Sovereign is a strategic, financial and crisis communications advisory firm, built to meet the evolving needs of modern-day C-suite and board leaders. We work closely with the world’s top-tier organizations and change makers, providing clear and insightful counsel that delivers tangible and meaningful impact. Our firm has decades of experience in crisis and issues management, capital markets advisory and strategic communications, enabling us to empower our clients to navigate critical situations with confidence. Sovereign has a global reach, serving clients in North America, Europe and the Middle East.
Our Services
Crisis and Reputation
Planning and preparedness
We conduct thorough strategic planning sessions to identify and map out top threats facing our clients and develop tailored crisis communications plans to mitigate these risks. We also ensure our clients can practically respond to a crisis with confidence through immersive simulations and crisis media training.
Crisis leadership
Sovereign is committed to providing our clients with 24/7 real-time crisis counsel when it matters most. Our senior advisors have expertly guided global business leaders through high-stakes situations where getting it right the first time is the only option, and where on-demand counsel is essential.
Reputation resilience
Regaining stakeholder trust after a crisis requires a thoughtful and multifaceted approach backed by data-driven insights. Repairing an organizational or individual reputation takes time, and our proven methods help our clients re-establish reputation resilience that puts them on a stronger foot for the future.
Cybersecurity rapid response
Stakeholders will remember how an organization responds to a cyber threat or incident much more vividly than the incident itself. When a data breach occurs, our team responds at a moment’s notice to provide strategic communications support such as media relations, internal and external messaging and media monitoring.
Financial Communications
Mergers and acquisitions
Telling a clear, concise and impactful story around an M&A transaction is absolutely critical to driving shareholder value and investor support, regardless of whether the deal is a small tuck-in or a transformative acquisition that reshapes your company. We’ve led communications strategy planning and execution on billions of dollars’ worth of corporate transactions, across most sectors of the economy. We are experts at distilling the noise and competing viewpoints surrounding a transaction into a compelling narrative that resonates with the market.
Shareholder activism
We’ve advised on many contested special situations, shaping defense strategies against activist shareholders and helping engaged investors drive change at the board and executive leadership level. An effective communications strategy, whether defensive or offensive, can sway shareholder votes, reshape companies and unlock significant value, especially when amplified through our extensive network of deep relationships with financial journalists and analysts in the markets we serve.
IPO communications
A market debut is an exciting and important time for a newly public company. We work with founder-CEOs to support the launch of their business onto an exchange, ensuring that their business is understood clearly by retail and institutional investors alike, and that sell-side analysts sit up and take notice.
Family Office communications
We assist ultra-high net worth families and their family offices in negotiating complex situations with family members, operating company leaders and numerous other stakeholders. When legacies are on the line, some of Canada’s most prominent families have counted on us for communications strategy, counsel and execution.
Strategic Communications
Corporate positioning
Every business has to stand out in the market, define its unique value proposition and align its image with its business goals. We help companies of all sizes close that gap, establishing trust and respect among stakeholders, enhancing reputation and ultimately driving business growth. We take a full 360-degree approach and work closely with our clients to understand their unique challenges and needs and build comprehensive communications plans that shape perceptions and turn customers into advocates.
Thought leadership
Tailored thought leadership programs help showcase your organization’s intellectual firepower and industry expertise – but only if they’re executed effectively. Unlike your in-house communications team or a junior-staffed agency, we bring journalism-grade content strategy and execution to our clients. We have written for Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, Reuters, The National Post, The Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and many more.
Change management
Change can feel daunting, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Whether it’s full sale restructuring, an acquisition or expansion, effective change management is led by clear and impactful internal communications. Employees demand a clear path forward, and our ability to execute a strategic plan with supporting messaging development will instill confidence among stakeholders that your company is on the right course.
Stakeholder engagement
Understanding the needs and wants of priority stakeholders should underpin the communications strategies when it comes to major business decisions. We craft incisive strategies that connect and resonate with regulators, government, community leaders, shareholders, customers and others.
