by staff across government.
We work with countries and key institutions to help define the qualities that make them an attractive investment destination and translate these into compelling messages and content. Through global media and digital campaigns and multi-country events, we help capture investor attention and generate wealth.
With experience from the UN Security Council to local and national elections, we have unparalleled success in running and winning campaigns. We work with clients to identify priority audiences, develop insight-led strategy and messages, and implement integrated campaigns across media, digital and ground-game.
Clients who partner with us benefit from our:
Expert team – Our specialists understand ground level political drivers as acutely as the wider geopolitical risks that influence them.
Methodology – We combine qualitative and quantitative approaches with empirical data gathered from expert human sources and open-source research, to model our clients’ specific risks.
Approach – From market entry studies to highly specific assessments of projects and investments, we work directly with stakeholders and clients to establish a deep and immersive understanding of their businesses.
Key features of our political risk service include:
Political risk analysis and assessments
Political risk consulting
Political risk monitoring
Country risk mapping
Forecasting government action and decisions
Identifying and implementing responses to legislation and government action
Exploring government strategy
Our research team, backed by internationally renowned expertise, produces research papers and reports for a wide variety of customers. We have a long-standing collaboration with the public sector.
Consulting studies are carried out at the request of national and international institutions. They provide help to decision making for public authorities in a wide variety of areas (security issues, regional issues, sporting regulations) and recommendations for the future. Consulting work can be produced by us, alone or in collaboration with other, foreign think tanks based in Europe and worldwide.
Several times a year, we organize high-level meetings that bring together political and economic leaders and international experts, at its own initiative or at the request of public institutions. These meetings held in Europe or abroad are designed to foster dialogue among decision-makers and compare their viewpoints in an informal discussion setting.
Regular gatherings and ad hoc meetings can be organized on request.
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, there is growing pressure on think tanks to join international research networks. We have a wide variety of international collaborative partnerships with other think tanks, which enable it to share analyses, undertake joint research and receive invaluable help with understanding foreign political and diplomatic trends.
To help businesses make sense of complex environments and more effectively expand their international footprint, we offer expertise tailored to businesses’ short, medium and long-term strategies.
We offer a range of services that cater to businesses’ needs. This might involve producing analysis notes, organizing forums or seminars gathering high-level economic and political decision-makers, or vocational training sessions for high-potential employees or company officers in large multinationals. We take great care over the quality of our analyses, which are aimed at meeting our customers’ operational requirements.
This expertise can also be provided in the form of training or preparation seminars for companies’ senior managers, prior to an expatriate assignment.
The services designed for the private sector.
We can deliver its analysis in a range of formats:
Consulting notes (a concise format available on very short notice to provide insight into a one-off decision)
Strategic studies (in-depth, multi-sector analysis of a geostrategic issue with a view to medium to long-term international development)
Our experts produce operational analyses on topics such as geostrategic issues; identification of the key stakeholders and influence networks; economic, social and political outlook and risks; the regulatory environment; and diplomatic strategies. They are powerful decision Tools.
We adapt systematically to our customer’s specific request and advise it on the factors to take into account in its international decision making.
We offer advisory services and solutions to meet major challenges of competitiveness, transformation and regulation. Despite the risks they carry, these challenges offer great opportunities for expansion.
Our ambition in the context of regulatory, technological and corporate/social changes is to offer a comprehensive solution, enabling our clients to fulfill their obligations and implement the transformations they need.
Our value proposal is a combination of top-level expertise and proven methodologies. We have the necessary knowledge and experience to guarantee that we will adopt the best practices in the industry.
Guided by requirement, rigour and benevolence, we harness these human values to help our clients develop their activities, in an environment where long-term performance is a key issue. This reality is our daily inspiration.
We have a unique and agile ecosystem that reveals the strengths and talents of our employees and develops them by prompting individual initiatives and collective innovation. Governance, communication, R&D, in-house centers of expertise and training are its key components.
The advisory services and other services we offer are mainly focused on strategy definition, risk handling and transformation.
We specialize in political strategy and communication, polling, campaign management, candidate development, media strategy and advertising, digital and social media strategy. Our Political Consulting’s election experts and international political consultants work with candidates, elected officials, campaigns and political parties in Europe and throughout the world.
Our approach – A winning candidate must project the right political image, boost a clear, effective and well articulated message, and adopt a campaign strategy reflecting unambiguous goals. Our comprehensive approach to political consulting includes campaign and communication strategy, message development, political technology, traditional and new media strategy, and candidate development.
Our reach – We offer political consulting services to candidates, parties and campaigns internationally. Whether our global political consulting work takes us to Europe, Latin America, Asia, or Africa, you can count on our political consultants to deliver the quality of political advising you expect in a professional, confidential and timely manner.
