Uncommon Advisory Group — Strategic Communications Consulting

UNCOMMON.

Clarity for the complex.

We are a senior level strategic communications partner, brought in when the stakes are high and precision matters.

Uncommon operates where capital, media, and influence converge. We bring clarity to situations that resist it by aligning business, policy, and market positioning into narratives that hold under pressure.

What We Do

Our Services

Corporate Communications

Shaping how organizations speak — internally and to the world.

Corporate Communications

We help leadership teams develop and deliver communications that build trust, align stakeholders, and protect institutional reputation. From executive messaging and earnings narratives to employee communications and board-level counsel, we ensure every voice speaks with clarity and purpose.

Crisis Management

Decisive counsel when the stakes are highest and time is shortest.

Crisis Management

When a crisis strikes, speed and precision are everything. We provide immediate, senior-level counsel to contain reputational damage, manage media pressure, and guide organizations through their most challenging moments — from the first hour through full recovery.

Digital Reputation

Ensuring your narrative surfaces in the era of AI-driven discovery.

Digital Reputation

As AI reshapes how information is found and trusted, we help organizations build the authoritative digital presence that AI systems surface and cite. We develop content strategies and narrative architectures that ensure your story is the one that gets told.

Media Relations

Cultivating the press relationships that shape public understanding.

Media Relations

We bring deep relationships with journalists, editors, and producers across financial, political, and business media. Our approach is strategic and selective, placing the right stories with the right outlets at the right moment to shape perception, influence stakeholders, and advance business objectives.

Public Affairs

Navigating the intersection of business, policy, and public perception.

Public Affairs

We position organizations at the nexus of policy and public discourse — building coalitions, shaping regulatory narratives, and ensuring your voice is heard where decisions are made. Our counsel bridges the gap between business strategy and political reality.

Special Situations

Strategic communications for M&A, restructurings, and complex transitions.

Special Situations

Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings demand communications that hold under scrutiny. We advise on stakeholder strategy, transaction narratives, and the sensitive internal and external messaging that determines whether complex deals land cleanly.

Narrative Development

Building the foundational story that anchors every communication.

Narrative Development

A compelling narrative is the foundation of every effective communication strategy. We work with leadership to articulate the core story — the why, the what, and the how — that gives every message coherence, resonance, and staying power across audiences and channels.

Where we excel

Our Expertise

Trusted by investors, institutions, and executives navigating consequential decisions, Uncommon provides the judgment and strategic counsel organizations need when reputation, influence, and business outcomes are on the line. Uncommon is built on experience advising clients operating in complex, regulated, and high-growth environments.

Easterly Asset Management
Driscoll Foods
Mastercard
Better
Kraken
Embraer
Easterly Asset Management
Driscoll Foods
Mastercard
Better
Kraken
Embraer

Who We Are

Our Story

Uncommon is a strategic advisory built for complexity. We've worked with clients representing $150B+ in AUM and have advised global organizations on navigating high-stakes communications challenges, from spanning crisis response to long-term narrative strategy. We work where the stakes are highest.

Founder of Uncommon Advisory Group
Founder of Uncommon Advisory Group

Founder & Principal

Nneka Etoniru

Nneka Etoniru is a strategic communications advisor with more than a decade of experience helping organizations navigate moments that shape reputation, influence outcomes, and drive business objectives.

She has advised public companies, financial institutions, technology innovators, investors, nonprofit organizations, and senior executives on crisis management, corporate reputation, public affairs issues, and how to tell transformational growth stories. Her experience includes counseling clients representing more than $100 billion in assets under management across financial services, technology, fintech, artificial intelligence, venture capital, private equity, and other high-growth sectors.

Before founding Uncommon, Nneka held senior leadership roles at leading communications consultancies and began her career as an investigative and financial journalist covering emerging market restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and major transaction catalysts. That foundation informs an approach rooted in intellectual rigor, media fluency, and a deep understanding of how influence and credibility are earned.

