True North Strategies helps businesses, associations, and nonprofits navigate the government and community decisions that affect expansion, stalled projects, and day-to-day operations — built on meaningful relationships and meaningful results.
Understand the government decisions that affect a Georgia expansion or market entry.
Business Growth & Expansion →Diagnose the bottleneck and coordinate a path forward with the people who can move it.
Project Troubleshooting →Get direct representation before the agency, board, or legislative body making the call.
Government Affairs →Get principal-led external affairs support without hiring a full-time executive.
Fractional External Affairs →Planning a new Georgia location, an expansion, or a market entry brings a set of government decisions most companies only navigate once. We map those decisions, assess the parties involved, and sequence a plan so leadership knows what's coming and who's responsible for it.
Discuss Your ExpansionA structured leadership interview, government decision map, a review of the parties involved, and a sequenced 90-day action plan — delivered as a written assessment with an executive discussion of the findings.
See what's included →Mapping the government decisions, and the officials and agencies behind them, for companies planning a Georgia location, expansion, or market entry.
Diagnosis and a coordinated action plan when a business project stalls in front of an agency, a board, or parties who aren't aligned.
Ongoing, principal-led government and community affairs support for a company without a full-time external affairs executive.
Local, state, and federal government can be mysterious to businesses facing policy challenges. We help organizations navigate issues that frequently require attention at multiple levels of government at once.
We organize the constituents and local supporters whose word carries weight at the Capitol, turning them into testimony, calls, and turnout at the moments a bill actually gets decided.
We fit our local work to each part of Georgia and find the independent local leaders and organizations willing to make your case for you.
Lobbying, grassroots, and local-ally work only move a priority forward when they point the same direction at the same time. We run them as one managed effort instead of leaving each piece to work in isolation.
Understand which decisions affect your project and who is responsible for each one.
Focus leadership attention on the issues and uncertainties that actually matter.
Clarify next steps, responsibilities, and sequence for the work ahead.
See progress, unresolved issues, and the decisions leadership still needs to make.
Representation for hospitals, health systems, and advocacy organizations before state health and regulatory agencies.
Government affairs for utilities, transit, and infrastructure organizations navigating local and state decisions.
Legislative and regulatory representation for associations and their members across Georgia.
A short conversation about your issue, timing, and goals, and whether we're a fit — not a commitment to representation.
We confirm scope, capacity, and any conflicts before moving forward.
For business growth and troubleshooting assignments, a scoped assessment maps the decisions and the parties involved.
We put the plan into action, coordinated with your legal, technical, and internal teams.
Some assignments continue as ongoing government affairs or fractional external affairs support.
We bring the government strategy and the relationships with officials; your attorneys, engineers, brokers, and internal leadership stay responsible for the legal and technical work. We coordinate alongside them, not around them.
Discuss Your Business ChallengeBernard Reynolds and Ellen Williams Reynolds lead every True North Strategies assignment personally.
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An initial strategy conversation is about twenty minutes — covering your issue, timing, and goals so we can both tell whether we're a fit. It isn't a commitment to representation.
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