Services

How We Work

Black Alder partners with authors, creatives, organizations, companies, and leaders to translate vision into strategy and strategy into action. We work across narrative, communications, and digital ecosystems to help clients clarify what they are building, how they want to be understood, and how to reach the audiences that matter most to their long-term goals.

Our work is collaborative and tailored, and we do not apply templates. We build strategies that reflect the values, voice, and ambition of each client, and we stay closely involved to ensure those strategies hold up in practice.

Strategic Communications

We support clients in developing comprehensive communications strategies that align with their values, strengthen credibility, and advance long-term objectives. Our approach integrates narrative clarity with tactical execution, ensuring communications efforts are cohesive across platforms, moments, and audiences.

Our strategic communications work includes:

• Brand positioning and narrative alignment

• Public relations strategy and earned media planning

• Narrative strategy and story architecture

• Media engagement and relationship-building

• Message development and refinement

• Audience analysis and engagement strategy

• Spokesperson development and media readiness

We work with organizations and individuals to ensure their communications are not only compelling, but disciplined, durable, and responsive to shifting cultural, political, social, and digital contexts.

Digital Strategy

We help clients build the digital infrastructure and strategic clarity needed to engage audiences effectively in an evolving media landscape. Our digital work focuses on alignment, sustainability, and reach, ensuring that platforms support strategy rather than fragment it.

Our digital services include:

• Social media strategy and content development

• Digital advertising strategy and campaign planning

• Digital organizing and audience mobilization strategy

• SMS and email marketing strategy

• Web and digital property assessments

We design digital ecosystems that support long-term growth, deepen engagement, and reinforce narrative consistency across channels.

Crisis Communication and Rapid Response Support

We take the responsibility of supporting clients in moments of risk and crisis seriously. Our approach prioritizes clear assessment, thoughtful mitigation, and disciplined execution, with attention to the people most impacted by the situation at hand.

Our crisis and rapid response work includes:

• Risk assessment and scenario planning

• Immediate and long-term mitigation strategies

• Message development under pressure

• Spokesperson preparation and support

• Media engagement during crisis moments

• On-site and real-time rapid response support

We help clients navigate high-stakes moments with clarity, care, and strategic foresight.

Coaching and Advising

We work with authors, creatives, executives, and organizational leaders to strengthen their voice, leadership presence, and strategic confidence. Our coaching and advising engagements are tailored to each client’s goals and grounded in helping leaders navigate complexity while staying aligned with their vision.

Our coaching and advising support:

• Leadership development and decision-making

• Thought leadership positioning

• Public-facing voice and narrative clarity

• Professional growth and capacity-building

• Strategic advising during periods of transition or expansion

We believe well-supported leaders build stronger teams and more resilient organizations.

Training and Facilitation

We offer training and facilitation designed to strengthen communications capacity, deepen narrative alignment, and support organizational learning. Our sessions are practical, grounded, and responsive to the needs of each group.

Our training offerings include:

• Narrative strategy and storytelling workshops

• Communications skills development

• Media training and spokesperson preparation

• Trauma-informed facilitation and engagement

*Pricing varies depending on the combination of services needed.*