Award-Winning Public Relations and Advocacy Firm
About Us
What We Do
K.O. Strategies helps clients communicate effectively and advocate to achieve their goals. We provide strategic communications, public affairs, strategic planning, and lobbying services.
What's Your Goal?
Our work starts with one question:
What’s your goal?
We will help you achieve it.
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Award-Winning Firm
Winner of Several National and Regional PR and Advocacy awards
- Award of Excellence (Public Relations Society of America)
- Excellence in Advocacy Award (Women in Government Relations - Washington, DC)
- Excellence in Public Relations/Golden Trumpet Award (Publicity Club of Chicago)
- Edwin J. O'Shaughnessy Quality of Life Award recognizing the foremost contribution to improving quality of life in our society through public relations (Publicity Club of Chicago)
Example of our Work
Winning Referendum Campaign
K.O. Strategies directed strategy and communications for the 1/2 Cent for Mental Health campaign in Winnebago County, IL. The referendum determined whether the county could issue a 1/2 cent sales tax to fund behavioral health.
The campaign won by a commanding 24-point margin, 62%-38%. The tax will generate $12-13 million annually in local funding for mental health and substance abuse services. K.O. Strategies won national and regional awards for excellence in advocacy and public relations for this campaign.
Representative Clients
We have served a wide array of clients, from
Nielsen to Notre Dame Law School, from Rosecrance Health Network to the Illinois Commerce Commission, from the the largest Girl Scout affiliate in the country to Country Financial.
We can help you too.
For more than 25 years, our team has worked with corporations, hospitals and healthcare systems, nonprofits, associations, universities and high schools, government entities, companies, campaigns, U.S. Senators, lawyers, and real estate developers to help them achieve their goals.
Our Team
Kate O'Malley - Founder & CEO
O'Malley has 30 years' experience consulting with clients to help them achieve their strategic communications, public affairs, and advocacy goals. She is a lawyer, strategist, communicator, lobbyist, and facilitator who has served as policy advisor and speechwriter to a U.S. Senator, adjunct faculty at Notre Dame's business school, advocacy director for an international nonprofit, and marketing/communications associate for a large corporation.
Experienced, Creative & Agile
Our talented and diverse team is creative, passionate, and
committed to excellence.
We bring to bear more than 100 years of experience in communications, lobbying, strategy, media, social media, reputation management, public affairs, strategic planning, and multicultural public relations.
Our team includes highly-regarded and proven communicators,
strategists, and lobbyists.