Fractional Executive Leadership
Senior strategic leadership without the cost or commitment of a full-time executive.
Lead • Grow • Navigate
Navigate Complexity.
Navigate Complexity.
Communicate with Confidence.
Many communications consultants are either strategists or executors. Steady Helm is positioned at the intersection of both: strategic enough for the boardroom, experienced enough to know what happens in the field.
What we do
Senior counsel that moves strategy into action.
Steady Helm Consulting provides senior-level strategic communications, public relations, and executive consulting to organizations navigating growth, change, complex issues, and high-stakes communications challenges.
Growth & Organizational Strategy
Business development, practice growth, organizational scaling, M&A integration, and talent strategy.
Strategic Communications & Engagement
Project-level strategy, stakeholder engagement, public relations, media, messaging, and integrated communications.
Areas of expertise
Deep experience for high-stakes challenges.
Nearly three decades of experience leading integrated communications programs, national campaigns, public relations, stakeholder initiatives, media strategy, grassroots engagement, and organizational growth.
Tobacco Control & Public Health
Decades of experience developing and leading behavior-change communications, prevention initiatives, cessation programs, and public education campaigns at the national, state, and community levels.
Government & Public-Sector Initiatives
Strategic counsel and communications leadership for federal, state, quasi-governmental, and mission-driven organizations navigating complex stakeholders, branding, commodity sales, and large-scale initiatives.
Social Impact & Behavior Change
Integrated communications and engagement strategies designed to shift attitudes, influence behavior, mobilize communities, and advance mission-driven causes.
Agency Growth & Transformation
Executive-level guidance for agencies navigating growth, organizational change, new capabilities, talent development, business development, and M&A integration.
Your trusted partner
Experienced leadership for complex communications challenges.
Steady Helm’s decades of experience translate complex research, policy, science, and public health issues into compelling communications for media, policymakers, stakeholders, and the public.
The firm helps organizations determine where they need to go, what they need to say, who they need to reach, and how to move people to action.
About Kimberley Collins
An accomplished communications executive, strategic advisor, and organizational growth leader with nearly 30 years of experience.
Throughout her career, Kimberley has led high-impact public relations, strategic communications, social marketing, stakeholder engagement, business development, and integrated campaigns. She has helped organizations navigate complex communications challenges, accelerate growth, build high-performing teams, strengthen reputations, and translate ambitious goals into measurable action.
Kimberley has played a leadership role in nationally recognized public health initiatives, including the launch of the truth® and EX® campaigns, strategy for Tobacco Free Florida, and consulting on the CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers® campaign. Her experience spans media relations, crisis communications, message development, media training, grassroots engagement, social media, strategic partnerships, and paid, earned, and owned media.
Her executive experience also includes business development, agency growth, organizational scaling, and mergers and acquisitions. She has helped build teams, identify and develop talent, expand capabilities, integrate organizations following acquisitions, and align people, clients, and business strategy around sustainable growth.
She has led communications and public relations initiatives for high-profile organizations including the Florida Lottery, Florida Department of Citrus, Walmart, and the American Legacy Foundation (Truth Initiative), as well as numerous government, healthcare, nonprofit, and mission-driven organizations.
As founder of Steady Helm Consulting, Kimberley brings together strategic perspective, communications expertise, and executive leadership experience to serve as a trusted senior advisor and fractional communications leader. She helps organizations navigate growth, change, complexity, and opportunity with the perspective of someone who has been responsible for both setting the course and delivering the work.
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