She founded Uncommon on a simple belief: when the stakes are highest, clarity matters most.

Selected Credentials

$100B+

Client AUM Represented

Financial Journalism

Former Investigative Reporter

Leading Consultancies

Senior-Level Experience

Davos

WEF Global Engagements

Crain's New York Business

Notable Leaders · 2023

New York Business Journal

Woman of Influence · 2025

Cannes Lions Morocco

Jury Member · 2026

PRovoke SABRE Awards

North America Jury · 2026

Selected Placements

Stories We've Told

Don't Throw the Blockchain Out With the Bathwater

Finance & Policy

Don't Throw the Blockchain Out With the Bathwater

Wall Street Journal

The Little-Known Standoff Testing the Global Financial System

Finance & Global Affairs

The Little-Known Standoff Testing the Global Financial System

Foreign Policy

Easterly CEO Discusses Government Leases

Government & Finance

Easterly CEO Discusses Government Leases

CNBC

America Needs Its Small Banks

Banking

America Needs Its Small Banks

Wall Street Journal

Time for Retail Investors to Go Into Private Equity?

Markets

Time for Retail Investors to Go Into Private Equity?

Financial Times

Athena: Starting to See IPO Recovery

Markets

Athena: Starting to See IPO Recovery

Bloomberg

Housing Affordability and Commercial Reckoning: Where's Government?

Real Estate & Policy

Housing Affordability and Commercial Reckoning: Where's Government?

Forbes

How Boeing Can Repair Its Damaged Brand Reputation

Brand Strategy

How Boeing Can Repair Its Damaged Brand Reputation

Adweek

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Marketing Is Missing the Point

Healthcare Communications

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Marketing Is Missing the Point

PR Week

Post Roe v. Wade - Fertility Tourism in Mexico: the Current Landscape

Health & Culture

Post Roe v. Wade - Fertility Tourism in Mexico: the Current Landscape

Vogue Mexico

Don't Throw the Blockchain Out With the Bathwater

Finance & Policy

Don't Throw the Blockchain Out With the Bathwater

Wall Street Journal

The Little-Known Standoff Testing the Global Financial System

Finance & Global Affairs

The Little-Known Standoff Testing the Global Financial System

Foreign Policy

Easterly CEO Discusses Government Leases

Government & Finance

Easterly CEO Discusses Government Leases

CNBC

America Needs Its Small Banks

Banking

America Needs Its Small Banks

Wall Street Journal

Time for Retail Investors to Go Into Private Equity?

Markets

Time for Retail Investors to Go Into Private Equity?

Financial Times

Athena: Starting to See IPO Recovery

Markets

Athena: Starting to See IPO Recovery

Bloomberg

Housing Affordability and Commercial Reckoning: Where's Government?

Real Estate & Policy

Housing Affordability and Commercial Reckoning: Where's Government?

Forbes

How Boeing Can Repair Its Damaged Brand Reputation

Brand Strategy

How Boeing Can Repair Its Damaged Brand Reputation

Adweek

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Marketing Is Missing the Point

Healthcare Communications

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Marketing Is Missing the Point

PR Week

Post Roe v. Wade - Fertility Tourism in Mexico: the Current Landscape

Health & Culture

Post Roe v. Wade - Fertility Tourism in Mexico: the Current Landscape

Vogue Mexico

What Clients Say

Voices of Trust

There are very few communications advisors who combine the instincts of a journalist, the discipline of a strategist and the judgment of a trusted executive counselor. Nneka is one of them. Uncommon is a natural extension of the way she's always worked: bringing clarity to complexity and helping organizations communicate with purpose when every decision matters.

Mercedes Eggleton-Garcia

Former VP of Global Community Relations, Mastercard

Let's Talk.

Whether shaping perception, navigating a crisis, or facing a defining moment, we're ready.

UNCOMMON.

Clarity for the complex.

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