Georgia Government Affairs

Georgia Government Affairs That Advance Your Organization's Priorities

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.

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What Is Your Business Trying to Accomplish?

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Business Growth & Expansion

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 stakeholders involved, and sequence a plan so leadership knows what's coming and who's responsible for it.

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Starts with a Business Expansion Assessment

A structured leadership interview, government decision map, stakeholder assessment, and a sequenced 90-day action plan — delivered as a written assessment with an executive discussion of the findings.

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Why True North

Meaningful relationships. Meaningful results.

80+
Years of combined experience
3
Levels of government — local, state, federal
19+
Clients represented across Georgia
Services

Built for business growth and government affairs alike

Business Growth & Expansion

Government decision mapping and stakeholder assessment for companies planning a Georgia location, expansion, or market entry.

Project Troubleshooting

Diagnosis and a coordinated action plan when a business project stalls in front of an agency, a board, or disconnected stakeholders.

Fractional External Affairs

Ongoing, principal-led government and community affairs support for a company without a full-time external affairs executive.

Established Advocacy Services

Representation across every level of government

Government Affairs

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.

Grassroots Strategies

We organize the constituents and local voices whose word carries weight at the Capitol, turning them into testimony, calls, and turnout at the moments a bill actually gets decided.

Community & Coalition Engagement

We plant your story where it actually lands — in the communities themselves — and line up the outside voices and coalition partners who make your case for you.

Public Affairs Campaign Management

Advocacy, grassroots, and coalition work only move a priority forward when they're pointed the same direction at the same time. We run them as one managed campaign instead of leaving each piece to work in isolation.

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What You Receive

Deliverables built for leadership decisions

Government Decision Map

Understand which decisions affect your project and who is responsible for each one.

Prioritized Obstacle Assessment

Focus leadership attention on the issues and uncertainties that actually matter.

90-Day Action Plan

Clarify next steps, responsibilities, and sequence for the work ahead.

Executive Progress Briefing

See progress, unresolved issues, and the decisions leadership still needs to make.

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Who We Help

Sectors where we've built government relationships

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Representation for hospitals, health systems, and advocacy organizations before state health and regulatory agencies.

Economic Development & Infrastructure

Government affairs for utilities, transit, and infrastructure organizations navigating local and state decisions.

Trade & Professional Associations

Legislative and regulatory representation for associations and their members across Georgia.

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Insights

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Engagement Process

How an engagement starts

  1. Introductory Conversation

    A short conversation about your issue, timing, and goals, and whether we're a fit — not a commitment to representation.

  2. Fit Review

    We confirm scope, capacity, and any conflicts before moving forward.

  3. Paid Assessment, Where Appropriate

    For business growth and troubleshooting engagements, a scoped assessment maps the decisions and stakeholders involved.

  4. Implementation

    We put the plan into action, coordinated with your legal, technical, and internal teams.

  5. Ongoing Representation, If Needed

    Some engagements continue as ongoing government affairs or fractional external affairs support.

Working With Your Advisers

We coordinate. We don't replace your advisers.

We bring the government strategy and stakeholder engagement; your attorneys, engineers, brokers, and internal leadership stay responsible for the legal and technical work. We coordinate alongside them, not around them.

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Our Team

Direct principal involvement, every engagement

Bernard Reynolds and Ellen Williams Reynolds lead every True North Strategies engagement 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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