Our services – In delivering results, we rely on in-country knowledge of the system’s electoral laws, election regulations, and political and cultural norms and traditions.
Our campaign consulting services offered include the following, among others:
Political Technology: Gain the competitive edge by taking advantage of our latest political technology tools and methods to deliver your message to the voters that matter.
Polling: Rely on scientific tools and knowledge to assess your electorate and help craft your campaign strategy. We design and implement political polls and surveys to meet your specific political and campaign goals.
Political Party Building: Improve your party’s organizational structures and internal processes and procedures. Our political campaign experts work closely with party committees to create election campaign strategies supporting candidates and/or issues.
Candidate Development: We assess a candidate’s strength and weaknesses and work to eliminate weaknesses while enhancing his or her strengths. We coach candidates on their approach to voters’ interaction and engagement, media interviewing and debating.
Political Image Consulting: Project the right political image as a candidate or elected official. We make leaders look like leaders. We ensure you project the confidence voters look for in their leader by enhancing your political image and appeal.
Media: As media consultants, we create and manage traditional and digital media campaigns, including traditional television channel and internet media. We advise on negative information handling and political crisis management.
Modern political communication is crucial in achieving complex and demanding government policy goals or pursuing a political party’s objectives. Political leaders and communications teams must always rely on clear strategy, effective tools, and advanced know-how in meeting their goals.
We offer expertise and proven capabilities, field-tested over nearly two decades of political work in Europe and many countries around the world. Our team of experts can assist your government administration or organization with all aspects of political communication – from strategy design and implementation to team and organizational development, and from short-term support to long-term advisory services.
We work closely with our clients to determine the depth and breadth of the services needed. These may include:
Organizational Development: The backbone of an effective communications operation is the organization and structure of the communications team. These include the Office of the Communications Director, Press Secretary, and Liaison Offices such as media relations and community outreach. Our experts will assist with putting in place the right organization in order to meet your communication goals.
Staff Development: From senior communications officers to support staff, the right team, skills and know-how are essential in ensuring a smooth, effective and efficient communications operation. We assist with staff Selection and Identification, Skills Development and Training.
Processes and Procedures: Rapid response requirements, ever-changing communication tools, and complex planning are challenges our experts will help you meet through the delivery of services such as Strategic Integration and Planning, Technologies, and Crisis Communication Management.
Advisory and Strategy Services: Our work does not stop with the initial engagement. We can provide long-term support and advice with Strategy Design and Implementation, Communication Planning, Team Development, and Ongoing Assessment Services.
A successful communication strategy helps drive your agenda forward. Developing the right organization, team and processes to support strategy design, development and implementation is crucial in today’s fast-paced, complex media environment and demanding public opinion.
Worldwide, we offer non-partisan campaign consulting know-how to candidates, campaigns and political parties. We have worked on every continent.
Our services cover the full spectrum of political campaign management consulting and election campaign strategy development. We offer the following:
Political polls and surveys – design, implementation and analysis
Perform issue research/opposition research
Research-driven, polling-based message development
Develop/create/manage media strategy and campaigns, from traditional media to digital media.
Advise on budgeting and fundraising strategies
Develop Get-Out-The-Vote and absentee-balloting strategy
Write/edit news releases, talking points, speeches
Advise on negative information handling
Political crisis management
Analyze district/precinct-level voting histories and develop voter contact strategies.
Political Polling
We can design and conducts political polls and surveys to assess voters’ attitudes toward political issues and candidates. Our poll specialists provide accurate and cost-effective public policy and political polling for candidates, campaigns and government institutions.
As media consultants, we create advertisements and buy airtime from stations and networks. We create and manage TV, radio, print and digital media campaigns.
Candidate Development
We assess candidates’ strengths and weaknesses and work to reduce/eliminate weaknesses while enhancing their strengths. We coach candidates on public speaking and voter engagement.
Political Image Consulting
We coach candidates on how to project the confidence voters look for in their leaders. We work one-on-one to enhance their political image and appeal.
Voter Contact Strategies and Services
Direct voter mail: Through our creative and effective messages, voters will read and understand your mail. Our political consultants will assess your political mail strategy and determine the right voters to contact — those who will make the difference between winning and losing — and will deliver a sharp message that will influence the way they vote. We offer the following:
Political mail strategy
Message development/content development
Voter contact data (targeted voter lists)
Digital media strategy and implementation
Graphic design services
Direct voter mail production and printing.
Policy Training
We ensure our candidates have a full grasp and understanding of policy issues and their relevance to both the policy-making process and the voters.
We coach candidates and help them prepare for media interviews, debates, voter forums and meetings.
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