PHILOSOPHY

Longbow Partners is a strategic consulting firm that assists businesses, organizations, and individuals through research, strategy, communications, and advocacy. Longbow is more than a traditional government affairs firm. Our consultants have backgrounds in legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government as well as years of experience in both corporate and trade associations, offering more than 100 years of combined experience to our clients.

The firm’s general philosophy and approach is to provide high value advocacy services and strategic advice to accomplish client legislative or state agency goals. At Longbow, when you work with us you are hiring the entire firm, not just one individual. We put the full resources of the firm to work for your benefit. In addition, the firm’s government affairs representation is anchored in a technical and substantive understanding of the issues, the legislative and administrative processes involved, and the continued maintenance and development of strong relationships with key decision-makers.

Longbow operates at the nexus of innovation and public policy throughout local and state government. Our success is predicated on issue area expertise, political know-how, integrity, and a strong commitment to client satisfaction. From our years of experience in the public and private sectors, we understand how to advocate difficult positions, persuade the right people, build strong coalitions, and get winning results. We’ve helped lead the charge in offering fresh policy solutions to long-standing policy challenges. We’ve navigated our clients through contentious legislative hearings and defended them from policies that would be adverse to their businesses. And we’ve never shied away from engaging in complex policy battles. In this dynamically challenging political environment, trust Longbow to successfully guide your government relations or business procurement initiatives and deliver the results you need.

INSPIRATION

The English longbow was a powerful tool of wartime strategy. It was equally useful at long or short range. The longbow’s introduction in the Middle Ages was a technological innovation that changed warfare for centuries. It could be fired faster, had longer range, and devastating accuracy far in excess of any other weapon available in its day. The longbow was one of the primary reasons England was able to establish itself as a world power early in the last millennium.

A classic example of the strength, power, and effectiveness of the longbow was the historic Battle of Agincourt in 1415. There, a vastly superior French army was defeated by King Henry V’s outnumbered English force because of the effectiveness of its archers with their longbows. This battle was made famous by William Shakespeare’s play Henry V.

We started Longbow Partners to bring these strategic qualities of innovation, speed, and accuracy to bear for our clients.