Mattie Duppler
Public affairs strategy · Founded by Mattie Duppler
Not having a Washington strategy is still a strategy.
Forward Strategies builds a company's public affairs operation before the fight arrives. Founded by Mattie Duppler, who built the Amazon operation that defeated the biggest antitrust bill in a generation.
On air and on the record
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Bring in Forward Strategies.
For the head of policy, corporate affairs or the GC who can see a policy fight coming and knows the company isn't built for it yet. It starts with an Audit, and the firm takes two a quarter.
How the Audit works
Book Mattie to speak.
Keynotes and firesides on what Washington is about to do to your industry, your portfolio and your household, in plain English, down to the number that shows up in your budget.
Speaking topics
Subscribe to The Tradeoff.
Mattie's weekly podcast takes the economic headline everyone is talking about and tells you what it costs you, in under 15 minutes.
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If you don't have these three things before your next policy fight, give us a call.
- 01.
Decision rights drawn on paper.
Who signs off when policy, comms and legal disagree, decided before the reporter calls.
- 02.
A tiger team that already meets.
The people who move together in a fight, named, briefed and practiced in peacetime.
- 03.
A compliance layer your board can see.
So the board knows the whole risk picture was considered, not guessed at.
It's a lot more expensive to repeat a mistake than it is to understand how the mistake got made.
Credibility rented during a crisis costs ten times what it costs to build in peacetime.
Apply for an AuditWhy Forward Strategies
Most people in public affairs get one of these seats in a career. Our founder has held all three.
Mattie Duppler has worked for an advocacy organization, held a leadership role in the U.S. House of Representatives, and built the federal public affairs operation inside a Fortune 5 company. So Forward Strategies can write the legislation, explain it to people who will never read it, and run the campaign that gets it passed or stopped.
- The campaign behind the first comprehensive tax reform in 31 years
- Trade Promotion Authority, which led to the first NAFTA revision in 20 years
- The operation that defeated the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. It never reached a floor vote.
On the record
The latest, on camera and in print.
The podcast
The headline is what happened. The tradeoff is what it costs you.
Fast context on how policy and market decisions actually affect you. Every week Mattie takes the headline everyone is arguing about, translates the vocabulary, and shows you which number is actually showing up in your life. Every episode is under 15 minutes.
“That's not a concept problem. It's a vocabulary problem.”