People believe in truth, but follow stories, and whoever controls the story leads the way.
Morgan Howard Communications is a strategic communications firm and content studio. We provide a combination of corporate communications, content, and community outreach for Corporations, non-profits, government entities and Tribes.
Three ways we work
Our Services
Strategic Communications
We help organizations clarify their core story and share it with the people who matter most, through media, digital, social and other channels, so they build trust, strengthen their reputation and protect it from risk.
What this covers →Community Outreach
Shareholder halls, hearing rooms, village meetings. Engagement designed so people leave feeling heard, respected and informed.
What this covers →Story Studio
Film, documentary, video and editorial. Thirty years of finding the emotional center of an institutional story and putting it on a screen.
What this covers →How I think about this work
Storytelling for Community success
The story structure of the Hero’s Journey is deeply ingrained in our DNA.
What changed
If in doubt, over-communicate. Customers, employees, investors, and now AI systems are constantly trying to make sense of incomplete and convoluted information.
We turn this complexity into understanding so your stakeholders, customers and members can make better decisions, and you can build stronger relationships.
Information tells you what happened. Story tells people why it matters.
That is the work I do. My clients are mission-driven institutions, including Alaska Native corporations, Tribal enterprises, and companies working in sustainable resource industries and economic development. The job is to take a complicated situation and turn it into something employees, shareholders and communities can follow.
Anyone can generate content now. What is scarce is the ability to tell the truth so that people believe it.
I have spent my career doing just this.
Who I work with
ANCs & Tribes
The dual obligation to shareholders and to culture. ANCSA, land, enrollment, elders, and boards drawn from the community.
Read more →Nonprofits & Foundations
Complex constituencies, constrained budgets, and a mission that has to survive contact with both.
Read more →Public agencies & Land owners
Testimony, public process, and the difference between public relations and public trust.
Read more →In other people’s words
I know Morgan Howard both as a consummate professional in his field and as a Tlingit tribal brother. He brings honor and knowledge, conveyed with respect and spirituality, to both relationships. I look to him as a leader and a skilled professional who will bring out the best that is sought by any client.
Byron Mallott, former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska and Alaska Native leader
Morgan Howard consistently delivers a first-rate product not only because of the technical skill and professionalism he brings to each job, but more importantly because he has a keen sense for identifying and capturing the things that matter most to people.
Joe Nelson, J.D., AFN Co-chair and Alaska Native leader
Speaking
Morgan speaks on trust, story and Indigenous leadership
Keynotes, board sessions, panels and workshops for conferences, corporations and tribal organizations. The talks are built on the same frameworks that run through the work.
Clients
We’ve serviced most of our clients for many years; our longest relationship spans more than 30 years.
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I would love to help you out, even if you don’t retain our services. Just call, email or text.