AN ISSUES MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS FIRM

TRUSTED INSIGHT.

PROVEN APPROACH.

With 40+ years of experience in government and public affairs, we help clients make informed business decisions, build strong relationships and navigate complex challenges. Our boardroom insight, institutional knowledge, and practical approach to issues management inform our strategic planning process and support thoughtful, sincere engagement with communities,
government and media.

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YOUR BUSINESS OBJECTIVES

Harris, DeVille & Associates, Inc. is a full-service communications firm specializing in issues management. We provide practical approaches to our clients’ communications needs through a wide range of skills and services.

We are the home of strategic thinkers, communicators and relationship builders. We ask the tough questions and put the big ideas on the table to inform a comprehensive approach to stakeholder engagement. We provide tailored solutions to clients’ challenges backed by decades of real-world experience. We help companies adapt to the ever evolving public opinion landscape while staying rooted in principles that have guided successful communications throughout history - curiosity, trust, authenticity.

Wherever there’s an interface between a business and a community or a business and the government, we have the knowledge and skills to ensure that engagement is strategic, sincere and successful. Whether it’s securing investment incentives, navigating the permitting process, introducing a project to a community, or solving a communications problem, our experienced team is here to help.

Whatever your opportunity or challenge, HDA works with you to chart a roadmap to success, and we partner with you throughout the journey. We’re your trusted advisors, your sounding board, your “boots on the ground,” and your resource for achieving measurable results.

You’re in the right place.

Our Services

  • ISSUES MANAGEMENT

    We have developed and implemented comprehensive communications strategies and issues management programs for a range of clients, from Fortune 100 companies to private, family-owned businesses.

  • Government Affairs

    We have extensive experience navigating the ups, downs, ins and outs of government, and our track record of successfully representing and promoting client interests before governmental bodies and regulatory agencies speaks for itself.

  • CRISIS COMMUNICATION & MANAGEMENT

    HDA has maintained a reputation for a cutting-edge, task-based approach to crisis communications and has developed dozens of site-based and company-wide crisis communications plans across the country.

  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

    A successful communications program recognizes the importance of employees and community stakeholders, and treats these groups as key audiences in addition to the media.

  • MEDIA ENGAGEMENT & TRAINING

    We are practitioners who work with media daily. Our media engagement expertise ranges from garnering targeted coverage in print, online and broadcast media outlets, media kit development, organized media visits, or planning and oversight of news conferences and interviews.

  • LITIGATION COMMunications

    Our proven litigation communication services are relied upon by clients in civil, administrative and even criminal cases in state and federal court. With a focus primarily in Louisiana, Texas, and the Gulf South, our role is to protect the reputation of our clients in the court of public opinion.

  • MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCTION

    We are equipped to handle your mutimedia production needs and our services are turnkey. From creative concept development and script writing to layout and design, HDA has a wide array of experience producing materials that generate results. From websites, brochures, newsletters, tabletop displays, promotional items, to videos, television commercials and print advertisements, we’re here to help.

  • OPINION RESEARCH

    A successful communications programs starts with solid research. understand how to ask the questions that provide actionable insight and we’ve been compiling and learning from that research for decades.

featured work

  • Chemical Project Siting

    Chemical Project Siting

    Two major corporations with unmatched expertise in the chemical industry and 30 years experience working together across the globe were joining forces to pursue a multi billion dollar chemical manufacturing facility on the Gulf Coast and considering multiple sites in different states.

  • Global Community Relations

    Global Community Relations

    In the world of corporate America, corporate social responsibility is business sustainability. For one of HDA's Fortune 500 company clients, the measure of success in this area is being listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

  • Facility Inauguration Events

    A major liquefied natural gas import terminal in Southeast Texas was completing final commissioning of the new import facility and expecting its first LNG cargo.

  • Advocacy Campaign

    Advocacy Campaign

    The Texas Coastal Bend needed to reignite support for the region’s businesses and major employers. Relying on opinion research and quantitative data, HDA developed, managed and implemented a multi-faceted advocacy campaign promoting benefits of economic growth in the region built on three pillars: research-based messaging; direct engagement and educational materials and advertising.

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