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Is "improving your communication skills" one of your development goals for 2023? Every time you speak or deliver a presentation, you are auditioning for leadership.  How are your auditions received?  Does your new position require you to deliver presentations to more internal and external audiences?  Are you tired of being "interesting" and want to be inspirational and persuasive on the platform?
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Meet Our Team

Meet Our Team

We believe in client collaboration as we jointly diagnose and then prescribe appropriate interventions, training delivery options, and transfer of skills to the client. 

Amy Showalter NRF Restored

Meet Amy

Amy is a grassroots and PAC influence expert who founded The Showalter Group to help associations and corporations increase their grassroots and PAC effectiveness. In fact, over 85% of her long term consulting clients have experienced an increase in budget, staff, and senior management recognition after collaborating with Amy.

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Our Approach

Our client results indicate that improved grassroots and PAC performance comes from investment in the application of scientific influence principles, standardized administration and management procedures, organizational support structures, and motivated staff and advocates.

About TSG

In 1999, a valuable resource became available to organizations that want to expand their PAC and grassroots influence when Amy Showalter left the highly esteemed Nationwide Civic Action Program to establish The Showalter Group, Inc.

Our clients include major corporations such as International Paper, Pfizer, and Monsanto, and national trade associations such as the National Restaurant Association, the American Bankers Association and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. Major non-profits that we have collaborated with include the American Heart Association’s Office of Public Advocacy, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and the United States Green Building Council. State trade associations that have hired The Showalter Group for consulting projects include the California Healthcare Association, the Pennsylvania Banker’s Association, the Ohio Inter-University Council, and numerous state REALTOR® associations.

We believe in client collaboration as we jointly diagnose and then prescribe appropriate interventions, training delivery options, and transfer of skills to the client. Our approaches revolve around research methodologies that help create sustainable PAC, grassroots, and lobbying improvements which serve the organization for the long-term, rather than ad hoc grassroots, PAC and lobbying campaigns.

Our client results indicate that improved grassroots and PAC performance comes from investment in the application of scientific influence principles, standardized administration and management procedures, organizational support structures, and motivated staff and advocates.

Amyism #86

Consistency

“Despite declarations to the contrary, no dramatic PAC or advocacy program transformation happens with one tactic.. When building an influential advocacy program or large PAC, there is no single event, no grand video, no solitary viral tweet, no “killer app,” no single meeting that transforms your program.. Rather, it occurs through consistent thinking, testing and honest evaluation.. That consistency produces momentum that leads to transformation.”

Amyism #66

PAC Objections

“Questions or challenges and even sometimes hostility about your PAC are signs of interest. Prepare for the objections. when you hear only the crickets, then you know you’re in trouble.”

Amyism #11

Motivation

“People will come to your for the cause, and stay for the leader.”

Amyism #15

Grassroots Members as Customers

“Please stop referring to your employees and association members in combative terms such as “targets” or “segments”. How about simply customers?”

Amyism #44

Motivating Key Contacts

“The most common mistake in motivating key contact is thinking that they are similar to the general public, and treating them that way.”

Amyism #4

Grassroots Results “If you want to have something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”

Amyism #75

Empowering PAC Recruiters

“Your PAC recruiters are asking people for personal money, for a political cause, with no immediate results. That’s why they must become proficient persuaders and master motivators. You can’t achieve that by giving them a slide deck of PAC ‘do’s and don’ts’.”

Amyism #36

Government Relations Value “When you relentlessly tout only what your new technology does instead of your insights and strategies, you instantly and unwittingly devalue your contributions to your organization.”

Amyism #39

Recognition

“The notion of relying solely on scheduled formal recognition is flawed and leads to missed opporutnities to increase grassroots and PAD productivity. It is more important what you do 365 days a year in the informal recognition moments, rather than the extravaganza-laden events, plaques, and other ceremonies.”

Amyism #63

PAC Objections

“There are no new PAC objections known to mankind. the crime is not in the objection, but in us not being prepared to rebut them.”

Get In Touch

Get In Touch

Address

The Showalter Group, Inc.
4030 Smith Road
Suite 200
Cincinnati, OH 45209

Phone

513.762.7668

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