Change the World

 

  • Facilitation & Strategic Planning

    Is your organization having trouble getting on the same strategic page? OBG can help you by facilitating groundbreaking and problem-solving conversations. With more than 25 years’ experience in non-profit leadership, OBG can advise on Program Planning and Design, Budget, Financial Management, Operation and Stakeholder Engagement, Project Management, and Thought Leadership. OBG is a trusted partner who helps bring more light than heat to sensitive internal and strategic planning conversations.

  • Strategic Communications

    You want to be understood and for others to understand. OBG has the methodology, experience, and proven track record to help you get your message across in a persuasive, convincing, and attention-grabbing way. OBG creates high-visibility, compelling campaigns, across a multitude of platforms, to mobilize supporters and engage policymakers. OBG takes the toughest of issues and work with clients to create a pathway to success and goal achievement.

  • Message Development

    What do you say when you have a difficult truth to tell or a hard-to-hear message to get across? OBG can help you hone what you want to say and craft how it is best delivered, so you can be heard and understood, and go on to win both hearts and minds. OBG has more than 25 years of experience across 6 continents, advocating some of the toughest questions on radio, TV, and digital media.

  • Media & Spokesperson Training

    Any media trainer can tell you how to sit for a camera or what color shirt to avoid. Working with an experienced team of moviemakers and television producers OBG does something different: we take a participant's biggest fears and the most difficult scenarios in the sector they work to produce a bespoke training experience grounded in the practice of substantive response to questions about the specific subject matter that is your business.

  • Issues and Advocacy Management

    Working out what to say and how to say it is critical, but even more important is the question of what you believe and why do you believe it. This workshop is exclusively tailored to your very precise company needs. In the workshop, you’ll experience a fast-paced, engaging, highly-participatory discourse in which every aspect of the issue at hand is interrogated and examined. It is a space in which fears, hopes, convictions, and doubts are surfaced and turned inside out as each individual strives to grasp a better understanding of their truth through reasoned argument, discussion, and reflection in a group setting.

  • Advertising Campaigns

    O’Brien Global can create compelling stories that speak to your organization’s values—that tell stories of people and issues that just can't be ignored. We have created award-winning global campaigns across four continents, as well as a local state-based strategy in the USA. We work with the best photographers and talented designers to bring your stories to life.

  • "The media communications workshop Jon O’Brien led was highly valuable for those of us participating. Fifteen years later, I still benefit from what I learned."

    — Karen Hoen, consultant (Belgium)

  • "Jon’s training and mentoring made us more focused in our campaign and more confident in our messaging. These are skills that we still use to this day even after he helped us pass the Reproductive Health Law.”

    
— Ms. Chi Laigo Vallido, co-founder/managing partner of Women Writing Women (The Phillipines)

  •  "Jon’s vision, intelligence, clarity, quiet determination, and communication skills all add to the value he can bring to removing roadblocks and charting a courageous path forward. I recommend him to you.”

    — Ann Brassil, adjunct professor and CEO of Family Planning NSW (Australia)

  • "His extensive knowledge of cultural and religious issues, his understanding of the challenges of development, ability to communicate with ease what seem to be highly complex issues are qualities that I have always admired in him."

    — Sahlu Haile, former head of the Packard Foundation in Africa (Ethiopia)

  • "As a result of his support, most of our organizations have conducted successful advocacy to support the Ministry of Health and develop policies and guidelines in support of women’s health in Kenya. We highly rate Jon’s professional approach to Communications and Advocacy Training and we recommend him to any potential client."

    — Dr. John Nyamu, executive director of Reproductive and Maternal Health Consortium (Kenya)