Fieldnote builds clarity, voice and power through strategic communications.

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Offerings

  • Good messaging brings your strategy to life by presenting the change you’re seeking in ways that resonate with your audiences. I develop messaging that’s practical, easy to use, and grounded in research. From multi-stakeholder projects to nimble counsel, I adapt messaging resources to meet the moment.

  • Thought leadership is head and heart work. I partner with leaders to identify their core message and build strategy to  better leverage their voice in service of the change they’re seeking. From landing how your voice might is distinct from your organization’s, to building a content strategy around your core message, I support leaders in building presence and power.

  • Once you are clear on the change you’re seeking, I can make sure you and your team have what you need to put strategy into action. Through scenario planning and holding impact as the north star, I develop strategic communications plans that are right-sized and meet the moment.

  • I build narrative power with partners sitting at the intersection of media, culture, and policy change. I have worked with coalitions and across movements to effectively counter harmful, individualistic and zero-sum narratives; mis- and disinformation.  My work seeds narratives for liberation by building narrative infrastructure and developing collaborative comms systems.

  • I bring strategy to life and apply it to the moment by developing content that sings across channels.  I work in owned and earned media. Often, this looks like writing and producing: from LinkedIn posts, to op-eds and blogs, to presentation decks, and most everything in between.

  • Bringing people together builds power. It can be an incredible way to find alignment and move strategy forward. As a seasoned facilitator I can work with you to bring opportunities to life-- from trainings and convenings to strategy meetings where everyone walks away heard and energized.

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Claire de Leon, MPH

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At Fieldnote, Claire partners with founders and advocates to define their messages and on comprehensive and of-the-moment communications.

As Vice President at Spitfire she provided communications counsel, strategy, narrative programming and grantmaking, and communications capacity building to RWJF, Ford Foundation Technology and Society grantees, Prevention Institute, National Birth Equity Collaborative, and the Health Forward Foundation.

She is known as a narrative strategist, messaging expert, and generous collaborator.

Our work

“Claire has passion for social justice, and was deeply committed and supportive in helping us find our voice— and use our communications to advance our work in our region, and beyond.”

—Jennifer Sykes, Communications Director, Health Forward Foundation

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Fieldnote is based in Long Beach, California.