Helping visionary leaders navigate tricky times
Maximize your team. Reach your audience.
Everything everywhere all at once.
Teams outsourced and dispersed.
Funding drying up.
A constantly changing media eco-system.
AI anxiety.
Turner is where chaos becomes clarity.
What We Do
Who We Serve
Clear strategy. Bespoke teams. Clean execution. Disciplined follow-through.
Turner 5D operates as a trusted extension of organizational leadership. Engagements may be advisory, embedded, fractional, or project based. We build bespoke teams of senior officials specific to client needs. We draw on a broad network of highly senior, long-standing collaborators at the height of their fields.
Team Leadership
Suzanne Turner is an entrepreneur and strategic advisor with more than three decades of experience building organizations and leading complex initiatives at the intersection of media, public affairs, science, law, and advocacy.
Previously, Suzanne founded Turner Strategies, a Washington, D.C.–based public affairs firm with staff across multiple cities, sold in 2022. She also built a national creator and community-management network that scaled across 17 states.
Earlier in her career, Suzanne was part of the team that helped build the Washington office of Fenton Communications into a major national operation. She later launched the DC office of high-tech PR firm The Launch Company prior to its acquisition by another company.
Suzanne is known for helping organizations navigate growth, public scrutiny, coalition complexity, and institutional change with strategic clarity, disciplined execution, and calm leadership.
Testimonials
“The Turner team never felt like an outside agency—they were fully integrated into our leadership structure and deeply engaged in our mission. They brought together
extremely senior professionals across disciplines, effectively creating a ‘kitchen cabinet’ that elevated our strategic capacity and execution.”
Mark Walton
Viagen
“Suzanne has a rare ability to identify emerging trends ahead of the curve—and then make those trends real by securing funding, institutional support, and operational buy-in. She helped design and build the infrastructure required to do something entirely new at scale, including execution frameworks, reporting systems, and internal processes that allowed a fast-moving organization to function with discipline and accountability.”
Marvin Randolph
ONYX Communications
“Turner is the gold standard for navigating the modern media environment. They are at their best in moments of crisis—calmly identifying the next strategic step while maintaining narrative discipline. Turner helped us manage several major international announcements in a disputed scientific field and kept our perspective at the center of the conversation.”
Lou Hawthorne
Nanotics
“Turner brought sound strategic thinking, rigorous internal research, and very senior partners to a complex organization-wide dialogue at a sensitive moment. They helped us have difficult conversations in a structured way, allowing stakeholders to truly hear one another and move forward with clarity.”
Isaac Bloom
The Movement Cooperative
“Turner helped me build an organization from concept to scale. The systems they established scaled smoothly as we grew to hundreds of people and proved resilient under pressure. I was deeply impressed by the team’s vision, commitment, and ability to manifest something that had not been done before.”
Will Robinson
Real Voices Media
Case Studies
Real Results in Complex Environments
Turner 5D has a proven track record working with organizations at critical junctures—scaling operations, managing crisis, aligning stakeholders, and shaping public narrative.
- Real Voices Media
- The Movement Cooperative
- Global Climate Action Summit
- Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Real Voices Media (RVM)
Context: A new national digital network designed to coordinate creators and community managers across multiple states during a politically volatile period.
Challenge: No operational structure. No governance framework. Urgent timeline. Public scrutiny. Pandemic disruption.
Turner 5D Role: Clarified concept and institutional design – Established governance and operational systems – Built reporting and accountability frameworks – Recruited and aligned leadership – Structured scalable staffing model
Outcome: Scaled to 500+ staff across 17 states. Operational systems remained stable through pandemic disruption and a highly contested presidential cycle.
The Movement Cooperative
Context: A complex coalition organization at a critical strategic juncture.
Challenge: Internal tensions. Stakeholder misalignment. Need for organization-wide dialogue involving hundreds of staff and partners.
Turner 5D Role: Conducted deep internal research – Structured bottom-to-top dialogue process – Facilitated complex conversations across diverse stakeholders – Identified structural fault lines
Outcome: Increased trust across stakeholder groups. Alignment during transition.
Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS)
Goal: Make forests central to the climate narrative at the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Strategy: Highly visible, coordinated visual and media and social campaign integrated with coalition partners and international agencies.
Execution: Coalition coordination across multiple organizations – High-visibility public installations – Integrated earned and paid media – Alignment with scientific and celebrity messaging.
Outcome: Forests became a visible and recurring theme across summit coverage, digital feeds, and on-site experience.
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Context: Release of first-ever comprehensive estimate of Americans living with spinal cord injury.
Challenge: Complex data. Sensitive issue. Risk of stakeholder conflict. No peer-reviewed publication backing.
Turner 5D Role: Commissioned comprehensive, footnoted report – Structured coalition embargo strategy – Coordinated simultaneous national media rollout – Positioned issue for maximum legitimacy
Outcome: National and international coverage across print, broadcast, and digital media. Broad coalition buy-in.
Services
We offer three tiers of engagement, each designed to move organizations from concept through execution with clarity and accountability.
Organizational Assessment & Action Plan
Leadership and stakeholder interviews – Structural and governance review – Revenue and budget alignment analysis – Talent and capability gap assessment – Reputation and external risk scan – Technology and systems audit – Current tools and platforms – Data flows and redundancies – Communications infrastructure – Security and compliance exposure – AI usage practices and risk profile
Plan Includes:
- Written Situation Analysis
- Prioritized recommendations
- 90-day action roadmap
- Staffing and budget implications
- Tech stack and AI governance recommendations.
Implementation & Institutional Build-Out
Hiring and team restructuring – Division or initiative build-out – Governance and board design – KPI and performance architecture – Budget realignment – Technology stack design – CRM and stakeholder management systems – Project management infrastructure – Internal communications tools – Data dashboards and reporting systems – AI governance framework – AI use policies – Risk mitigation protocols – Data privacy and compliance guardrails – Staff training standards – Oversight and accountability mechanisms
Plan Includes:
- Org structure and staffing plans
- Operating plan – Governance documentation
- KPI dashboard architecture
- Integrated tech infrastructure plan
- AI governance and policy documentation
Narrative Positioning & Reputation Management
Brand and positioning strategy – Launch messaging architecture – Crisis preparedness and response systems – Stakeholder communications planning – Media infrastructure build-out – Digital risk monitoring – AI-related reputational safeguards – Alignment of internal systems with public commitments
Plan Includes:
- Messaging framework –
- Stakeholder management –
- Launch toolkit
- Crisis playbook
- Communications roadmap
- Digital and AI risk protocol integration
- Media and and social monitoring
- Media and social campaign implementation
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