Competences

Long-standing experience and a systematic approach to communications. For your projects in the private and the public sector.

We expand your strategic options and enforce your legitimate interests – in multi-stakeholder dialogue, in handling crises, in building acceptance for disputed projects, during takeovers or restructuring processes, or in dealing with technological change. We tailor our strategy to your particular needs and set up result-oriented processes. In relation to your organisation’s important stakeholders, we enhance your share of voice.

We offer deep know-how in various industry sectors, relevant networks, and great expertise in strategic communications and public affairs.

Areas of Expertise and Industry Sectors

Relations capital

Sustainable relations are your most important asset.

Building relevant acceptance for your organisation.
Strategic communications safeguard and increase your relations capital.

Stakeholder acceptance is vital, and sustainable relations with key multipliers are as important as traditional financial indicators, and key to your licence to operate. This is why we focus on improving your relations with stakeholders relevant for your business.

To enforce your legitimate interests and expand your room for manoeuvre, we map your existing stakeholder relations and focus on a result-oriented exchange with your stakeholders. We identify challenges ahead, design roadmaps to further build your organisation’s relations capital, and set up processes and measures to link communications processes with the overall management agenda.

Building relations capital: Communications’ core function

As intangible assets, sound stakeholder relations are essential for an organisation’s success, potential impact and influence. Our counsel allows takes into account a broad range of multipliers’ expectations and demands to create value. Our coients’Bearing in mind our clients’ legitimate interests, our consultancy focuses on improving relations between their stakeholders and our clients and their exchange.

Areas of expertise

Public & stakeholder affairs

Public and stakeholder affairs negotiate the various interests of business, politics and society.

We advise with a long-term view on advancing your legitimate interests and we systematically strengthen your organisation’s profile. This includes assessing the implications of political, societal and economic developments on your organisation. Over the years, we have excelled in public affairs consultancy for a broad range of clients. Our approach is straightforward and effective: building the big picture in terms of our clients’ interests and strategic ambitions, then focusing on key stakeholders and potential partners, and engaging them in a dialogue to build dual-faced insights.

Your contact for public & stakeholder affairs – Thorsten Plath

Transformation & change

Tailored strategies and processes: We navigate our clients’ transformation and change.

Managing your individual transformational needs includes strategic planning, execution and firm control of the entire process. It aims at effective results, broad acceptance and the integration of relevant stakeholders’ views and expectations. In short, we safeguard stability in times of change.

Emphasising internal communication strengthens the buy-in of your teams, builds trust and improves your branding as employer of choice – a major value driver. Reaching out to your teams in a meaningful and consistent way yields positive results.

As this requires the right attitude and exchange between management and staff, we assist by setting up and developing your internal comms – effectively and with a long-term view.

Your contact for transformation & change – Geraldine Schroeder

Mergers & acquisitions

Our industry know-how and strategic strength benefit your M&A projects through support in stakeholder management, operative planning and post-merger integration.

Planning and strategic communications are key to successfully managing transactions. We provide consultancy relating to relevant stakeholders and have, over the years, supported complex takeover and merger projects. The aim is to gain acceptance and sustainable support for transactions and changes. Our credible storylines, sound procedures, reliable networks and experienced teams provide the stakeholder management your M&A project requires – from start to finish.

Your contact for mergers and acquisitions – Geraldine Schroeder

Dialogue & participation

We help shape agendas and establish powerful strategic dialogue on many levels. Our processes take into account those affected by major projects. We support you along the entire process.

Our tried-and-tested framework is acceptance planning. With clear-cut objectives in mind, it sets up a strategic roadmap for outreach to key actors. From your first project phase on, our experienced teams consistently assess acceptance risks and opportunities, therefore adjusting the strategy where needed and building a wealth of helpful content.

Keeping your goals firmly in mind, we employ tailored measures and enhance your credibility and legitimate interests. Integrating what key stakeholders think and expect is key, so we ask: How do they assess the project? What do they expect in terms of participation procedures? How much space do they grant you to continue with your corporate strategy? Stakeholders’ views determine your room to manoeuvre, and so ensuing processes are set up (see also: relations capital).

Your contact for dialogue & participation – Vera Grote

Crisis communication

Preventing and dealing with any crises on behalf of our clients has been part and parcel of JK’s history from the start. Across a range of industries, we have successfully implemented issue and reputation management measures.