Public Relations
Media relations
With decades of direct newsroom experience at media outlets like Reuters, National Post, The Canadian Press, CTV News and others, we know how to engage journalists and tell your side of any story before someone else does it for you. We are at home inside a real-time, 24/7 news cycle and help organizations protect their brands and enhance their reputations in print, video, and online.
Litigation communications
When lawsuits are filed in a high-profile dispute, the media often sit up and take notice. That’s why properly contextualizing and crisply summarizing the key points of your claim or defense can be critical to shaping public perception of your position. We work with journalists on the record, on background and off the record to ensure that your organization’s stance is clearly articulated in all media coverage.
Executive coaching and media training
We have trained C-suite leaders at all manner of public and private companies, from telecoms and airlines to financial institutions and tech. We leverage our extensive journalism and communications advisory experience to create bespoke programs that equip your leaders with confidence, strength and the ability to make the most of any media opportunity, whether proactive or event-driven.
Executive profiling
Whether you’re a new CEO just starting in the corner office, or an accomplished leader looking for a refresh of your personal brand, we offer a variety of creative, innovative and proven strategies to position you and your organization in front of the largest and most influential media outlets in your market. We ideate, plan, strategize and augment our work with generative artificial intelligence to cut through the noise and ensure you and your business receive the profile and mindshare that you deserve.
Our Past and Present Clients
Meet the Team
Morgan McLellan
Managing Partner
Morgan is a seasoned communications leader with over a decade of experience spanning journalism, strategic communications, and crisis management. Known for his ability to deliver results in high-stakes situations, Morgan has successfully navigated complex mandates at the intersection of media, politics, and business. His expertise lies in shaping narratives, managing reputational risks, and driving strategic messaging to meet organizational goals. Morgan began his career at CTV News, where he honed his storytelling skills and developed a deep understanding of the media landscape. He left journalism to work in consulting, holding senior roles at Navigator and Provident Communications. Most recently, Morgan served as Vice President, Global Communications at a multinational, publicly traded technology company before co-founding Sovereign.
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E: morgan@sovereigncomms.com
T: 647-802-4825
Wojtek Dabrowski
Managing Partner
Wojtek is an expert-level communications leader with a track record of protecting and enhancing global brands and delivering strategic communications counsel to senior executives and boards of directors. He most recently served as the Chief Communications Officer at Dye & Durham Corporation, a leading global legal tech company. Prior to that, he was founder and managing partner at Provident Communications Inc., an award-winning strategic communications and public relations firm based in Toronto. Before that, he served in a variety of progressively senior corporate communications and public relations leadership roles at Manulife Financial Corp., Royal Bank of Canada and TD Bank Group. Wojtek also has an extensive background in daily business journalism, having served in reporting and editing roles at Thomson Reuters, the National Post and The Canadian Press.
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E: wojtek@sovereigncomms.com
T: 647-825-5009
Sharan Kaur
Partner
Sharan is a seasoned communications expert with nearly two decades of experience in crisis management, media relations, and strategic communications across politics, media, and the private sector. Most recently, Sharan led the crisis communications and issues management function at Aramco, the world’s largest and most profitable company, where she played a pivotal role in enhancing the company's transparency and response strategies in an evolving geopolitical landscape.
Previously, Sharan served as the Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Operations to Canada’s Minister of Finance for five years, where she gained a profound understanding of global geopolitical issues.
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Matt Roth
Partner
Matt Roth brings more than twenty years of hands-on experience in corporate communications, brand and product marketing, media relations and issues and crisis management to Sovereign, with an award-winning track record in developing and driving standout thought leadership and integrated marketing campaigns. Matt has extensive experience acting as a strategic and program lead for national and international mandates, with an expertise in B2B/enterprise technology, consumer technology and financial and professional services.​
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E: matt@sovereigncomms.com
T: 647-518-6754
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