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
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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
Elevating Workers' Voices
Save MI Tips
After a devastating court ruling threatened their income, we helped elevate the voices of those most affected. Servers and bartenders spoke out to protect their money & jobs.
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.
Protecting the Economy
Reopen Michigan Safely
We created and led a major coalition of Michigan job creators in a successful campaign to #EndTheOfficeBan and stop temporary restrictions from being a permanent economic burden.
Sexual Assault Legislation
Empowering Survivors
Survivors of sexual assault deserve a path to justice. We worked with a bipartisan set of legislators and advocates to publicize support for new policy and elevate voices of survivors.
Education & Safety
Change For Oxford
Working with parents, we told the stories of students, moms & dads who wanted to know that their learning environment is safe and community leaders have a plan to make it happen.
Public Safety Millage
Protecting Our Community
When you call 911 in an emergency, you expect to get help. We worked with stakeholders to help emergency responders to be trained and ready to help families in a crisis.
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.