Risk assessment, prevention schemes and swift, systematic action with practised teams in case of a crisis: We have, over the years, accumulated considerable know-how in crisis communications. Each crisis is different, so correctly assessing issues constantly updated in the JK Issues Agenda, and swift action regarding relevant stakeholders, are important in gaining the upper hand and protecting your company’s reputation. For organisations of any background and size, we come up with the appropriate strategy. Our teams know the tools of the trade and are experienced in establishing sound procedures. We operate across Germany, with tried-and-tested international partners, and safeguard on-site support 24/7.

Your contact for crisis communication – Thorsten Plath

Industry sectors

Energy

We advise on all pertinent issues including climate protection, digitisation, new business models, technologies and the legal framework of a fast-changing sector.

JK draws on nearly 20 years of experience in advising the energy sector. We assist all energy, mobility and manufacturing companies in managing the complexity of ever-changing stakeholders, such as public utilities, associations, ministries and NGOs, that are seeking to strategically profile their organisations and efficiently protect their legitimate interests.
We are familiar with the intricacies of the regulatory framework of your industry, and relevant decision makers and multipliers. These stakeholders strongly support your corporate success, and their expectations of, and experiences with, your company need to be taken into account.
We find solutions for your specific communications management challenges, and we create and manage your strategic public affairs, restructuring and any transformational needs. We also safeguard and support acceptance for your infrastructure projects and advise in crises, mergers and acquisitions, and other special situations. Operating nationally and internationally, we use a tested network of trusted, independent partner consultancies.

Your contacts for energy – Timo Bovi & Maria Rieb

Mobility & logistics

We provide consulting for the challenges ahead. In mobility, multiple major projects need stakeholder and public affairs management and sound communications procedures.

Mobility’s diverse projects include electrification programmes to meet tightening environmental requirements, innovative schemes mirroring the sector’s increasing competitiveness, newly emerging digital transport services, and an automotive industry under pressure. Whatever your cause, we provide result-oriented consultancy to safeguard your acceptance in important stakeholder groups.

Your contact for mobility and logistics – Maria Rieb

Digital industry

Drawing on consulting for major digital corporations, we support your individual digital agenda. We reduce complexity and reach out to the policy makers, multipliers and societal agents that shape today’s regulatory framework.

In all things digital, we are experienced in advising global corporations, SMEs and political agents. Building on your specific needs and strategic agenda, we establish and enforce dialogue with your key stakeholders that builds your brand, acceptance and long-term licence to operate in a swiftly changing environment.

Your contact for digital industry – Heiko Kretschmer

Health & pharmaceutical industry

Disruptive developments, high-speed digitisation, a powerful yet oscillating political agenda affecting the health and pharma industry: Our consultancy helps you navigate key stakeholders’ expectations and needs.

Many years of experience in consulting agents in the public and private sector have built a wealth of know-how and insight. We use this to gain comparative advantages for your company or raise your share of voice in public and political debates. We are familiar with the opinion leaders in the sector and major stakeholders you need to pay attention to. And we translate know-how into result-oriented and sound procedures and measures, thorough and consistent analysis of risks and opportunities involved, and the potential to form alliances with a long-term view.

Your contact for health and pharmaceutical industry – Heiko Kretschmer

Media & publishing houses

Digitisation has changed everything, with publishers and the media needing to adapt swiftly and profoundly. We give your organisation strategic advice.

Unpredictable developments and totally new professional standards and routines: the challenges for the media sector are substantial. We help you to take reasoned but bold leaps to achieve your strategic objectives, our aim being to support an independent and profitable business facing difficult conditions. We offer procedural know-how and soundly prepare your dialogue with relevant stakeholders, business partners and customers.

Your contact for media and publishing houses – Heiko Kretschmer

Public sector & municipal industry

A well-functioning public sector is the backbone for economy and society alike. We advise government institutions, authorities, parties, trade unions and associations.

With many years’ experience with clients in the public sector, our teams manage strategic communications and draw on relevant networks for any communicative challenge, the set-up and management of complex processes, negotiations and dialogues. Your legitimate interests being firmly in mind, we aim to grow your acceptance and successful outreach at every stage.

Your contact for public sector and municipal industry – Thorsten Plath

Family-owned companies & SME

For family-owned companies and SMEs, many stakeholders is the rule rather than the exception. We build the solid internal and external stakeholder relations and trust your business needs.

Familiar with the wide variety of family-owned and medium-sized companies, our advice aims to enhance your strategic options and to balance value creation, growth and societal and social responsibilities. We help you anticipate changes, define and navigate demands, establish and maintain relevant relationships and meet regulatory challenges – and always in a pragmatic, result-oriented way.

Your contact for family businesses and medium-sized companies – Thorsten Plath