Helping companies and organizations take a stand on critical policy matters that help their brand and their bottom line
State and Federal have never been as important to a company’s brand — or bottom line — as they are today. Making a persuasive case for an innovative policy solution that reaches policymakers’ ears can be vital to a company’s growth. The Antenna Group Public Affairs team brings a wealth of experience in helping companies, non-profit organizations and individuals distill and communicate their nuanced positions on critical matters at the federal, state and local levels. Our team understands the messages that will resonate with policymakers and gets those messages into sources policymakers know and trust.
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Whether it’s international disputes, presidential campaigns, state legislative issues or community affairs, the Antenna Group Public Affairs team has extensive experience with building and leading diverse and vocal coalitions around critical policy positions at the global, national, state and local levels. Antenna Group Public Affairs possesses the political acumen, policy expertise, influencer networks and strategic communications skills that organizations need to convert relevant stakeholders from would-be bystanders into sympathetic and deliberate allies.
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Constructively engaging with the policymakers and influencers who can adopt and implement a policy solution requires a steady hand and a trusted guide. The Antenna Group Public Affairs team understands who policymakers listen to and what they are trying to achieve. We work with organizations to help them align their policy solutions with what policymakers want and need. We then work with influencers, media or policymakers themselves to ensure a proposed policy solution becomes part of the policy discussion and, ultimately, established policy.
For over 20 years, Andy Beck has worked in the upper echelons of the U.S. government and the private sector successfully spearheading public relations, marketing and public affairs campaigns that moved the needle.
For over 20 years, Andy Beck has worked in the upper echelons of the U.S. government and the private sector successfully spearheading public relations, marketing and public affairs campaigns that moved the needle. By engaging policymakers and the media, influencing influencers, building grassroots and social media momentum, developing alliances, driving consensus toward desired business and political results and opening new markets; he has helped companies and organizations gain greater brand recognition, profit from increased sales, influence policy and mitigate crises.
A first-rate strategic thinker, Andy is an expert at boiling down complex issues and persuasively articulating his clients’ case to a broad range of stakeholders through multiple channels. In doing so, he has developed a reputation as one of the nation’s most innovative communicators in the energy, manufacturing, transportation, finance and environmental sustainability sectors.
Andy has an impressive book of media and government contacts and a tremendous understanding of the workings of the U.S. and international governments, having served as the Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Energy—the U.S. government’s top energy spokesperson and communications strategist. He also served as the senior communications and outreach advisor to the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as a senior communications advisor the U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary.
Hardy Spire is a veteran communicator specializing in media strategy & campaigns, messaging, public affairs and creative development. Hardy is an experienced media trainer and crisis manager and has worked extensively with C-suite executives.
Hardy Spire is a veteran communicator specializing in media strategy & campaigns, messaging, public affairs and creative development. Hardy is an experienced media trainer and crisis manager and has worked extensively with C-suite executives.
Prior to his public relations career, Hardy spent more than two decades as a national television news producer. Most recently Hardy worked as a Senior Producer at CNN in Washington, D.C. where he oversaw production of “Inside Politics” with John King each weekday and Sunday, and prior to that, “Reliable Sources” with Brian Stelter and Howard Kurtz. He also spent time on the production teams for “The Lead”, “The Situation Room”, and “State of the Union”. Hardy was part of CNN’s Emmy-award winning 2012 election night broadcast.
Before CNN, Hardy was in charge of “EnergyNOW!”, a Capitol Hill-based weekly television news magazine airing on Bloomberg and WJLA-TV where his team of former network news correspondents and producers delved into the most pressing stories of the day about energy, the environment, technology, and politics.
Hardy began his career at CBS News in New York, and later Washington, D.C. He spent fifteen years learning the news business from the ground up including four years traveling the world as White House producer for CBS correspondent Bill Plante, and later as Senior Producer for the CBS News Early Show.
