Jamal Holtz

Thank you for having me.

So Link Strategic Partners, we are an international communications and community engagement firm.

And so we pride ourselves on being a social impact consulting firm that offers professional services in the realm of communications and engagement.

And that's everything from helping people rethink and rebrand how they present

their companies to helping them think and plan around like stuff like strategic planning or community engagement and so we get to do some real real hyper local work on the global scale so we are headquartered in washington dc but we get the honor of doing work all across the globe we have offices in six u.s cities uh and and as well in the united kingdom and so we get to do some very hyper local work across the globe and that's everything from economic development to

to really helping businesses strategic plan and understand their priorities of the moment and do some community-based work.

Yeah, in the words of Dublin, I would say that we're lucky.

We are lucky to be able to create a model that can be adapted across the globe, but also to be able to do that hyperlocal work where it's not just about doing work locally, but it's also about understanding where are there synergies, where do we find partnerships, how do you leverage the global work you're doing to help bring and understand some of those global best practices into communities across the world.

And so it is a real treat to be able to understand and learn different cultures, different ways of work and understand different organizations and how they set themselves up across the globe.

And so whether that's doing work in Rio de Janeiro or being able to do some work in Dublin, in which we hope to do.

And I think this trade mission was a good part of that.

helping us to understand what are some of the opportunities that not only exist here in the US, but what are some opportunities and synergies that we can help deploy and support and work with companies in Dublin as they're looking to do more work in the US or across the globe as well.

I think globally it has not been a challenge to do global-based work.

I actually think global work has kind of amplified in moments like now when we're talking about tariffs and trade and all those things.

But what we're starting to see a lot more of now is

a city-to-city, a community-to-community type of partnerships.

And that's some of the stuff we help facilitate.

We were able to help and work and support with the trade centers of D.C., Dublin, and Boston to do a three-way partnership on promoting trade, right?

That's not a federal government to federal government or that national government.

It's the