TDS Public Affairs

Navigating Complex
Public Challenges

Strategy, narrative, and execution for organizations navigating public challenges — from emerging issues to full-scale campaigns.

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When the stakes are high, clarity matters.

TDS Public Affairs helps organizations navigate difficult public environments where policy, reputation, and stakeholder relationships intersect.

We help clients clarify strategy, shape narratives, mobilize support, and execute disciplined campaigns that influence outcomes.

Our Capabilities

What We Do

We help clients manage complex public issues, build influence, and shape outcomes.

Strategic Counsel

Trusted counsel for leadership navigating complex public environments — whatever the challenge, whatever the stakes.

Crisis Communications & PR

When an issue goes public, we help organizations respond with clarity — managing media, controlling narrative, and protecting long-term reputation.

Stakeholder Engagement

Building the relationships and coalitions that move decision-makers — identifying who matters, what they need to hear, and how to reach them.

Public Influence Campaigns

Designing and executing coordinated efforts that build support and shape outcomes at scale.

Our Approach

How We Work

Our work begins with strategy. We help clients understand the landscape, define achievable outcomes, and build the right mix of communications, stakeholder engagement, and public influence. From there we execute with discipline, ensuring every action supports the broader strategic objective.

When Clients Call Us

  • An issue becomes public and the stakes are rising
  • A crisis requires immediate communications response
  • Legislative or regulatory decisions threaten long-term interests
  • Press coverage is shaping the narrative and reporters are calling
  • Complex stakeholder environments require coordinated strategy
  • Leadership needs trusted strategic counsel

Practice Areas

Where We Help Clients

  • Policy and legislative strategy
  • Crisis communications and reputation management
  • Media relations and earned PR
  • Tribal sovereignty and Indian Country policy
  • Complex regulatory disputes
  • Coalition-building campaigns
  • Litigation support
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Experience Across
Tribal Leadership Public Sector Advocacy Organizations Corporate Stakeholders Coalition Networks

Perspectives

Latest Insights

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Whether you're navigating an emerging issue or running a full-scale campaign, we're ready to engage.

TDS Public Affairs

About Us

Our Firm

Where governance, culture, and public influence converge.

TDS Public Affairs operates where governance, culture, and public influence converge. Our team brings experience navigating complex political environments, leading legislative strategy, managing crisis communications, and guiding institutions through complex and demanding moments.

We understand both the mechanics of institutional systems and the realities of public perception — and we align the two with precision, integrity, and long-term focus.

Leadership

Our Team

Jim Terry

Jim Terry

President & CEO

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Patty Roe

Patty Roe

Vice President

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Trisha Guenther

Trisha Guenther

Finance

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What We Stand For

Our Values

We believe influence must be ethical, disciplined, and built to endure. In complex public environments, clarity and integrity are not optional — they are essential.

Long-term credibility over short-term visibility

Sustainable influence is built on trust and track record, not noise. We play for the long game.

Strategic depth over volume

Every engagement is shaped by disciplined thinking, not activity for its own sake.

Partnership over transaction

We are invested in our clients' outcomes — and that commitment defines how we work.

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Whether you're navigating an emerging issue or running a full-scale campaign, we're ready to engage.

Our Services

Where Strategy
Comes Together

Policy  |  Strategy  |  Stakeholders  |  Execution

Solutions

High-stakes issues rarely present themselves as isolated challenges.

They sit at the intersection of policy, reputation, and stakeholder dynamics — and require a coordinated, disciplined response.

TDS Public Affairs works with organizations navigating complex public environments where outcomes are shaped not just by decisions, but by how they are understood, communicated, and supported. We bring deep experience in legislative strategy, crisis communications, and media relations.

Our work is grounded in strategy. From there, we help clients bring together the right combination of communications, stakeholder engagement, public influence, and direct PR support to move issues forward.

Engagement Model

How We Engage

We are typically engaged when clarity, credibility, and disciplined execution are most needed — and when the cost of reactive thinking is highest.

In these moments, our role is to help define the path forward and execute with precision.

We are typically engaged when:

  • An issue begins to attract public or political attention
  • Policy or regulatory decisions carry material consequences
  • Multiple stakeholders must be aligned around a common objective
  • Leadership requires clear strategy in a rapidly evolving environment

What We Offer

Core Areas of Work

01

Strategic Counsel

We advise leadership teams navigating complex public environments where policy, reputation, and stakeholder relationships intersect. Our work focuses on clarifying objectives, understanding the landscape, and defining the strategy that guides all subsequent action.

02

Narrative, Communications & PR

Public issues are shaped by how they are understood. We help clients define clear, credible narratives and ensure those narratives are consistently reflected across media relations, stakeholder engagement, and public discussion — including earned media strategy, reporter relationships, and knowing how coverage shapes the environment around a decision.

03

Stakeholder Engagement

Outcomes are rarely determined by a single decision maker. We help clients identify the stakeholders who influence outcomes and engage them in a way that builds credibility, alignment, and momentum.

04

Crisis Communications

When an issue erupts publicly, the first hours matter most. We help organizations respond with discipline — assessing the landscape quickly, defining the right posture, managing media, and protecting institutional credibility through the full arc of a crisis.

05

Legislative Strategy

We help clients navigate the legislative process — from tracking bills and building relationships with key members and staff, to developing testimony, drafting advocacy materials, and coordinating the stakeholder engagement that moves policy forward.

06

Public Influence Campaigns

When issues require broader engagement, we design and execute coordinated efforts that bring together communications, advocacy, and coalition-building — structured to apply pressure at the right moments and in the right places.

How It Comes Together

Shaping Outcomes in Complex Environments

These capabilities are not deployed in isolation. Each engagement is built around a clear strategic objective, with communications, stakeholder engagement, and public influence working together to support that objective. This integrated approach ensures that effort is focused, consistent, and aligned with the outcome being pursued.

Clarity is often the first step toward shaping the right outcome.

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Latest Perspectives

Analysis and insight from our team on public affairs, communications strategy, and the environments where outcomes are shaped.

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Learn What We Do

Strategy, narrative, and execution for organizations navigating public challenges — from emerging issues to full-scale campaigns.

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If your organization requires disciplined public affairs strategy and measured influence, we invite you to begin the conversation.

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