Fractional Communications Leadership

Some organizations have a communications function.
Most have a gap where one should be.

A fractional communications partner for executives who need embedded support — without the ramp-up, the overhead, or the three-week proposal.

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When clients call me

The gap shows up differently for every organization.

But it usually sounds something like this.

“We’re announcing a major restructuring in three weeks and I don’t have a communications lead.”

“We’re heading into contentious labor negotiations and I need someone who’s been through it and can keep us a step ahead.”

“Our enterprise comms team doesn’t have bandwidth for what’s happening in my business.”

“We have a strategy employees need to understand and buy into — but it isn’t landing.”

“I need someone who can write, think strategically, and help with something this week. Not next month.”

How I Can Help

Experienced counsel and hands-on execution.

Union negotiations, workforce reductions, labor relations strategy, and the day-to-day messaging that shapes how employees understand and trust the organization they work for. The most complex and highest-stakes communications work in any regulated or manufacturing environment — and where I have deep experience.

All-hands communications, leadership announcements, board and investor presentations, and the ongoing work of building a leader’s voice and credibility with the people who matter most.

When the organization is changing — a restructure, an acquisition, a leadership transition — internal communications either accelerates the change or becomes an obstacle to it. I build the messaging architecture that keeps people informed, aligned, and moving in the same direction.

When something goes wrong — operationally, legally, reputationally — the communications response often determines how bad the situation gets and how long it lasts. Real-time counsel and support when the stakes are highest and the window for getting it right is narrow.

Developing a cohesive stakeholder narrative built for credibility, clarity, and the right level of candor at every level — making it easier to explain what you stand for and where you are going across audiences.

Leadership conferences, employee engagement events, executive speeches, media engagements — individual projects where you need communications thinking applied to a specific moment.

What makes this different

For leaders who need a partner, not a program.

Most organizations are under-resourced in actual communications leadership. Marketing gets the budget, the headcount, and the strategy sessions. Communications — the function that shapes how leaders speak, how employees trust, and how organizations hold together under pressure — is treated as an afterthought.

When the need surfaces, the options are unappealing: agencies that charge a premium to staff a large team that still needs you to explain your own business before they can produce anything useful. Junior staff who can execute but cannot lead. Or a headcount request that moves slowly through approval channels — if it moves at all.

There is another option.

As a fractional leader, Katie works directly with you, and has enough range to handle whatever the situation demands — from a workforce reduction to a board presentation to a leadership transition.

Have questions about how this works?

From engagement structure to how I’m different from an agency — I’ve answered the ones I hear most.

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You work directly with a trusted partner

No layers between you and the person doing the work. Every call, every deliverable, every decision — directly with me.

Real deliverables. Real deadlines. Real work.

Strategy matters. So does execution. You’ll get both — drafts, frameworks, materials, messaging — built around your voice and your business.

Immediate contribution

No lengthy discovery phases. No decks about our process. The first conversation is the beginning of the work — not the beginning of a proposal.

An honest read when you need it the most

You don’t need someone to tell you what you want to hear. Even when pressure rises, you’ll get pragmatic, discreet counsel and support. That’s the job.

Let’s Talk

Tell me what you’re navigating.

If there is a fit, we will figure it out together.

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Kennedy Creative Co. · Cleveland, Ohio · katie@kennedycreativeco.com

Some organizations have a communications function. Most have a gap where one should be.

The gap shows up differently for every organization.

Experienced counsel and hands-on execution.

For leaders who need a partner, not a program.

Tell me what you’re navigating.

Some organizations have a communications function.
Most have a gap where one should be.