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FitzPatrick & Co.

Experience When You Need It Most.

Fitzpatrick & Co provides discrete strategic counsel and governance advisory to Boards, Chief Executives, and institutional leaders. We specialize in navigating high-stakes corporate transitions, complex regulatory landscapes, and reputation governance to protect and compound enterprise value.

Work We Do For Clients.

Logo of FitzPatrick & Co with tagline 'Trust is Earned'.

Board and C-Suite Counsel and Optimization

Coaching and counseling boards and executive teams -- providing leading organizations expert advice on governance, culture, succession and board and c-suite optimization. 

Crisis and Reputation architecture

We provide reputational risk mitigation and crisis governance. We deliver proven approaches and effective tools for those moments when organizations confront the unexpected. 

Investor Relations and Financial Communication

Mergers and acquisitions and support for financial transactions and quarterly earnings. Advice and counsel on activism and Wall Street engagement.

Research

Sophisticated analytics and reputation management models to inform business strategies and decisions. Expert in modern marketing in the age of AI. We also provide data driven insights for fiduciary decision-making.

Narrative Building and Executive Impact

Effective message strategies and executive positioning programs to better engage and inspire employees and stakeholders.

Content in the Age of AI

Storytelling with dynamic digital-first content coupled with experts to manage the complex media and marketing landscape.

Frequently Asked Questions

FitzPatrick & Co. is a strategic advisory firm that helps boards, CEOs, and executive teams build trust, strengthen reputation, improve stakeholder engagement, navigate crises, and drive sustainable growth.


The firm advises organizations on board governance, board effectiveness, corporate affairs, executive communications, brand, crisis communications, stakeholder engagement, reputation management, and digital and AI-era engagement and marketing strategies.


Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, publicly traded companies, healthcare organizations, global manufacturers, trade associations, celebrity-led leading organizations, nonprofits, and cultural institutions.


Our Founder is a public company director, Lead Independent Director, former Board Chair, governance advisor, corporate affairs executive. She currently serves on publicly traded company boards and has served on Nominating & Governance, Compensation, and Pricing Committees. Her expertise includes public and private company governance, board effectiveness, trust, stakeholder engagement, corporate reputation, crisis communications, executive communications, shareholder engagement, and organizational growth. She has spoken at the NACD Global Board Leaders' Summit and ICGN, holds the NACD Directorship Certification®, and was a presidential nominee, mayoral appointee to the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and Trustee of Arena Stage.


Maggie combines public company board leadership, Fortune 500 executive experience, governance expertise, and strategic communications counsel.

She helps boards:

• Strengthen governance

• Enhance board culture

• Improve board effectiveness

• Prepare for Activism

• Navigate leadership transitions

• Oversee reputation and risk

• AI enabled marketing and communications

• Support long-term value creation


FitzPatrick & Co. combines public company board experience, Fortune 500 executive leadership, governance expertise, and strategic communications counsel.

We bring a boardroom perspective to issues involving trust, reputation, stakeholder engagement, corporate affairs, governance, and organizational growth, helping leaders navigate complex decisions and create sustainable value.



FitzPatrick & Co helps organizations build, measure, and sustain trust with employees, customers, investors, donors, regulators, and communities.

Her thought leadership on trust has been featured by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she has written about trust as a strategic board responsibility and a driver of long-term organizational value.


FitzPatrick & Co has provided counsel to::

• Fortune 500 companies

• Public and private companies

• Healthcare and life sciences organizations

• Global manufacturing companies

• Trade associations

• Leading nonprofit organizations

• Celebrity-led nonprofits

• Educational and cultural institutions


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Our Clients

Recent CONFIDENTIAL Client Engagements

Digital first campaign and engagement analysis for a leading trade association

Strategic positioning for a top celebrity-led non-profit

Brand identify evaluation and re-launch for biotechnology company

Engagement and strategic counsel to the c-suite and board of a leading manufacturing company

Support for board optimization for leading non-profit, publicly traded and private companies

Provided issue management and transition counseling to organizational leader

Founder for FitzPatrick & Co. Maggie FitzPatrick, leading board director and corporate affairs execu

About Our Founder

Maggie FitzPatrick is a board director, NACD Faculty expert and experienced c-suite executive who has led corporate affairs at some of the world's leading companies. She brings decades of experience to clients eager to build customer trust, scale and grow.

Our Work in the Community

Giving Back

At The FitzPatrick Co, we are dedicated to promoting gender equity on corporate boards and the workplace. Our philanthropic initiatives focus on supporting organizations that strive for equity.

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