Your company’s public face needs to be consistent and strong across every platform—whether in the media, at events, or with the community. Having one agency handle all your strategic communications ensures a clear and cohesive voice, maximizing impact across all target audiences. Let us build the story of your brand, driving consistent, compelling communication at every turn.
Media relations builds strong connections with the press to effectively share your story and enhance brand visibility.
Public relations shapes and maintains a positive image for your brand, fostering trust and engagement with key audiences.
Government relations helps navigate policy landscapes and build strategic partnerships to influence decisions and drive business success.
Community relations fosters strong ties with local stakeholders to build trust, support, and positive brand recognition within the community.
Reputation management protects and enhances your brand’s image by proactively addressing issues and promoting positive perceptions.
Crisis management helps mitigate damage and protect your brand’s reputation by responding swiftly and strategically to unforeseen challenges.
Media training prepares you to confidently engage with the press, ensuring your message is delivered clearly and effectively.
Forward Energy Public Relations is led by Joe Brettell. You work with a senior advisor from day one, bringing experienced judgment, steady leadership, and a national network shaped across policy, energy, and technology. We start by getting clear on what matters most, what success looks like, and what the moment requires.
Then we build a bespoke team around your needs. That might mean a tight, focused engagement with Joe at the center, or a scaled team that brings in specialized support for social media, grassroots, public affairs, or rapid response. The model is modular by design, scaling up or down as the work evolves. This provides an exceptional value for your investment, without having to pay for overhead or junior team members unfamiliar with the industry.
A senior-level diagnostic delivered in one day that gives leadership decision clarity. We identify where your narrative is breaking, why it is breaking, which risks are being underestimated, and the strategic paths available. You leave with an actionable point of view on what to do next, grounded in real stakeholder dynamics and market intelligence.
We map the key drivers shaping interpretation, identify gaps and misreads, and clarify what is actually causing confusion, skepticism, or resistance.
We pressure-test your posture against likely critics, stakeholder concerns, and decision-maker constraints so you can act early and avoid costly surprises.
You get clear paths forward with tradeoffs, recommendations, and a prioritized next-step plan your team can execute immediately.
A focused, senior-led engagement to move one high-stakes priority forward in a single quarter. We align on the outcome, define the narrative that will hold up under scrutiny, and execute a targeted plan across media, stakeholders, and leadership communications.
We get crisp on what success looks like, who has influence over it, and what they need to hear in order to support it, approve it, or stop opposing it.
We develop the core story, proof points, and messaging system, then translate it into a plan for channels, messengers, and stakeholder moments across the next 90 days.
We support outreach, content, leader prep, and rapid response as needed, tracking what is landing and refining as conditions change so your team stays credible and on offense.
A senior communications partner for organizations that need steady guidance as priorities evolve quarter by quarter. We keep leadership, messaging, and stakeholder strategy aligned, anticipate pressure points, and provide fast counsel when issues emerge. The result is consistency over time and readiness for the moments that matter.
We help your team maintain a coherent narrative across initiatives, prevent internal drift, and keep communications tied to business objectives.
From stakeholder flare-ups to breaking news, we provide rapid senior counsel and practical next steps so small issues do not become defining stories.
The model is modular by design, with a predictable rhythm and the ability to add focused execution, specialist support, or extra bandwidth when needed.
We typically price engagements as a retainer or a fixed scope tied to outcomes and deliverables, not hourly billing. That keeps incentives aligned and makes budgeting predictable. If a situation requires true rapid response, we can structure an emergency scope with clear terms.
Both. Clients work with us through a one-day Narrative Communications Diagnostic, a 90 Day Project Sprint, or Ongoing Strategic Support. We will recommend the lightest engagement that fits the moment.
No. Forward Energy Public Relations is senior-led. You work directly with Joe Brettell, and when we build a team around your needs, Joe stays involved and accountable throughout.
We build a bespoke team that matches your objective and the moment. That means you get the right expertise when you need it, without being locked into a permanent roster or layers of junior staffing. The team can scale up or down as priorities change.
We are a fit for organizations operating at the intersection of energy, technology, and policy, especially when there is real stakeholder consequence. That includes energy and infrastructure developers, utilities, and grid-adjacent players, tech and data infrastructure teams, and organizations facing public scrutiny or complex stakeholder environments.
High-stakes moments where communications affect outcomes, including stakeholder and community support, media scrutiny, leadership visibility, narrative resets, crisis and issues response, and public affairs communications tied to approvals or policy risk.
We work across the United States and can support select international needs depending on the project and stakeholder environment. We are based in Houston and work wherever the decision and the audience are.
Both. The Diagnostic is designed to deliver decision clarity quickly. The 90 Day Sprint and Ongoing Support can include strategy plus execution, including media support, leadership prep, stakeholder engagement communications, and rapid response. Scope is tailored to what will move the outcome.
For time-sensitive situations, we can often begin with the Diagnostic within days, depending on scheduling and the availability of key stakeholders for interviews and working sessions. For ongoing work, we typically start with a short kickoff and a first 30-day plan.
We are a strategic communications partner. Our work often touches PR, public affairs communications, stakeholder engagement, and leadership communications. When lobbying or legal strategy is involved, we coordinate with your internal team and external counsel, and we stay in our lane with communications.
