About Us

Facing marketing and communications challenges?
We solve them.
Elevate Strategies is a team of experienced problem-solvers with a unique, cross-industry perspective to tackle your most complex marketing and communication challenges.
As your strategic partner, we create agile, integrated strategies that harness advanced technology and data-driven insights to exceed your goals and drive lasting success.

Here's how we can help you reach new heights:
Need assistance crafting a marketing or communications plan?
Research and Insights: We conduct in-depth research, including surveys, focus groups, market assessments, and more, to identify and understand your target audience and how they perceive and engage with your brand. This empowers us to craft messaging and strategies that resonate and build meaningful connections.
Map Your Marketing & Communications Journey: Our senior strategists work closely with you to understand your organizational goals and develop a comprehensive strategy that unifies your marketing, communications and engagement efforts. Our team of experts excels at building custom public relations, lead generation, demand generation, and go-to-market strategies for maximum engagement from your target audience.
Need to define and build your brand in a crowded marketplace?
Brand Building and Thought Leadership: Research shows more than half of consumers change their buying habits based on the company’s reputation and the actions of its leaders. We develop relationships with C-suite leaders to identify their unique insights and values to build credibility for your brand through consistent thought leadership and marketing strategies.
Reputation and Issues Management: We prepare and plan for potential issues and crises with a landscape and risk analysis, clear messaging, media training, and a proactive approach that ensures a timely, transparent, and consistent communication with stakeholders.
Navigate, Not Avoid, Politics: We have over twenty years of experience maneuvering a changing political landscape for our clients. Our work leading elected officials, political campaigns, and special interests in achieving goals and winning elections uniquely shape this terrain. We help you build agile, adaptable, and authentic communications strategies that meet the political moment.
Need help implementing your plan or achieving a big goal or launch?
Unlock Growth Potential: Whether you're launching a new product, generating users, leads, sales, or entering a new market, we'll craft a targeted, measurable strategy to achieve your goals.
Increase Your Bandwidth: We pride ourselves on having built and nurtured a team of experts in top marketing and communication skill sets, including branding, public relations, storytelling, digital and traditional advertising, and more. We'll be your trusted partner, providing the additional resources you need to succeed.
Multimedia First: A recent survey found 66% of people get their news in video format. We take a “multimedia first” approach with creative, impactful messaging to break through the fractured and crowded media environment.
Compelling Creative That Converts: Our team of talented videographers and designers leverages the science of design psychology and stays on top of the latest data and trends to craft engaging, high-performing content that resonates with your audience and drives conversions.
Don’t understand your performance and analytics, or whether you're hitting industry benchmarks?
Measure What Matters: Data is king, and we use advanced analytics and machine learning to track and optimize your performance so that we can demonstrate the ROI of your marketing and communications efforts.
Benchmark and Exceed: We help you identify key industry benchmarks to see how you compare with your competitors and develop strategies to surpass them.
Don’t know the technology tools available or how to best select and implement them?
Harness the Power of Tech: From automation tools to performance platforms and AI, we’ll help you leverage technology to increase efficiency and maximize your return on investment.
Need a seasoned general consultant for your campaign or issue initiative?
A Winning Strategy: We excel at developing deep voter connections that propel campaigns and causes to the forefront. Whether you're a candidate on the rise or a champion for a critical issue, our team's expertise helps turn little-known voices into powerful movements.
At Elevate Strategies we create future-proof strategies that build meaningful brand connections that fuel your growth and increase your ROI. Let's work together to elevate your brand and watch your results take off.
The Team

Kim
Partner
Kim brings 20 years of experience in research, marketing and political strategy to the agency. As former founder and CEO of Digital Brinq, a leading digital marketing firm, Kim led marketing strategies for Fortune 500s like IBM and McKesson and spearheaded campaigns for political figures and organizations at all levels, including Governors, Senators, and high profile non-profits.

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
Content & 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
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.