ABOUT G.K. SRINKLE CONSULTING


G.K. Sprinkle Consulting provides advocacy and communication strategies that influence people's actions. We help individuals, public interest groups, companies, and nonprofits develop effective advocacy and communication strategies. Understand and combine analytical and communication skills to advocate for your point of view in ways that will change people's mind and behavior. These strategies work in influencing governmental bodies such as Legislatures or state agencies, affecting the internal actions of companies, or even successfully advancing careers.

G.K. Sprinkle, MA, APR is a lobbyist, policy strategist, and speaker. Since 1982, G.K. has lobbied the Texas Legislature in the areas of education, mental health, environment, taxes, appropriations, healthcare provider licensure, insurance, housing, general business issues, and sexual/domestic violence. G.K. has increased funding for social services when legislators said money was not available. Once she got $9 million for a company after the budget was passed and signed into law. In a session when Legislators took a stand against property tax deductions, G.K. passed an exemption for low-income housing developers worth $500,000 for one developer. She also succeeded in passing bills declared DOA by powerful interest groups when they were filed.

In 1988, G.K. used her prior experience as a teacher and grassroots organizer to add speaking and training to her company activities. Her talks on the legislative process have galvanized association members. She's trained key people to organize in their area, leading to long-term targeted volunteer efforts. The letter-writing campaigns she organized produced hundreds of letters in support of her clients' issues.

G.K. uses this experience to provide training on how to be more persuasive within your company and to advance your career.



She also leads strategy retreats in wilderness areas. For more information on activities in the Grand Canyon, see Grand Canyon Strategies

Prior to forming G.K. Sprinkle Consulting, G.K. worked as a public relations writer producing brochures, newsletters, articles, press releases, and fact sheets. She is an internationally published author.

G.K. is Accredited in Public Relations by the Public Relations Society of America. She holds a Masters degree in Vertebrate Paleontology from Harvard University which she says uniquely qualifies her to lobby. "I know how to do research and work with old fossils."

G.K. has won the following awards:

1997 Member of the Year National Speakers Association - Heart of Texas Chapter

1993 Award of Excellence in Newsletters National Association of Business Communicators Austin Chapter

1988-89 Presidential Award, Texas Counseling Association

1983-84 Sarah T. Hughes Award, Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women

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