Corporate and public affairs marketing · Washington, DC & Brussels

I build data‑driven corporate marketing programs that earn trust, shift opinion, and guide smarter decisions.

I'm a corporate marketing strategist helping teams move from gut decisions to evidence‑backed strategy across policy, reputation, and board‑level communications.

Meta, Intuit, IPG · Agency, in-house, and consulting experience.

Who I Am

I'm a corporate marketing strategist for complex, high‑stakes issues.

I work with corporate marketing and public affairs teams who want to make better decisions in complex, high‑stakes environments. I specialize in turning complex data and political realities into clear decisions, using measurement and audience insights to guide public affairs, corporate reputation, and integrated campaigns.

  • Experience in Washington, DC, and Brussels running campaigns that change how policymakers think about tech, finance, and sustainability.
  • Background across agency, in‑house, and consulting roles for tech platforms, financial services, hospitality brands, and global NGOs.
  • Help internal teams make evidence‑driven decisions under scrutiny, clarify ownership, and build trust with audiences and stakeholders.

How I Help

I turn "did this work?" into "what should we do next?"

I work with marketing and public affairs teams to design systems that quantify impact, reveal where to invest next, and align stakeholders around a shared playbook.

  • Build measurement frameworks, evaluation systems, and strategic guidance that connect campaigns to policy and business outcomes.
  • Deliver landscape assessments, funnel strategies, measurement roadmaps, messaging platforms, campaign playbooks, and board‑ready narratives.

Case Studies

Here's how I've helped teams move opinion and drive results.

Examples of using measurement, experiential campaigns, and real-time content to prove impact, drive business results, and change behavior.

Meta Measurement
Building a policy marketing measurement roadmap

Teams relied on sentiment surveys to measure policy campaigns, with no clear view of what actually drove change. I designed a multi‑layered measurement roadmap using brand lift, matched‑market tests, media mix models, and a centralized learning agenda. Result: teams shifted budget into channels with proven incremental lift and started planning campaigns from evidence, not intuition.

Incrementality testing · Media mix modeling · Measurement frameworks

Intuit Corporate reputation
From vanity metrics to trust engine

Public affairs campaigns were optimized for impressions and CTRs with no line of sight to how the team's activities contributed to reputation goals. I reoriented the program by building a comprehensive measurement framework to quantify the impact of corporate marketing efforts, capturing true policy and business impact and measuring our efficiency through cost per point of lift. Result: budget now follows persuasion impact, campaigns are more efficient, and teams make decisions faster with shared evidence.

Brand health · Trust metrics · Impact measurement

UNICEF Real-time content
Owning the conversation on children

At UN General Assembly, UNICEF needed to stand out and keep the focus on children, not abstract goals. I built an onsite real‑time content studio and a distinct visual identity so we could turn small hallway moments into platform‑native stories in hours, not weeks. Result: UNICEF owned about 46 percent of the online conversation about children and SDGs that week and set the model for future high‑level events.

Content marketing · Social media strategy · Creator partnerships

European Container Glass Federation Experiential
Making sustainability playful at checkout

With public concern over ocean plastic reaching a tipping point, I worked with environmental NGOs and glass retailers across five European markets. Leading strategy, measurement, and a multi‑market team, we designed an experiential campaign where custom pop‑up checkouts at supermarkets in several countries triggered animated dolphins that "thanked" shoppers for choosing glass‑packaged items ahead of World Oceans Day. We captured shopper reactions on video, amplified them across social, and ran brand lift studies to test the impact. Result: the campaign drove a 6.6‑point lift in purchase intent in Italy and a 5‑point lift in perceptions of glass as ocean‑friendly packaging in Spain—both far exceeding Facebook's European benchmarks.

Experiential retail · Behavior change · Brand lift

What's on America's Mind Right Now

Issues shaping the national conversation.

Google search interest over the past 12 months at the center of U.S. policy and corporate risk. Updated daily. Source: Google Trends.

Contact

Let's connect.

Let's chat by Zoom, or coffee in DC, or however works best for you.

Email: David@LeavittDC.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidleavitt/