Firm Profile

Forward-thinking and innovative, Strategic Social emphasizes the importance of cultural understanding to inform and tailor our team’s advice, strategies and engagements. We gain understanding in complex environments through local insight, then deliver strategies and solutions that help our clients succeed. In every respect, we seek to create enduring outcomes.

Strategic Social has successfully provided on-the-ground capabilities in some of the world’s most difficult-to-access areas since 2003. With active work on five continents and permanent staff and offices in Washington D.C., Silicon Valley, Baghdad, Kabul, Basra, Kandahar and North Africa, we are uniquely positioned to provide rapid, productive services across a full range capabilities, including communication and cultural engagement, capacity building, enterprise solutions and social science research.

Our team understands and is equipped to meet the demands of expeditionary operations.  Our core corporate capabilities cover the spectrum of soft power; they include:

• Technology Infrastructure: Strategic Social is a leader in providing state of the art technology, consulting, and program management expertise. Our project teams are built from international subject matter experts and, local national employees in every country in which we operate. Strategic Social helps companies and government agencies optimize their organizational performance, protect their citizenry and critical infrastructure, integrate complex technology solutions, and develop innovative solutions to achieve enduring success. Learn more >>
• Communication & Engagement: With our full-scale media production facilities, Strategic Social clients have access to the full range of locally informed communication strategies, media engagement planning, production and distribution services. Our cultural engagement and communication experts help our clients build productive relationships, communicate effectively and affect what’s next. Learn more >>
• Capacity Building: Humanitarian and other governmental responses span a wide range of operations from diplomacy to combat, aid delivery to temporary shelter.  Strategic Social delivers a full range of services to help create stability and build strategic depth. Learn more >>
• Socio-Cultural Research: The Strategic Social team boasts some of the brightest minds in social research. Our highly educated, experienced team provides clients with a uniquely holistic view of audiences, cultures and issues—then leverages this vantage point to deliver success. Learn more >>

In each case, our capabilities are enabled by industry-best technology solutions. With offices in Silicon Valley and access to some of the world’s top software and database developers, we offer our customers modular and deployable IT services anywhere in the world. Additionally, our specialized user interface tools spark collaboration while delivering easy access to valuable data and analysis.