We Make
Campaigns
That
Navigate
the Next

We bring together powerful earned-first creativity with expertise in brand strategy, social impact, issue advocacy, and corporate reputation. This means we can build powerful brands with cultural currency, solve complex business problems, and even tackle society’s biggest challenges.

How? Cultural Power

Cultural Power is the advantage we create for our clients, helping them harness socio-cultural forces to drive demand, deliver brand growth, create transformational change and move the needle on some of society’s most pressing issues.

Here's how we do it:

  1. 01 Earned-First Creativity We build integrated brand platforms designed to generate and shift cultural conversation. These combine paid, earned and owned advertising channels in ways that help brands cut through in our increasingly fragmented media landscape and land outsize impact.

  2. 02 Culturally Powerful Tools The Cultural Power Index, our proprietary AI-powered, diagnostic tool lets us diagnose how brands occupy culture and our Social Forces Monitor allows us to see where macro socio-cultural trends are headed next. By combining these tools we can develop strategies and campaigns that help brands cut through and grow.

  3. 03 Issues Expertise We have helped  brands and organizations navigate some of the most critical issues of our time in technology, public health, education, finance, environment, global development, and social justice. Using our trust-building playbook and behavior change models, we create real transformative impact on long standing challenges.

  4. 04 Agile Full-service Production We produce at the speed of culture—through a powerful mix of core in-house capabilities and a constellation of creative collaborators. Agile, integrated, and built for every channel, our production model keeps your brand relevant, consistent, and connected.

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Our Services

Marketing and Communications

  • Brand and Communications Strategy + Planning
  • Advertising + Content
  • Branding + Design
  • Production
  • Social Media + Creator Marketing
  • PR, Communications + Reputation

Strategic Advisory

  • Executive Consulting
  • CEO Communications
  • Business Transformation
  • Social Impact
  • Audience Definition + Insights

Issue Advocacy

  • Policy Marketing
  • Issue Advocacy

Our Leadership

Nadja Bellan-White
CEO
Amy Frisch
Managing Director, Client Services
Andrew Acampora
CFO
John Swartz
Managing Director, Production & Operations
Katie Chlada
Managing Director, Head of Strategic Communications & Advisory Services
Kevin Skobac
Managing Director, Strategy Group
Piper Hickman
Executive Creative Director
Sheila Ortiguera
Chief People Officer
Stevie Archer
Chief Creative Officer

Founder Advisors

Lenny Stern
SS+K Co-founder and Advisor
Rob Shepardson
SS+K Co-founder and Advisor

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