MEET OUR TEAM
Client engagements are led by a team of campaign gurus and media mavens with broad skill sets and wide-reaching relationships. Our consultants are former nonprofit managers, political staffers and C-level executives who use their experience to help achieve your private and public sector goals:

Howard Franklin, founder and chief persuasion officer
Howard has made a career of distilling complex issues through powerful language. Landing a salaried job his third year of college, he researched content management systems during the height of the dotcom boom. After graduation, he joined William Mills Agency, the country's largest financial services PR firm to lead media relations for Fortune 1000 clients. At age 23, Howard was tapped by late Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson to serve as CEO of the American Voters League, a multimedia initiative founded to engage young voters. After consulting for city government, he became director of public affairs and e.Communications for a national firm, providing strategic counsel, public relations and grassroots advocacy to a diverse client list of Fortune 500 companies, trade groups and nonprofit organizations.  He earned dual degrees in English and sociology from Morehouse College and has been featured in the Atlanta Business Chronicle and Upscale Magazine. Read more about the Influence Factory's story here.