AWL Strategies is a DC-based women-owned small business (WOSB) founded in 2019 that provides change management, communications, branding, and marketing strategies to innovative, future-focused leaders. Our mission is to provide great business outcomes through purpose-driven communications. AWL Strategies holds certifications in Digital Communications and Marketing, Crisis Communications, and is 100% Prosci Change Management Certified. We have extensive experience helping organizations through transformational change and modernization and we bring tested and proven experience from first-hand implementations to accelerate lasting success.
Across our work, the AWL team puts people at the center of every strategy with purpose-driven change and communications for public good. We bring decades of experience leading complex change programs in industry and public sector to help our clients simplify their approach, focus on what matters, and accelerate results. The AWL team lives by our values: honesty, service, inclusion, tenacity, goodness, and humor.
AWL is an award-winning communications firm. In 2021, AWL was named to the Forbes Next 1000, a list of upstart companies redefining the American dream, was a recipient of the 2021 US Women’s Chamber of Commerce Emerging Star Award for Outstanding Growth and Achievement in Federal Contracting, and a 2021 PR Daily Award Finalist for Website Design and Social Media. In 2022, AWL was a Gartner Communications Excellence Award Finalist, awarded Ragan PR Daily’s Top Women in Communications for Mentoring, honored as an Inc. “Best in Business” company, received a Real Leaders Impact Award, and was featured on the GrowthLab list of Top 100 Federal Communications and Marketing Firms. AWL is a member of the Forbes Business Council, Fast Company Executive Board, Digital WOSB Alliance Board Chair for Government Relations, and the Digital Services Coalition.
AWL provides pro bono communications and marketing support and mentorship to individuals and teams and donates 5% of all profits to local, national, and global organizations that support women's access, equality and leadership.
At AWL we look for business partners who share our values and our belief that shared leadership creates strength. We take a one team approach to bring the best solutions to our clients, and look for like-minded partners who are ready to roll up their sleeves along side us to get the job done - and have fun doing it!
