- Distill your mission
- Design your story
- Master the medium
- Maximize your impact
A strategic communications agency specializing in enhancing reputations, raising resources and activating audiences. For 25 years, Michael Golden has been building mission-driven organizations and advising CEOs, non-profits and national political candidates.
Services
"Our north star is making the difference in how you make a difference."
The Goal:
Golden Mean Strategies was founded on a simple principle: Everyone has a story worth telling. It is in the crafting of the narrative and the effectiveness of its dissemination that can make all the difference in achieving success and maximizing impact.
Whatever worthwhile goal you are pursuing – we help you to accomplish it.
The Approach:
Through strategic messaging, savvy public relations and hands-on communications coaching, Golden Mean Strategies works to elevate your brand and secure the visibility, partners, and resources essential to success.
GMS matches our services with your specific goals and needs. Once we’re in alignment on the strategy and the plan, you have a dynamic advocate in your corner.
The Background:
Driving innovative solutions – and communicating why they matter – has defined Michael Golden’s career. For 25 years he has led political and public relations campaigns and advised CEOs, non-profits and national political candidates. Michael is the Chair of the 2019 Gery Chico For Mayor of Chicago campaign.
Michael has worked as a strategist on races for the White House, U.S. Senate and U.S. House. He is the cofounder of Newsbound, Complete The Degree and One Million Degrees. Michael is also the author of Unlock Congress and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Center. See More +
Since authoring Unlock Congress in 2014, Michael has given presentations on government and democracy to universities, non-profits and corporations. He is an adjunct professor at Arizona State University and has served in Senior Fellowships at the Open Society Institute, the British-American Project and the Center for American Progress.
Michael’s greatest motivator is his passion for empowering people. He has recruited some of the most prominent business and political leaders in the country to support ground-breaking civic and educational initiatives. He has also raised millions of dollars to help fuel social enterprises – while attracting national news coverage to advance their missions.
Michael has always been drawn to taking on new challenges in new fields. As a result, his background runs wide and deep. He applies all of this experience to help leaders and organizations to clarify their missions and build their most powerful narratives. Michael then coaches clients on how to tell their stories most effectively; how to communicate confidently, comfortably — and CONNECT.
