Silver Maple Strategies helps executives and organizations make sense of complexity, communicate with confidence and move important work forward.
We bring particular depth in the fields of agriculture, sustainability, and artificial intelligence.
Our work combines strategic counsel with exceptional interviewing, writing, research and facilitation. The result is communication people can understand, trust and act on.
How We Help
1. Stakeholder Engagement, Research and Facilitation
Understand what the people connected to your work genuinely think—and use that evidence to determine what happens next.
We design and conduct interviews, listening sessions, focus groups and facilitated discussions that surface perspectives your organization needs to understand. Then we identify themes, points of tension and practical implications so leaders can make better-informed decisions.
Our support may include:
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Stakeholder interviews and qualitative research
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Listening sessions and focus groups
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Leadership and staff alignment sessions
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Findings synthesis and strategic recommendations
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Audience, message, and terminology analysis
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Stakeholder insight libraries and reusable research frameworks
2. Executive Communications and Thought Leadership
Turn an executive’s knowledge, judgment, and experience into communication that sounds unmistakably like them.
We help leaders determine what they genuinely want to say, support it with credible evidence, and communicate it clearly. Each engagement is grounded in interviews, strategic counsel, and a careful understanding of the audience.
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Executive communications counsel
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Thought leadership strategy
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Ghostwritten articles and commentary
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Speeches, presentations, and talking points
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Message development for consequential or sensitive subjects
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Executive visibility planning
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Reusable executive point-of-view libraries
3. Editorial Programs and Communication Systems
Build a repeatable framework for producing credible communication and learning what works.
We help organizations move beyond disconnected content assignments by connecting stakeholder evidence, editorial priorities, production workflows, quality standards, and audience insights. The result is a clearer, more sustainable way to decide what should be communicated and to inform how this approach can be improved over time.
Our support may include:
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Editorial strategy and planning
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Interview-led articles and long-form storytelling
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Annual reports and impact reports
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Editorial calendars and workflows
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Message frameworks and content standards
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Post-publication learning reviews
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Communications program development and improvement
4. Facilitation, Training, and Responsible AI Adoption
Help your people think together, make useful decisions and adopt new capabilities without sacrificing trust or judgment.
We design and lead meetings, workshops, and learning programs that turn complexity or disagreement into shared understanding and practical next steps. We also help teams use generative AI responsibly within communications and editorial workflows.
Our support may include:
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Meeting, retreat, and workshop facilitation
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Cross-sector and large-group convenings
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Keynotes and professional development
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Responsible artificial intelligence (AI) training
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Human-review and quality-control standards
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Leadership counsel on AI adoption and organizational change
Communication That Gets Smarter Over Time
We treat research, strategy, and communication as an interconnected strategic system rather than as disconnected assignments.
Our strongest engagements create a continuous learning cycle. To do so, we:
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Listen to as many people and stakeholder groups as needed to get the approach right.
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Synthesize the insights we've captured and connect the dots with our clients.
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Decide what the organization should prioritize.
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Communicate with clarity and credibility.
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Observe questions, reactions, and results.
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Refine the next decision, message, or communication.
This approach helps your organization deliver better outcomes today while building stronger judgment, systems, and institutional knowledge for tomorrow.
Where We Bring the Deepest Experience
Silver Maple Strategies serves businesses, associations, nonprofits, universities and cross-sector partnerships nationwide.
Our deepest experience includes:
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Agriculture and food systems
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Sustainability and conservation
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Regenerative agriculture
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Artificial intelligence
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Education and workforce development
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Media and publishing
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Associations and mission-driven organizations
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Business-to-business communications
Our sector knowledge helps us ask better questions, understand specialized audiences and translate technical subjects without oversimplifying them.
A Specialized Storytelling Service: Perennial Pen
Perennial Pen helps organizations and families preserve the stories that have shaped them through beautifully written corporate histories and family memory books.
Using thoughtful interviews, archival research and narrative storytelling, we transform important memories, milestones and lessons into lasting books that can be shared across generations.
When Silver Maple Strategies Is the Right Partner
We are at our best when:
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Your organization needs to make sense of complicated stakeholder perspectives.
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Your communication carries meaningful reputational, financial, or organizational stakes.
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Executives need evidence, counsel, and outstanding communication—not merely another draft.
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Multiple groups must be heard, aligned, or brought into productive conversation.
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Your editorial work needs a clearer purpose, process, or learning system.
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Your team needs to adopt AI without compromising accuracy, judgment, or trust.
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You need an outside partner who can see the larger system and help determine the next useful step.
Most engagements are custom-scoped around an important decision, stakeholder question, editorial initiative, facilitated conversation, or organizational capacity. Select ongoing advisory relationships are available when continuous learning and counsel would create greater value.
Silver Maple Strategies isn't a high-volume content factory, paid-media agency, outsourced social media team or general-purpose grant-writing firm. When another type of partner would serve you better, we'll tell you up front.
Let’s Talk About the Work in Front of You
If you are navigating a complicated communications challenge, developing an important editorial initiative, convening diverse stakeholders or helping your team use AI responsibly, we love to learn more to determine whether we can serve you.