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Jaime Gardner

Business Development & Communications Director

Jaime Gardner brings a wealth of experience as a small business owner, having run her own firm (High Plains Communications, LLC), occupied high-level government agency and corporate positions, and enjoyed life adventures that inform her professional work and perspective. With a focus on communication and public relations, business administration, internal communication, public outreach, social media coordination, event planning, web content and copy writing, Jaime provides a variety of services and wide range of expertise to our clients.

Gardner has over twenty years of experience working in the public and private sector. For eight years, she was executive director of the Colorado Resource Alliance, a membership-based regulatory monitoring service serving counties, trade associations, individuals and companies interested in natural resource policy. She organized and administered the Front Range Energy Career Expo, a high school energy education and college/career fair event, in 2009 and 2010. She briefly served as executive director of the Houston-based Consumer Energy Education Foundation, providing energy education for middle school and high school students as well as STEM-based scholarship opportunities, in 2013.

Prior to that, Jaime worked in a variety of positions for the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), both in Colorado and Washington, DC. Jaime was a public information officer for BLM in the Colorado State Office, covering issues in recreation, energy, Congressional and state government relations, and law enforcement. During her time in Washington, Jaime managed the Secretary’s Office of Alaska Affairs. Early in her career, Gardner worked as a project manager and ‘troubleshooter’ for Lucent Technologies, both in Denver, CO and Huizen, Netherlands.

As a fourth-generation Coloradan, Jaime grew up in the Denver metro area, graduating from Thornton High School’s International Baccalaureate Program in 1997. Jaime holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Denver, with concentrations in international criminal justice and law and international Security; and minors in economics and Russian language – which she uses almost never today.

A dedicated worker, Jaime loves to take on new and different projects that cover any number of interest areas or industries. Jaime and her husband live in Yuma, Colorado with their three children, and she details life as a busy mom on her website, Juggling Normal.

Fun Fact: Jaime comes from a long line of interesting people. Her sixth great grandfather was Sir Frances Drake, an English explorer, and her great-great grandfather invented the ticker tape that was first used on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Jaime Gardner, a communications expert at Novitas Communications in Colorado.

Issue Management

We monitor emerging trends in your industry, crafting proactive communications strategies capable of addressing changes, regulations or issues that could impact your organization and its stakeholders.

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Digital Media

Our experts in digital media take a forward-looking and data-driven approach to communications, identifying the content, audiences and platforms best suited to catapult your organization’s growth in a digital-first world. From multimedia marketing and web design to digital content production and audience strategy, our team can unlock your organization’s online potential through strategic digital branding and transformation campaigns.

Reputation Management

With our help, you can be sure that your organization’s most important asset – its reputation – is also its greatest strength. With every client, we perform a thorough analysis of their mission, past behavior, and internal and external trust. Our trust analysis capabilities include social media monitoring, public opinion polling, media sweeps, stakeholder surveys, focus groups and more. Together, we craft a narrative that delivers an authentic and purpose-driven picture of your organization’s vision, culture and direction. With our help, your reputation will not only be aligned with your employee base and key stakeholders; you’ll become the most reputationally sound organization in your industry.

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Legislative Communications

Through integrated public affairs campaigns, advocacy communications and coalition building, our experts can ensure that your agenda is shaping the state and country’s leading policy and regulatory debates. We have a bipartisan staff with a long legacy of delivering integrated, multi-channel communications strategies at the national, state, local and grassroots level. With our help, you can be sure that your organization’s legislative agenda is heard – directly and indirectly – throughout the public square.

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Media Relations

At Novitas, we scrutinize the shifting content needs, consumption habits and narrative trends of the news media industry at the local, national and international level. Through years of trial and error, we’ve built strategies to identify the partnerships, platforms and channels that connect organizations to every corner of their target audience. Growing and evolving our approach in real time, we ensure your organization’s message is delivered accurately and widely by the right media partners.

At Novitas, our relationships with reporters are never transactional; they’re collaborative. We’ve cultivated powerful relationships across every news media sector, platform and geographic domain. Whether you’re hoping to grow your brand awareness, position your executives as subject matter experts or overcome critical reputational challenges, our media relations team makes certain you’re positioned to succeed.

