Important objectives do not succeed on internal logic alone.
A company may have a sound plan and still fall short if its strategy, actions, claims, and relationships are not aligned with the people and institutions that can shape the outcome.
EJStrategies brings an intelligence-informed approach to understanding the internal and external realities around an objective—testing assumptions, identifying the audiences and forces that matter, and clarifying what could constrain progress. The firm then helps leaders determine what to do, what to say, whom to engage, and how to sequence the work to move forward.
EJStrategies is most useful when:
Elie Jacobs
Elie Jacobs is a strategic communications and public-affairs adviser, a founding partner of Purposeful Advisors, and formerly a senior advisor with Crumpton Global. He advises leaders navigating consequential decisions in complex, public-facing environments, drawing on experience across communications, public affairs, and politics.
Through EJStrategies, Elie provides direct senior counsel on strategy, communications, stakeholder engagement, and reputation, bringing in additional collaborators when an engagement requires broader capabilities.
His writing has appeared in Strategic, O’Dwyer’s, PR Daily, Board Agenda, the New York Daily News, and The Experiment. It examines the assumptions, claims, and external dynamics that shape consequential outcomes.
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View all writing →Elie’s writing applies ideas from intelligence analysis, organizational decision-making, and strategic communications to the assumptions, claims, and external dynamics that shape consequential outcomes.
