SERVICES &
PRACTICE AREAS
OUR SERVICES
We provide government affairs, public policy advice and advocacy, public relations, community affairs, corporate social responsibility planning, education consulting, diversity and inclusion training, and other consulting services to our clients.
Our team has experience with a wide range of public-policy issues, including healthcare, banking and financial regulation, energy and natural resources, education, technology, consumer products, and services, food safety and agriculture, transportation, defense, and national security, government contracting and procurement, the regulatory rule-making process, sports and entertainment, diversity and inclusion, civil rights, and law and corporate compliance.
For many of our client engagements, our services overlap, serving our clients seamlessly with various types of external relations support. For example, we might employ public relations strategies to indirectly support our government relations work or event development work with communities to support a public relations campaign.
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GOVERNMENT RELATIONS & PUBLIC POLICY
We build bipartisan relationships and advocate for clients within the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, the White House, federal executive agencies, state agencies and legislatures, and local governments.
We have the experience and networks to mobilize the many forces in Washington, DC, and in state capitals around the country, to achieve our clients’ objectives. We are well-positioned to provide political, legislative, and regulatory guidance on important policy issues to our clients. We specialize in translating complex public policy initiatives, and we work to craft strategies with bipartisan appeal that reach targeted audiences and achieve a legislative agenda in line with our clients’ interests.
Our Services Include:
Advocacy and Lobbying in the Congressional Legislative and Regulatory Rule-Making Processes
Advocacy and Lobbying in State and Local Governments
Legislative and Regulatory Monitoring and Analysis
Tri-Caucus Engagement
Federal Budget and Appropriations Advocacy
Government Reform and Oversight Tracking
Third Party Engagement and Issue Campaign Development
Congressional Fly-In Coordination
Public Policy Analysis and Advice
Government Grant and Funding Guidance
BUSINESS RESILIENCE
With the return of our Founder Lamell McMorris, Phase 2 Consulting is pleased to offer resilience as a premier specialty area in our practice. As we move through times of rapid transformation in technology, weather patterns, and everchanging political tides, resilience is critical to the success of business operations. The cross-sector response to COVID-19 and its aftermath shows a deep need for companies to invest in strategies for resilience, and as AI gets more integrated into our daily lives, the need for resilience and planning for the unknown becomes even more urgent.
Phase 2 offers expertise in resilience strategy, planning and risk management in:
Workforce development
Regulatory compliance
Training, policy development
Program evaluation
Community relations
Rapid communication preparedness
Advocacy across the political spectrum.
Change strategy and management
EDUCATION POLICY STRATEGY & ADVOCACY
Phase 2 Consulting has expansive relationships in the education community across the country and decades of experience in education policy that benefit the firm’s clients. Over the years, its education practice group, led by Ray Anderson, Jr., has had deep relationships within the White House; the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies; the U.S. House of Representatives Education Committee; the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions; state departments of education; local superintendents’ offices and school boards; national education policy groups; national education organizations and associations; and teachers’ unions.
Phase 2 helps its clients change education policies at the federal and state levels, by working with legislators and regulators. It works with clients to monitor public policy developments, identify funding opportunities and grants, obtain government and private funding for projects, develop public support for projects and initiatives, build relationships and issue coalitions, and leverage third party relationships for business development. For its corporate clients outside of the education sector, it has helped advance STEM education philanthropy projects, education and mentoring partnerships with nonprofits, and other education initiatives of importance to the clients’ core businesses.
Moreover, the firm’s education clients benefit from Phase 2's expertise and relationships in other policy areas that impact schools and education groups, like healthcare and social services, mental health, government benefits and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), nutrition and wellness, mentoring and afterschool programs, the criminal justice system, infrastructure, local school boards, bond campaigns and school board elections, and nonprofit governance.
Our Service Include:
Congressional and Regulatory Advocacy and Lobbying
Government Grant and Funding Advice
State and Local Government Advocacy and Lobbying
Third Party Relationship Building
STEM Education Partnerships
Mentoring Initiatives
Social Services and Education Consulting
PUBLIC RELATIONS & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
At Phase 2, we deploy multifaceted public relations strategies to educate targeted audiences about the services provided by our clients, the role our clients play in their communities, and the relationships that they have and that we have helped them build. By crafting simple messages about complex issues, we are able to lead effective corporate communication campaigns. Whether it’s through crafting op-eds, drafting press releases, speech writing, conference panel development, preparing talking points and briefing materials for client executives, promoting news stories, or building a social media campaign, our team is uniquely positioned to develop our clients’ messages and put them in front of the right audiences.
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We have earned national recognition for counseling our clients on a full range of community affairs, matters around belonging, and corporate social responsibility planning. Our team has helped Fortune 50 corporations, industry associations, nonprofits, and clients of all shapes and sizes to convey their commitment to corporate social responsibility, to inculcate the values of inclusion and equity into their corporate cultures, and to develop comprehensive community affairs initiatives.
Our CEO, Lamell McMorris, has had decades of experience in helping corporations organize and coordinate community affairs programs, policies, and outreach. Additionally, our professionals have worked in the federal government, private arena, and the nonprofit sector to create comprehensive programs for compliance, community engagement, and social responsibility for their clients.
Clients seeking diversity management and corporate social responsibility forecasting services engage us because of our longstanding relationships with ethnic and social advocacy groups and because of the multidisciplinary approach we take to meet our clients’ needs. Through our ongoing participation and leadership positions in third-party service and advocacy organizations, we provide our clients with additional access to opinion leaders and national figures. These relationships are vital as we work to develop strategies and policy recommendations to meet our clients’ specialized needs.
Our Services Include:
Crisis communications and management
Visibility program design that turns ideas into compelling and targeted narratives
Translation of complex concepts into clear and compelling messages
Alliance and Coalition Building
Grassroots and Grasstops engagement
Third-party relationship management
AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SAFETY
APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGETS
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
CIVIL RIGHTS
COMMUNICATIONS
CONSUMER PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND MANUFACTURING
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
DEFENSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
EDUCATION
ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, AND NATURAL RESOURCES
GAMING
GLOBAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING, PROCUREMENT, AND GRANTS
HEALTHCARE
INTERNATIONAL TRADE – IMPORTS, EXPORTS, AND COMPLIANCE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
TAX
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSPORTATION AND AVIATION