Crisis Preparation & Response

We know how damaging sudden and unforeseen crises can be. Our crisis preparations team enables your organization to anticipate emerging risks and implement proactive crisis-mitigation policies. With our expertise, your organization can minimize reputational damage and retain employee trust through any challenging period.

Has a crisis already arrived? Our crisis response team has decades of real-time crisis management experience. With expertise in crisis reporting, impact assessment, integrated response strategies and reputation recovery, we can help your organization navigate even the most complex and challenging circumstances.

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Corporate Communications

We have decades of experience helping companies tell their stories, showcasing their products and services, building compelling narratives, and boosting media, stakeholder and customer engagement. As part of this effort, our team builds executive positioning strategies, ensuring your organization’s leadership communicates their expertise and purpose-driven mission to both your employee base and the general public. With our help, your global reach, expertise and brand identity will reach unimagined new heights.

Strategic Positioning & Market Analysis

Without a thorough market analysis, many organizations build communication strategies around faulty insights, failing to connect with the needs and motivations of their target audiences. With a full suite of research experts, methodologies and platforms, we get to the root of your audience’s priorities, guaranteeing your organization’s messages are always positioned strategically. With our communication strategies, you can be sure your organization and its leadership will stand apart from industry competitors. Together, we can position your executives, product and mission at the top of any target audience’s mind.

Public Outreach

Engaging the public strategically and proactively is essential to unlocking your organization’s reputational potential. Whether you’re hoping to expand your commercial operations or make your voice heard on hot-button issues, a broad public understanding of your organization’s mission and work is essential. Through proactive outreach and awareness programs, broad-based coalition building, education campaigns and digital media, we ensure your organization’s work is at the forefront of the public conversation.

Internal Communications

Over the last few years, organizations in every sector experienced an unprecedented level of disruptive internal change. A compelling and well-organized communications strategy is crucial to effective change management, ensuring your organization’s culture, staff and stakeholders are equipped to adapt confidently and collaboratively. At Novitas, we craft and implement multi-channel strategies designed to optimize your organization’s internal communications, improving employee engagement, workplace efficiency and company culture.

Financial Communications

We provide a suite of multifaceted financial communication services, including investor relations support, strategic messaging for all financial and capital market transactions, financial reputation management and strategic counsel on financial policy and regulation. This includes in-house communications expertise in M&A, divestitures, mergers of equals, hostile defense, initial public offerings and distressed situations.

Social Media & Influencer Marketing

Strategic partnerships with the right social media and brand influencers go a long way toward establishing your products and services’ recognition, credibility and desirability among target audiences. Our data-driven, multi-channel marketing strategies connect your organization with the right platforms and influencers, enabling you to break through a crowded digital landscape with clear and compelling messaging. Regardless of your industry, services or audience, we create campaigns that are measurable, pioneering and built for short-and-long-term success.

Nonprofit Expertise

Today, millions of nonprofits compete for the attention, support and engagement of key audiences. In an evolving marketplace, a strong mission isn’t enough; nonprofits’ messaging must be dynamic, strategic and emotionally compelling. At Novitas, we serve as the bridge between you and your target audience, ensuring the heart of your organization – your work and mission – reaches the audiences and stakeholders that fuel your growth. With our help, you can be sure your brand captures the hearts and minds of every critical stakeholder.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

Today, environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors sit at the heart of every organization’s brand, growth strategy and risk management practices. At Novitas, we won’t just help share your organization’s ESG commitments – we’ll help develop and report on them. With decades of business and brand management, public relations and regulatory expertise, we can help craft ESG strategies that reduce risks, fuel growth, and capture the attention and trust of your key audiences. Our services include ESG reporting and disclosure, ESG research analytics, ESG investor communications, ESG crisis management strategy and ESG public relations.

Litigation Communications

Legal disputes can pose a serious threat to an organization’s reputation, as they are often mired with misinformation, nondisclosure agreements and legal complexities. By partnering with your organization’s litigation team – and thoroughly analyzing your regulatory, corporate, education, human relations and employment practices – we can help you navigate the unique reputational challenges of legal disputes. Together, we will reduce unnecessary exposure, deter negative media, defend your organization’s reputation, and keep key audiences and stakeholders informed.

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