ADVOCATING AT THE INTERSECTION OF
MEDIA, POLITICS & POLICY
MICHIGAN'S PR & PUBLIC AFFAIRS AGENCY
PR & PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Our team, led by John Sellek, earned its PR & public affairs skills through years of bipartisan battles in the legislative, executive, legal and political realms, bringing a campaign perspective to your needs.
Meet Our Team
WHAT WE DO:
PR & PUBLIC AFFAIRS
PUBLIC RELATIONS
By refining your message through research, using our trusted relationships with media from Michigan to D.C. and telling your story through interviews, podcast, press conferences, groundbreakings, and more, we get results.
SOCIAL MEDIA & DIGITAL
ADVERTISING
Using business intelligence and data to target your storytelling to the correct audiences in a world of noise is vital to successful messaging campaigns.
PUBLIC
AFFAIRS
Our team helps with issue management by building bipartisan coalitions of citizens and organizations, conducting ballot initiatives and more to communicate with key decision makers from Lansing to Washington.
CRISIS COMMS & REPUTATION MANAGEMENT
Facing a comms crisis requires a combo of speed and experience that Harbor's team gained in years of advising businesses and political leadership. Anticipating problems and building reputations in good times is a must.
LAW &
COURTS
Harbor's experience with legal communications is unequaled after serving two state attorneys general in criminal and civil cases, and working to achieve justice for survivors of abuse in small & large cases.
CLIENTS COUNT ON US.
FROM TC TO DC.
Our clients, from Michigan and Ohio, to California, Washington, D.C. and everywhere in between, count on us for PR and Public Affairs strategic planning and results.
OUR WORK
Michigan's Hospitality Industry
Save MI Tips
After out-of-state activists jeopardized the income and job security of restaurant servers and bartenders, Harbor rallied workers to get a new bipartisan law in place.
Infrastructure Legislation
Build It Michigan Strong
Michigan's roads are getting fixed but inflationary costs are eating into our budgets. We created a bipartisan labor and business coalition to support a new statewide aggregates permitting plan.
Boosting Michigan Tourism
National Cherry Festival
Michigan is a world leader in cherry production and the annual National Cherry Festival generates over $30 million in economic activity around Traverse City and beyond.
Environment & Economy
MI Success Coalition
Michigan must take control of cutting-edge carbon capture policy to create jobs and protect the environment, as competing states fight for economic development projects.
Economic Development
Flint Commerce Center
Harbor helped publicize the rebirth of the famed Buick City industrial site in Flint, as a Michigan firm leads the redevelopment of brownfields, creating jobs and hope.
Fighting For Justice
Sexual Assault Survivors
The survivors of sexual assault are lobbying for legal reforms allowing them to pursue justice in the courtroom. Harbor helped them be heard at the Capitol Building.
WE MAKE NEWS
It's our job to know their media and know how to help you story reach your targeted audience. Using media relations, events, social media, digital advertising and more, we make sure your story is told.
Plus, we are on the media's speed-dial for our expert analysis of Michigan's public policy and political atmosphere.
ABOUT
HARBOR STRATEGIC
Harbor Strategic is Michigan's PR & public affairs agency. Founded in 2019, Harbor is based in Lansing and operates in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Washington, D.C. and beyond. We put our experiences from tough legislative, political and media battles to work for you.
We have a bipartisan capitol network and hard-earned credibility with the media. Using tools like strategic message development, media relations, social & digital, and grassroots networks, Harbor places top public relations and political experts by your side when everything is on the line.
Breaking through the chaotic political environment, planning the smartest strategy, waking a grassroots army, addressing a public relations crisis– Harbor Strategic knows what to do next.
What are we waiting for? Let’s get started!
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CONTACT US
Our team has fought tough, bipartisan PR battles in the legislative, executive, legal and political realms. We are ready to put our experience to work for you. Contact us now.