Profile

Public Matters is an agency active in a niche of communications management consulting. Consultants have multidisciplinary expertise and are active in a wide spectrum of sectors. Primary focus: process, strategy and support during implementation. Operating area: The Netherlands and ‘Brussels’. The agency is independent and works closely with an international network of consultants. Motto: target based communications = result based influencing. Core values: knowledgeable, transparent and creative. A pro bono project is supported annually.
Public Matters was founded in 2001 and is strategically located in The Hague, since 2006 at the Bezuidenhoutseweg 101a, across the street of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation. Expertise area's are:

1. Consulting

Deciding how to manage an issue that directly needs attention. Analyze, change and influence an issue. Creatively and flexible agree how to act. With realistic and (internal/external) support and outcome. Defining strategy and leading an effective campaign. Counselor, sounding-board and sparring-partner. Think (strategy) and do (implementation).

2. Organization

How to define public affairs and communications in an organization. Analyze current/desired competences. Develop plan and internal structure. Give (lobby/argumentation) training. Outplace and/or search the right m/f.
 

3. Information

Structurally supply of information based on which a client can make a solid decision. Knowing and anticipating what happens in the world and The Hague. Fast and tailor-made. With an advice what to do to achieve objectives. Exclusively, long term and pro-active. Per email, sms-alert or weekly reports/ analyses. Our client know first what is happening, and more importantly: what to do.