We’re not your typical consultants – parachuting in, spouting jargon and offering templated solutions from some other client’s long-ago problems. We don’t send in junior staffers to do the work because we don’t have any junior staffers.

We listen first. We speak your language. We’ve worked in the trenches. We help you solve problems because we’ve seen so many of them before. And when we haven’t, we know where to find the right solutions. We thrive on figuring out new challenges.

The genesis of all this? It seems that every time Mark Ragan or Jim Ylisela taught a workshop or spoke at a Ragan Communications conference, someone in the audience (often several someones) would ask: “Can you come to my organization and help us with that?” Well, sure.

Mark and Jim got so many of those requests that they decided to create Ragan Consulting Group and invite their friends (who happen to be top consultants in their respective fields) to join them. The result is the brilliant array of communications talent you see here.

Everyone has a story. And every organization is full of them. Stories are the way we convey information, engage our audiences and push for change. At a time when our attention is yanked every which way by texts, email, social media, popups and cat videos, we’ll help you find—and tell—your best story. We believe in storytelling because stories stick.