About

KATHY MAYO + ASSOCIATES

Connecting the RIGHT people at the RIGHT time to create the BEST opportunities.

Kathy has built a successful career on making connections. She understands how the right timing and right partnerships can create powerful, lasting impacts– important to the success of projects. With over 25 years of experience, Kathy has developed an acute understanding of the complexity of stakeholder relationships and their political and economic implications.

Kathy has successfully partnered and worked with a variety of organizations and businesses including chambers of commerce throughout Alaska, businesses including Alaska Native corporations, tribes and tribal consortiums, municipalities, economic development organizations, foundations, universities and training institutions.

Kathy and the Kathy Mayo + Associates team (KMA) understand client needs and the process for providing the optimal environment for relationship building and productive conversations. Kathy and her team have experience in successfully working with executives, managers and technical teams, and connecting them to stakeholders.

These are exciting times and Kathy Mayo wants to talk to you about your project, challenges and how KMA can help you advance according to your plans and schedule.

WORK

AN EXPERIENCED TEAM

KMA is a highly talented and diverse professional team comprised of leaders in national and state political arenas, associations and civic groups, including DoD partners and contractors, Alaska Native corporations, tribal organizations and businesses. The KMA Team confidently provides guidance and strategy development in many areas. We assist clients in navigating the complex relationships inherent in resource, community and other development projects.

STAKEHOLDER STRATEGY

Providing corporate executives, government officials and tribal leaders with strategic advice and assistance to navigate stakeholder relationships during new and ongoing projects.

COMMUNICATION

Effectively preparing clients for challenging conversations, meetings, communications and messaging, including social media strategies.

CONNECTION

Bringing the right people together at the right time, advancing projects while creating and building relationships. This includes successfully incorporating Alaska content for procurement, training and employment.

DEDICATED TO TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

“Jobs of tomorrow” is inseparable from any development agenda and program, and I have a track record for innovative approaches.

Experience

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, ENERGY, AND THE ARCTIC

For over 25 years, Kathy Mayo + Associates (KMA) has helped clients navigate complex relationships to create opportunity- developing and executing tactical plans.

  • DoD Strategies

  • Project Planning

  • Research & Documentation

  • Comprehensive Whitepapers & Documents

  • Stakeholder engagement plans

  • Foundation and funder Strategies

  • Communications strategies

  • Rural Alaska and Alaska Native engagement

  • Meeting planning for small and large meetings, providing documents including:
    -Agendas
    -Talking notes
    -Strategies and Outcomes

  • Wilson Center, programming collaborator on Arctic Military presence

  • SERVES as Honorary Commander, Combat Training Command, Eielson Air Force Base

  • TIGER Team Member, participating in CIV/MIL Leadership Tour hosted by General Thomas Bussier of F-35 Lockheed assembly plant in Ft. Worth, TX

CLIENTS

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Over the years we have had the pleasure of working with a variety of clients, organizations and entities.

NuScale Power
North Wind (a CIRI company)
Bering Straits Regional Corporation
ExxonMobil/Alaska LNG
Alaska Oil and Gas Association
PODS (Pipeline Open Data Standards) Association

US Department of Energy
OneAlaska

Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary
Office of the Federal Coordinator (Alaska Gas Line Project)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Office of Pipeline Monitoring
Alaska Native Educational Foundations
University of Alaska
NGOs
Alaska Center for Energy and Power (Adjunct)

ALASKAN

Born and Raised

Kathy Mayo is a lifelong Alaskan. She understands the state and the multiple roles of stakeholders. Kathy is a tribal member of Eagle Village and a shareholder of Doyon, Limited (regional Native corporation) and Hungwitchin (village corporation) – as established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971).

Kathy Mayo is dedicated to advancing a vibrant economy in Alaska, the Arctic, and among Indigenous communities.

Contact.

LET’S TALK

Please reach out and I will be in touch as soon as possible.