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Hill & Knowlton
Communicate to lead
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Hill & Knowlton is a strategic and creative partner to drive breakthrough opportunities for growth and value creation, advance corporate strategy, and build reputation capital and resiliency. We’re a proven partner for business and brand transformation.

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1,001-5,000

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Consulting

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Africa, Asia, Europe, Latam, Middle East, North America, Oceania

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Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States Of America

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About Us

The Original Strategic Communications Consultancy

Hill & Knowlton has been at the forefront of strategic communications longer than anyone. As part of Burson Group and WPP — the creative transformation company — we sit at an unmatched intersection of global reach, sector depth, and integrated capability. With offices in Toronto, Amsterdam, and New York, we bring together diverse perspectives, cutting-edge intelligence, and executional agility to serve clients wherever opportunity and complexity converge. We integrate capabilities at the speed of business, transforming outcomes by helping leaders communicate to lead.

Who we are

Different by Design

We are strategic advisors, creative thinkers, public affairs specialists, and intelligence practitioners — united by a shared conviction that great communication starts with listening. Our teams blend art and science, blending earned media expertise with data-driven insight, behavioral science, and bold creative strategy. Passionate problem-solvers by nature, we are fully invested partners to every client we serve: listening deeply, advising honestly, and acting decisively. We don't just consult — we travel alongside our clients as seasoned fellow travelers through today's most complex terrain.

What we do

Expertise Redefined to Meet the Challenge of Change

Hill & Knowlton delivers a suite of integrated solutions built around five core areas of expertise. Through Strategic Communications, we blend art and science to build purpose-driven campaigns that engage stakeholders across owned, earned, and shared media. Through Public Affairs, we help clients engage policy and regulatory environments using data and analytics, behavioral science, and digital engagement to shape public opinion. Our Advisory practice mobilizes business strategy, solves complex issues, and creates sustainable value by situating challenges in their full economic, political, and geopolitical context. Intelligence & Technology cuts through information overload — uncovering audience insights, monitoring disinformation, tracking reputational risk, and delivering predictive analysis at the pace today's landscape demands. And through Innovation & Creative, we redefine how creativity solves client challenges, bringing together creative strategy, content, digital, and data disciplines into something genuinely new.

Our Purpose

Built for Purpose to Address Today's Grand Challenges

We exist to expand possibility and success for the organizations we serve. In an era of breathtaking change and disruption, we believe that communication is not a support function — it is the engine of leadership. Our purpose is to help brands, businesses, and their leaders navigate the world's most pressing challenges and significant opportunities, transforming complexity into competitive advantage and building the kind of reputation that endures. We are here to reinvent how it's done.

Our Values

What It Means to Be Part of H&K

We believe creativity unlocks brilliance — and so we hold ourselves to the highest standards in all ways, designing business-moving, world-changing solutions that turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. We ask 'why?' as inspiration to invent the 'how,' approaching every challenge as lifelong learners who know that roadblocks are simply detours to bigger thinking. We thrive on achieving greatness as a team, holding ourselves collectively accountable and understanding that the diversity of individual expertise ignites the most game-changing collaboration. And above all, we are passionate problem-solvers: partners to our clients, turning complexity into opportunity with honesty, decisiveness, and genuine investment in their success.

Why working with us

Your Partner in Expanding Possibility

Clients choose Hill & Knowlton because we are different by design. Our integrated suite of capabilities — spanning strategic communications, public affairs, advisory, intelligence, and creative — means we never offer a single-lens answer to a multi-dimensional challenge. We bring the scale of a global network and the precision of a hand-selected team, combining proprietary technology, cutting-edge data tools, and the senior expertise needed to give you clarity and confidence in the moments that matter most. As part of Burson Group and WPP, we also provide access to the world's most sophisticated AI services for communications, alongside tools for reputation tracking, predictive analysis, audience engagement, and generative engine optimization. When you work with H&K, you gain a partner who integrates at the speed of your business — not ours.

Inclusion & Diversity

Representation Matters, Here and in Every Room

We are proud to be a diverse community of communicators with global reach, and we bring that commitment to diversity and inclusion into the forefront of our work — not as a footnote, but as a foundation. We believe that representation matters, that all perspectives are relevant, and that the richness of our collective differences is precisely what makes our thinking sharper, our strategies stronger, and our culture worth being part of. Global in nature, we strive to reflect the full range of stakeholder experience in everything we do — because the world we help our clients communicate in is wonderfully, irreducibly complex.