Turning communication into connection.

Overview

Every partnership begins with listening.

At ELMA, we collaborate with organizations, communities, and leaders to design strategies, stories, and experiences that reflect truth, and move people. Our work blends culture, communication, and purpose to help ideas shine with empathy and impact.

Whether guiding a city-wide campaign, shaping a brand narrative, or training a team to lead with confidence, we meet you where you are, and build something meaningful together.

How We Work

We begin by listening — to your goals, your audiences, and the context that shapes them.
Then, we design thoughtful strategies and narratives rooted in understanding.

Finally, we help you illuminate your impact, through communication that feels human, honest, and purposeful.

Where conversation becomes transformation.

Practice Areas

1. Cultural & Communications Strategy

Crafting strategies that connect vision, people, and purpose.

We work with organizations to uncover their voice and align it with their mission. Our strategies blend insight with creativity, balancing long-term goals and immediate needs.

What this includes:

  • Strategic communications planning
  • Campaign and message development
  • Crisis and reputation management
  • Cross-cultural and equity-based communication
  • Government, stakeholder, and public relations

 

2. Brand Identity & Storytelling

Building brands and narratives rooted in authenticity and cultural intelligence.

We help organizations tell stories that reflect who they are, and who they serve. Our process merges design,
language, and lived experience to create identities that feel true, timeless, and powerful.

What this includes:

  • Brand and campaign identity development
  • Messaging frameworks and storytelling guides
  • Visual direction and creative concepting
  • Content and storytelling strategy
  • Multimedia production (video, photography, digital assets)

 

3. Training, Speaking & Facilitation

Empowering leaders, teams, and communities to communicate with confidence and care.

Our training and facilitation practice translates strategy into skill, helping people speak with authenticity,
navigate complexity, and build meaningful dialogue.

What this includes:

  • Media and spokesperson training
  • Public speaking and presentation coaching
  • Advocacy and anti-Islamophobia training
  • Inclusive communication and leadership workshops.
  • Facilitation and team-building sessions
  • Master of Ceremonies and event moderation

 

4. Community Building & Engagement

Creating spaces for dialogue, belonging, and collective growth.

ELMA’s engagement work helps communities connect around shared values and aspirations — through
storytelling, collaboration, and human-centered design.

What this includes:

  • Community engagement strategy and facilitation
  • Partnership and coalition development
  • Intercultural and interfaith dialogue initiatives
  • Event design and program storytelling
  • Campaigns for equity and social change

Let’s Build Something Meaningful

We believe communication can do more than inform, it can inspire, unite, and transform. If you’re ready to reimagine how your organization connects with its people and purpose, let’s begin the conversation

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