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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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 — for companies, associations, and nonprofits.
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.
How We Help With 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 →Bernard Reynolds and Ellen Williams Reynolds lead every assignment personally, with relationships in all 159 Georgia counties and at the Capitol. Here is what that looks like in the field.
Five years of Georgia roundtables that put patients, caregivers, and local providers in front of House and Senate offices, backed by letters to the editor and written follow-up.
Read the case →Retired teachers and other seniors met congressional staff in Georgia, wrote letters for community papers, and gave a national group a clean count of what really happened.
Read the case →Constituent letters, nonprofit and faith-community supporters, and a direct contact with a Georgia House member immediately before the vote on a federal food-security bill.
Read the case →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. For business growth and troubleshooting work, a scoped, paid Business Expansion Assessment maps the decisions and the parties involved before anything else starts.
We put the plan into action alongside your attorneys, engineers, brokers, and internal leadership — we coordinate with them, not around them. Some assignments continue as ongoing government affairs or fractional external affairs support.
Bernard 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.
