About

Strategy, Storytelling and Media Working Together

Strategic Advisers helps organizations communicate clearly, reach the right audiences, and turn strategy into action.

Our firm combines the storytelling discipline of journalism and public relations with the precision, targeting, and measurement of modern digital advertising.

About

Our Story

Strategic Advisers was founded by award-winning journalists who understood how powerful clear messaging and credible storytelling can be.

As the media landscape evolved, so did the agency.

Today, Strategic Advisers is a digital-first communications firm offering digital advertising, media strategy, public relations, public affairs, content, and campaign measurement.

Our foundation in journalism continues to shape how we work. We ask the right questions, find the strongest message, understand the audience, and communicate with clarity.

Approach

What Makes Us Different

01
We Connect Strategy and Execution

We do not stop at recommendations. We help clients plan, launch, manage, measure, and improve campaigns.

02
We Understand Paid and Earned Media

Our team knows how digital advertising and public relations can work together to build both reach and credibility.

03
We Make Complex Information Clear

We work with organizations that have complicated services, products, audiences, or public-facing issues.

04
We Focus on Useful Reporting

We provide reporting clients can understand and use—not dashboards without context.

05
We Work as an Extension of the Client Team

We provide the strategy, expertise, and execution clients need without adding unnecessary layers.

06
Exclusive Access

We have Alpha and Beta access into existing and emerging technologies that no other marketing firm serving the market has access to.

Leadership

Meet the Partners

Greg Greene

Greg Greene

Partner

Greg Greene spent more than 15 years in the finance industry, primarily with Fifth Third Bank. He spent the first eight years of his career as an International Corporate Banking Officer, where he worked exclusively with multi-national companies with operations in the United States. In 2005, he became the Affiliate Head of Business Banking for Fifth Third Bank in Northern Kentucky and soon thereafter the Business Banking Market Manager for Northern Kentucky and Western Cincinnati. In this capacity, he was responsible for a business loan portfolio in excess of 1,000 clients and more than $200 million in loans and $230 million in deposits. In this position, he set strategic direction, oversaw all loan decisions, set marketing direction, and managed a sales force of more than 10 lenders and 48 branches.

Madison Walton-Smith

Madison Walton-Smith

Partner

Madison Walton Smith is the Founder and Partner of Strategic Advisers Digital and an award-winning digital advertising and strategic communications executive with more than 15 years of experience developing integrated marketing strategies for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Throughout her career, she has advised executive leadership teams on digital transformation, audience strategy, public relations, public affairs, and measurable business growth across higher education, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, government, nonprofit, and consumer industries.

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