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Hear & be heard.
Understand & be understood.

We find the through line connecting your strategy, impact, and vision, and guide you in communicating it best.

For 19 years, Thaler Pekar & Partners has worked with visionary leaders around the world to align teams, inspire audiences, and engage customers.

From narrative analysis to multiplatform visual storytelling, oral history collection to executive coaching, we provide practical tools for powerful communication.

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What We Do

Communicating

Our trademarked communication processes focus on intention, invite engagement, and align your team on what to say and how to say it, so it’s understandable, repeatable, and actionable.

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Listening

Hear what needs to be heard and avoid missing things that matter. Our listening programs strengthen trust and accelerate insight.

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Narrative & Story

We guide you in finding, refining, and sharing the overarching narrative and supporting stories of your institution, product, or campaign.

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Oral History & Story Collection

We tap the value of your richest resources: your employees’ knowledge, your institutional heritage, and your customers’ experiences.

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Multiplatform Visual Storytelling

Through our award-winning media, we develop and produce stories that move people to take action.

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Executive Coaching

We partner with visionary leaders who strive to be credible, influential, and approachable—and who must be heard and understood across a growing number of outlets.

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Our Clients Include

Testimonials

“Thaler is a communications genius with an insanely great ability to see ‘through’ a problem or challenge and create a story-based communications strategy to tackle the issue. What she does is not ego-driven, but value-driven.”

George Heindrichs, CEO, ANDE, Former President and CEO, Intrado

“As a result of the group training and individual coaching that we receive from Thaler Pekar & Partners, Wellspring staff are presenting their work in ways that show more confidence and organization, while letting the passion for our work shine through.”

John and Myles Taylor, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

“Thaler is one of today’s most gifted trainers—period. She is especially talented in helping us tell our story, or communicate in a way that will best influence whatever audience we address—which is critical for our work with clients and constituents.”

Dennis McMillian, Former CEO, The Foraker Group

“Smart. Quick. Visionary… and Nice. Is there anything else you want out of your speech coach?”

David Shurna, Co-founder and Board President, No Barriers, best-selling author

“When I was calling around to check Thaler’s references, one of her clients told me that she was thinking about asking Thaler to be her child’s godmother. After working with Thaler, I realized that the client wasn’t joking. It is rare to find a consultant like Thaler, with the right mix of expertise, intuition, centeredness, ethics and passion.”

Damon Azali-Rojas, Former Director of Field Programs, Jemmott Rollins Group

“It was an incredible privilege to work with Thaler Pekar & Partners. Thaler Pekar, you are nothing short of a guru of oral history, the best in the business, a spiritual guide. Kitty Overton, you are talent and kindness personified, as attuned to every small detail as to the arc of the story. Danielle Penabad Fulfree, you are a master of operations — patient, tenacious, and unflappable. Thank you all for helping us tell our story.”

Jonathan Cohen, Director, The Health and Human Rights Oral History Project, and Director of Policy Engagement, USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

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