Strategic Communications
Where Insight Meets Craft.
At Art & Copy, we help leaders and organizations find the right words — and make sure the right people hear them.
Our work spans media relations, content creation, public affairs, and corporate communications — advising CEOs of public companies and startup founders across a range of industries.
Earned media has always been the foundation of reputation. Today, it's also the foundation of something new: the way AI models learn, summarize, and represent your company to the world. The communications work we do shapes not just how journalists write about you — but how AI writes about you.
Let’s Build Something Worth Saying
Areas of Practice
Investor & Financial Communications
Art & Copy advises on earnings communications, investor day strategy, shareholder engagement, and the messaging that surrounds major financial events — including acquisitions, restructurings, and activist situations. We help leadership teams speak to the investment community with clarity, confidence, and strategic intent.
Crisis & Issues Management
Art & Copy advises leadership teams through fast-moving crises, reputational threats, and issues that have the potential to affect business value, workforce stability, or public standing. We develop the messaging, the strategy, and the response architecture to protect what you've built — and position you for what comes next.
Executive Positioning & Thought Leadership
Art & Copy works with CEOs, founders, and senior leaders to develop a coherent point of view — and the platforms, content, and media presence to make it heard. We translate experience and expertise into narratives that build credibility, attract opportunity, and deepen stakeholder trust.
Corporate Narrative & Messaging
The stories organizations tell about themselves shape how investors value them, how employees experience them, and how markets remember them. Art & Copy develops the foundational messaging frameworks, narrative collateral, and communications platforms for all your stakeholders.
Media Relations
Organizational Change & Transition Communications
Effective media relations are built on relationships, timing, and message discipline. Art & Copy brings deep connections across business, financial, and trade media — and the judgment to know what to say and when to say it. Our work ensures that earned media is also a busienss driver.
Leadership changes, restructurings, mergers, and transformations all create moments of uncertainty for employees, investors, and external stakeholders. Art & Copy develops the internal and external communications strategies that move organizations through transition with clarity and confidence — minimizing disruption and protecting culture.
Founder
Art & Copy was founded by Tom Cunningham. A strategic communications leader with a 20+ year track record of transforming corporate narratives into powerful business drivers, Tom brings stakeholder fluency and a journalist's storytelling approach to global media communications.
At one of the world's largest communications companies, Interpublic Group, Tom served as the company's primary spokesperson, shaping public perception across critical business areas. He has advised brands including Adobe, Amazon, Bayer, Microsoft, Pfizer, Unilever, Verizon and others on their marketing communications strategies.
With experience overseeing major acquisitions, leadership transitions, financial performance reporting, and comprehensive ESG programs, Tom works closely with leaders to ensure integrated, impactful messaging resonates across investor, employee, and market channels.
Tom's approach to communications is grounded in a journalistic background that began at SPY magazine and The New York Times magazine group, and continued through decades of high-impact corporate work.
Outside of client work, Tom is a long-serving board member at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen — New York City's largest emergency feeding program.
Get in Touch
Whether you're navigating a high-stakes moment or building a long-term communications foundation, Art & Copy is ready to help. We work with a select number of clients — so every engagement gets our full attention.