Karat Communications offers strategy, process, and message development consultation and management for corporate, government, nonprofit, and political clients. We love nothing more than helping you show up and become the leader your market needs.
Established leaders seeking to extend your reach, bridge divides, manage change, or navigate crisis communications, will find our team of experts to be aligned with your exact needs.
And while our defense is strong, years of experience have only deepened our belief that real magic is basic at heart. That’s why we love demonstrating how clearly defined vision, mission, and values statements create the perfect foundation for organizational buy-in, scale, and mass raving fan appeal.
Created to help leaders lead, Karat Communications helps organizations break through the clutter to deliver messaging that conveys clarity and strength. When it comes to stickiness, impact, and messaging, we offer unparalleled personalized services and build individual and institutional capacity along the way.
CONSULTING SERVICES
Crisis Communications
Strategy
Content Development
Conflict Resolution
Community Relations
Business Foundations
Vision, Mission, Company Values
EXPERTISE
Government & Political Services
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- Stakeholder Engagement
- Roundtable, Town Hall, & Dialogue Facilitation
- Crisis Communications Planning & Response
- Positioning for Office or Investment
- Thought-Leadership Positioning
- Reputation Management
- Police Community Relations
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External Communications
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- Strategy and Development
- Corporate to Community Engagement
- Industry Thought-Leadership
- Brand / Voice Management
- Positioning
- Crisis Communications
- Reputation Management
- Multi-Cultural Communications
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Internal Communications
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- Strategy and Development
- Corporate Climate
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Change Management Communications
- Town Hall Facilitation
- Executive Leadership
- Positioning
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Small, Medium, & StartUp Businesses
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- Business Foundations – Vision, Mission, Values
- Strategy Session – Business Model & Scale
- Content Development
- Online Brand Audit – Digital Real Estate Review
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Peace & Conflict Resolution
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- Conflict Assessment
- Program Design and Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Dialogue Facilitation
- Mediation
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Our Values
- We believe in leading by example and are committed to bringing out the potential of others, helping leaders and organizations establish relationships with stakeholders, repair trust when broken, and establish thought-leadership within an industry.
- We believe in connection, across channels, beyond borders, where we live, work, and serve.
- We believe in setting standards of authenticity, and have been honored to be at the helm of transformational change time and time again. While many agencies seek to project, we believe communications are most powerful when they reveal, engage, and inspire.
- If the words trust, voice, reach, and impact resonate – you’re in the right place.
- We we understand the need for confidentiality, sensitivity, and the importance of timing.
- If you’re in a position where you need to rebuild, have no fear, it’s never too late. We live in an era of infinite possibility for those willing to take the few critical steps necessary.
About
Suzanne V. Buchanan
Senior Principal
With over 20 years of progressive experience delivering strategic communications and conflict resolution solutions for clients in the United States and overseas, Suzanne loves bringing out the potential of others and building client capacity to overcome the communications challenges they face.
After starting her career in the advertising sector working as a copywriter for corporate telecom, national retailers, and financial sector accounts, Suzanne quickly realized her appetite for challenge and ability to bridge divides. Always in pursuit of growth and passionate about extending reach, she advanced from regional to national to multicultural and international communications, developing an independent communications practice serving the international development field overseas in South Asia which only deepened her understanding of the power of communications to affect change.
Corporate – Government – Nonprofit
Global
Moving beyond marketing and organizational communications, Suzanne significantly expanded her skills in the alternative dispute resolution space working internationally and on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice to provide crisis prevention and response, facilitation, mediation, reconciliation, and confidential consultation for political and corporate leaders.
Seasoned in crisis response and change management communications, clients will find she adeptly navigates sensitive terrain.
Whether working with corporate, government, nonprofit, political, or startup clients, her analytical skills and global experience have enabled her to hit the ground running in the tech, fintech, healthcare, telecom, financial, manufacturing, engineering, energy, oil and gas, renewable, and military space.
Passionate about stakeholder engagement and meaningful connections, Suzanne and her team comfortably work with clients, projects, and stakeholders in the U.S., Middle East, South Asia, South America, Africa, and beyond. When not working in the corporate, startup, or global peace and conflict space, Suzanne can often be found traveling and building resources for the chronic disease community.
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Notes
Your Vision & Mission Statements Matter – and ALWAYS Will!
Who are you? Why are you here? How can you help? Who do you serve? What’s your story? What do you value? What are you trying to accomplish? What is the legacy you seek to build? So who are you? Well, that depends. Not you personally, the business, unless you...
What do you stand for and when to stand?
What do you stand for? There was a time when questions like these were ones only politicians had to answer. Companies weren’t actually considered groups of people with human characteristics much fewer values. They were considered structures and entities with one...
