Strategic Communications
Strategy First. Always.
Through rigorous audience analysis and mission-focused planning, we help clients reach, persuade, and motivate the stakeholders that matter most.
A lot of communications activity happens without a clear reason behind it. Wrong channel, wrong message, wrong audience. Akoya exists to fix that. We lead with strategy, not production, and we push back on the impulse to create communications just for the sake of creating them. We are not an IT company, a management consultancy, or a human capital firm that bundles communications in with everything else. This is what we do, and that singular focus makes a difference. Before anyone starts creating products or picking channels, we help clients answer the questions that matter: Who are you trying to reach? What do you want them to do? Why this product, why this channel, why now? Federal clients tell us consistently that this approach gives them a discernible edge in reaching, persuading, and motivating the stakeholders and partners that matter most to their mission. Every effort is grounded in strategic thinking and rigorous audience analysis, because understanding who you’re talking to and what moves them is what separates communications that lands from communications that gets ignored.
Collaborating with brilliant scientists at the Department of Energy and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, we helped guide the LED lighting revolution in the early ‘wild west’ days with clear, concise communications that separated myths from facts and promoted the use of high-quality, high-performance LED products.
Karen Marchese, Project Manager