The Minerva Group | Clarity Before Communication
The Minerva Group

Clarity before communication.

Strategic communications counsel for founders, executives and the companies they lead: the story, strategy and visibility to reach the customers, investors and media who can help you grow.

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What Are You Trying to Accomplish?

Start with the outcome.

Get Seen

Build visibility and credibility for your company and for the leaders behind it.

Get Clear

Sharpen your story, positioning and what you want to be known for.

Get Strategic

Build a communications strategy tied to what the business actually needs to accomplish.

Who We Work With

Built for consequential moments.

Founders & Executives

You've built something worth knowing about. We sharpen the story and put it in front of the people who matter.

Tech & AI Companies

When the product, company or category is moving faster than the story, we help make complexity clear and credible.

Consumer & Cultural Brands

When the brand is stepping into culture, we make sure the strategy behind the moment is as strong as the execution.

The Minerva Method™

Don't start with what to say. Start with what you're trying to change.

Get the outcome you came for, not just the communications activity you asked for.

Whether you want more people talking about you and your company, a story that finally clicks, or a communications strategy that moves the business forward, The Minerva Method™ creates a clear path from what you want to accomplish to the communications most likely to get you there.

Before Minerva recommends a message, media pitch, campaign or channel, we determine what needs to change, who can create that change, what will move them, where to reach them and how we'll know it worked.

The result: less wasted effort. Smarter investment. Communications built to deliver the outcome that mattered in the first place.

01

Clarify

Why are we doing this?

02

Align

Who needs to move?

03

Shape

What will move them?

04

Activate

Where should we invest?

05

Measure

So what changed?

Start With a Visibility Blueprint

Visibility isn't guesswork.

The Minerva Method™ connects what you're trying to accomplish to who you need to reach, what they need to hear, where to reach them and how you'll know it worked.

Step one

30 Minutes

To understand your business.

Step two

24 Hours

To build your visibility plan.

Step three

30 Days

To put it to work.

Work With Minerva

Pick your starting point.

01 · Get Seen

Visibility Sprint

4–6 weeks

Sharpen your story and get it in front of the people who matter. Minerva develops your narrative, identifies the stories worth telling, and leads targeted media outreach designed to build meaningful visibility and credibility.

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What's included
Best for
Founders and growing companies with a story worth telling that the right customers, investors and media have not yet heard.
The problem it solves
Strong companies stay invisible when the story is unclear and nobody is reaching the right people with it.
What you get
  • A clear narrative and a priority audience
  • The stories worth telling, and where to tell them
  • Targeted media outreach led by Minerva
  • A plan for what to do next
How it works
Starts with a 30-minute discovery call and your Visibility Blueprint, then Minerva puts the plan to work over 4–6 weeks.
Business value
Visibility aimed at the customers, investors and media who can help the company grow, rather than press for its own sake.
Next step
Book a 30-minute discovery call or send a note below. Minerva will confirm whether this is the right starting point.
02 · Get Clear

Narrative & Positioning Sprint

4–6 weeks

Clarify what you do, why it matters and what you should be known for.

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What's included
Best for
Founders and executives whose company, product or ambition has outgrown the way it is described.
The problem it solves
Different people explain what you do differently, and the story is not landing with the people who matter.
What you get
  • Positioning and a core narrative: context, belief, proof and action
  • Key messages and the proof points behind them
  • A Movement Statement™ that names who needs to move, and why
  • Language your whole team can repeat
How it works
Built on The Minerva Method™: a working conversation to clarify the goal, drafting, then refinement with you until it is ready to use.
Business value
One story, tied to what the business needs to accomplish, that everyone can tell the same way.
Next step
Book a 30-minute discovery call or send a note below. Minerva will confirm whether this is the right starting point.
03 · Get Strategic

Communications Strategy Intensive

3–4 weeks

Turn a business priority into a clear communications strategy with defined audiences, narrative, investment priorities and measures of success.

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What's included
Best for
Executives and communications leaders with real communications activity but no clear link to a business priority.
The problem it solves
Communications effort grows faster than strategic clarity, so time and budget go to work that does not move the business.
What you get
  • A one-page strategy: objective, intended change and priority audience
  • The narrative, and the proof behind it
  • Clear calls on what to prioritize and what to stop
  • A scorecard that defines success before you spend
How it works
The five stages of The Minerva Method™ (Clarify, Align, Shape, Activate, Measure) over 3–4 weeks of working sessions.
Business value
Less wasted effort, smarter investment, and a strategy you can defend to your leadership team.
Next step
Book a 30-minute discovery call or send a note below. Minerva will confirm whether this is the right starting point.
04 · Stay Strategic

Strategic Advisory

Ongoing, 3-month minimum

Senior communications counsel for leaders navigating growth, change and high-stakes decisions.

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What's included
Best for
Founders and executives navigating growth, change or consequential decisions who want a senior communications perspective in the room.
The problem it solves
High-stakes moments arrive faster than a team can build a strategy for them.
What you get
  • Regular working sessions with Amber
  • Senior perspective as decisions come up
  • Narrative and executive positioning support
  • Guidance through sensitive stakeholder moments
How it works
Scoped in a discovery conversation, then ongoing with a 3-month minimum.
Business value
A trusted senior advisor who knows your business, so decisions are made with clarity instead of in a scramble.
Next step
Book a 30-minute discovery call or send a note below. Minerva will confirm whether this is the right starting point.
Get Seen · For Leaders

Executive Visibility

Scoped in a discovery call

Your own strategic publicist. Minerva builds the narrative, positioning and visibility plan for you as a leader, then leads the media, speaking and thought-leadership work that puts you in front of the people who matter.

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Best for
Founders, CEOs and senior executives who want to be known for something specific, and whose company, board, investors or industry are watching.
The problem it solves
Leaders are judged by their public presence, but most have no plan for it. Press, podcasts and stages arrive ad hoc, and the narrative is left to chance.
What you get
  • Your executive narrative and positioning: what you stand for and what you are known for
  • A visibility plan: priority audiences, platforms and moments
  • Media, podcast and speaking strategy, with outreach led by Minerva
  • Thought-leadership development, from point of view to published pieces
  • Preparation for interviews and high-stakes appearances
How it works
Starts with a discovery conversation, built on The Minerva Method™, then Minerva works alongside you to put the plan into action.
Business value
A leader who is known for something specific gives the company, its hires, partners and investors a clearer reason to engage.
Experience behind it
Executive communications strategies built and run for leaders at the CIA, Google and YouTube, including CIA Directors, Google VPs and YouTube's Chief Product Officer and Global Head of Music.

Also available: Executive Media & Presence Training.

Amber C. Johnson, Founder and Principal of The Minerva Group
Founder

Amber C. Johnson

Founder & Principal

Amber is a strategic communications advisor with 20 years of experience helping leaders navigate technology, transformation, culture and reputation-defining moments.

Across the CIA, Google and YouTube, she has advised executives through complex moments when the answer wasn't obvious and there wasn't already a playbook.

She founded The Minerva Group around a simple belief: the best communications strategies don't begin with what an organization wants to say. They begin with what it needs to accomplish.

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Looking to build visibility, sharpen your story, rethink your communications strategy or navigate a high-stakes moment? Start with the outcome you're trying to create. We'll figure out the right path from there.

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