Bully Pulpit International

🚀 BPI keeps growing — we’re excited to introduce two new UK members of the BPI Group: Seven Hills BPI and Message House! With the addition of these UK firms, Europe is home to a third of our team and London is our second largest market. These two award-winning firms strengthen our ability to support the world’s most influential organizations and leaders at a crucial moment for our global community. From AI to privacy, antitrust, trade, the green transition, global security, and more, the major issues of the next decade increasingly extend across national borders. Message House will join BPI’s Insights team, combining our strengths to offer a powerful policy and decision maker research capability across the US, Europe, and beyond. Seven Hills builds campaigns for change makers, helping strengthen platforms and establish leading positions on the major challenges of today. Together with BOLDT BPI, they will help drive our growth in the UK. 🎙️ Can’t wait to get to work making change possible together! Learn more about our new colleagues and capabilities via PRovoke Media: https://lnkd.in/egvsTFqC

🌟 As first seen in POLITICO California Playbook, we’re ending the year with growth on the west coast — we’re excited to officially welcome Aaron McLear to the BPI team! Joining us from Seattle, Aaron brings more than twenty years of experience, including senior roles at category-defining tech companies like Uber and Cruise and time advising iconic multinational brands. His in-depth knowledge of the policy landscape up and down the west coast will bolster BPI’s nearly decade-long presence in the region. The world’s top leaders and businesses are facing a uniquely dynamic environment for enterprise, dealmaking, and regulatory action — and Aaron’s expertise will strengthen our ability to help them drive change. Join us in welcoming him to the team!

BIGGER ✊ BETTER ✊ BOLDER ✊ In 2024, we went from strength to strength, and we’re not ready to stop anytime soon.   This year… • we produced some of our most innovative campaigning work, for some of the largest multinationals in the world, and we were named EMEA Corporate Affairs Consultancy of the Year by PRovoke Media.   • we became a group of 325 passionate individuals, and with it, we became BOLDT BPI.🎙️ • we celebrated more than any other year since Jeremy Galbraith, Morten Pettersen, and Matthias Graf founded BOLDT at the end of 2017. So as a thank you from all 325 of us, our Managing Partner Jeremy would like to say: “What an amazing year. We have helped countless clients win on their most challenging issues with truly BOLDT campaigns across Europe. Being part of the global Bully Pulpit International Group has continued to help us transform and grow our business and offer our clients and team more. Bring on 2025!”. #publicaffairs #communications #corporatecommunications #merrychristmas #happyholidays

An incredible week with an incredible team celebrating all the hard work and wonderful people who got us to where we are today — and looking ahead to all there is to learn in the next 15! 🎉

🎉Thrilled to be a finalist for PRWeek’s inaugural Outstanding Public Affairs Agency! We’re proud to help drive change every day: navigating the biggest issues and headlines of the day, shaping the future of policy nationally + locally, and demonstrating community impact. The challenges of the next decade cannot be solved alone — they require both government and business — and matter to more stakeholders than ever. As leaders, brands, philanthropies, advocacy groups, and more seek to lead through today’s landscape, we’re grateful to help them make change possible. Of course, none of this would be possible without our best-in-class team and our incredible clients who trust us to do the work that matters! 🎙

It’s been a year since we changed our name to Bully Pulpit International and expanded into Europe. Our European team is now 111 strong across 5 countries and growing. It was a pleasure to mark the year and celebrate with all of you this week in London and Brussels. Thank you for hosting us! The thesis was always that the issues that will shape the next decade do not stop at a national border. We are in a moment of change. We saw it in every national election. And we see it in technology, media, energy, and geopolitics. The question our clients are asking is how do lead through moments of change – not be consumed by it. I heard this in every conversation from Parliament to board rooms. Building multinational teams is hard. But after seeing everyone this week, I couldn’t be more excited for the year ahead. Thank you all for helping make change possible. Seven Hills BPI BOLDT BPI Message House BPI

💬 Gen Z has entered the chat — and they’re bringing a new relationship to work. Despite their reputation in the workforce, Gen Z shares similar values to their generational counterparts: ⏫ 82% of Gen Z respondents believe it is important to go above and beyond your job description to get ahead, compared to 82% of Millennials and 83% of Gen X. 🏆 The workforce’s youngest cohort have an intrinsic drive to work hard — 4 in 5 say it is important to go above and beyond your job description to feel like you have done your best. So what’s different? Even though Gen Z sees work as just as important to their identity as Millennials and Gen X, they place more importance on other elements of their identity outside of work than other generations. 💡 Because work is a smaller share of their core identity, Gen Z has higher expectations that compensation matches their effort. To engage and keep the newest members of the workforce, speak the language of rewarding their hard work.

🎉 BPI is proud to again be part of the PRNEWS Agency Elite Top 120! 2024 has been filled with change – and next year will be no different. We’ve expanded our reach across the Atlantic, adding BOLDT BPI, Seven Hills BPI, and Message House BPI over the last year. From navigating policy to demonstrating real impact on communities both locally and globally, we’re proud to build a bully pulpit for the world’s top organizations and leaders. Honored to be included among such a tremendous group of our peers. Thank you to PRNews, our wonderful clients, and our entire international team, who continue to make change possible. Now more than 300 strong, we’re excited to keep making change possible together in 2025 and beyond! 

🎙️ Bradley Akubuiro is on the mic with Michael Hayman MBE DL for the latest episode of Seven Hills BPI's Change Makers podcast to discuss leadership, trust, and change. You won't want to miss it! Be sure to check out the Change Makers archive for even more conversations with global leaders making change possible — and stay tuned for episodes co-hosted by Bradley coming soon.

How are brands preparing for the Trump Administration? Thanks to PRWeek for including some of my thoughts: "We’ve been in this divisive moment for some time, so most brands are actually well prepared. Outside of politics, 51% support doesn’t mean victory – it means total failure. Smart brands are seeking to find areas where they can lead change by galvanizing supermajority support. Fortunately, there is still plenty Americans agree on, so long as it’s in a non-political context. Who doesn’t want an America that is more competitive, offers greater opportunity, grows local jobs, invests in US manufacturing, supports our veterans, prioritizes skills-first hiring and, of course, values freedom?" "As the nature of influence changes, leaders are looking to expand on what’s authentic for them and bring these narratives to life for new audiences and increasingly in emerging cultural centers. From sports to podcasts, gaming, and niche communities, there’s a greater recognition of what media is actually being consumed. In 2025 brands need not abandon who they are. But they must realize that culture sits upstream of policy.” https://lnkd.in/e5HeQFaM