Goff Public’s planning and ongoing strategic assistance helped the city stay true to its convention goals and articulate its best features – even at the busiest, most challenging times.
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What our clients say
Goff Public’s planning and ongoing strategic assistance helped the city stay true to its convention goals and articulate its best features – even at the busiest, most challenging times.
Goff Public is the only company I can imagine understanding the complexity my job requires. I was so relieved when I found out I could use your services!
Flint Hills Resources’ products and educational programs reach the entire state. With Goff Public’s media relations help, we make sure that our messages also have a broad reach.
Thanks for always thinking of ways to get the most value for our media relations dollar. Talking about Toys for Tots on KARE 11 was a definite highlight!
Goff Public understands how to set the right tone for a project. When we needed help securing community support and city approvals for a Trader Joe’s store in Saint Paul, Goff Public made sure we had effective messages, materials, a strong grassroots network, and solid advice from start to finish. Our broad-based communications efforts were critical to securing city approvals.
Goff Public knew the exact mix of communications and coalition-building efforts to help Linder’s address a local regulatory issue on a tight timeline. We raised awareness in the community and drew on the strength of public support to successfully keep our business going strong in Forest Lake. We would happily recommend Goff Public to others.
Goff Public’s team saw an opportunity for us to expand our media relations efforts to also include social media. Thanks to their initiative, we have been able to accomplish our goals more efficiently.
Goff Public did an absolutely superb job proofing our website! I have great appreciation for those who have mastered language and grammar. Goff Public team members obviously have.
We could not have successfully navigated Minnesota’s media or political waters without Goff Public. Having access to Goff Public’s expertise in public relations and public affairs allows Fibrowatt to focus more time on our business and technology.
Coordinating lobbying efforts in numerous states – all with different laws, challenges, and legislative schedules – is complicated. The Goff Public team is well-organized and consistently delivers the results we need, so much so that this complex process looks simple.
Goff Public’s quick and accurate research and recommendations have helped us transform our communications methods and allow us to better communicate with our members.
Having a successful [Republican National] convention was a result of clear communication. Goff Public helped us get the information out that eliminated confusion about what people could do, where they could go, or how we would maintain public safety. Goff Public was a key partner from planning the convention through the last press conference.
The Mille Lacs Band is very proud of the progress it has made over the past 15 years, and much of that progress is the result of integrating good communications into everything we do. Goff Public has been a critical part of these communications efforts.
Goff Public helps the Mille Lacs Band with everything from legislative testimony to talking points when a crisis hits to PowerPoints on American Indian law. When Goff Public helps me, it gives me peace of mind that I’m prepared.
We worked with Goff Public to create a video that supports our smoking cessation program. Goff Public helped us frame our important messages in a manner respectful to our Ojibwe culture and traditions. It was a pleasure to work with such a knowledgeable, professional and efficient team.
When we acquired a new branch, we turned to Goff Public to help us announce our latest expansion. Goff Public’s clear and concise messaging helped us effectively communicate with our new customers.
Goff Public’s media team has been crucial in helping us effectively communicate with both Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota media outlets about the MinnCan Project. They are able to anticipate media questions and articulate how the project will benefit Minnesotans throughout the state.
Goff Public provided me with insights and tips that have improved my self-confidence and skills in talking with the media about PACER and the National Bullying Prevention Center. You definitely moved my thought process from ‘I hope I can just get through this’ to ‘I have an important message to share, and I want the audience to benefit from it.’
Policy makers have a lot of information to absorb. When Polaris representatives testify before a committee or meet with a lawmaker, Goff Public helps us identify our key points and make them clear for our audience.
I love having a team with so much experience in media relations and crisis communications at my fingertips. Their advice helps Grand Casino make the most out of media opportunities.
Goff Public was instrumental in helping us launch a coordinated grassroots awareness campaign using a variety of channels. Their social media savvy helped us navigate these new technologies, reach out to hundreds of supporters, and inform the public of the benefits of high-speed rail.
Goff Public facilitated our strategic planning session and helped us develop the best plan we’ve ever had. Now we’re using that plan and building on it, which is keeping us on track to meet our goals.
Lynda Chilstrom draws on 23 years of experience to expertly manage successful public relations and public affairs efforts for Goff Public’s clients.
Lynda monitors legislative proceedings and provides clients with up-to-the-minute information. As a registered lobbyist, she skillfully drafts legislation, prepares testimony and fact sheets for legislative hearings on behalf of clients, coordinates coalition efforts, and communicates clients’ positions with key decisions makers. Lynda also coordinates the writing, editing, design and printing of large-scale projects for Goff Public clients.
While at Goff Public, Lynda has coordinated successful multi-state lobbying efforts across the country and has managed major research and publication projects for a variety of clients.
Lynda coordinates multi-state lobbying efforts for Polaris Industries. Under her management from 2009-2011, 17 states have passed legislation updating the state’s ATV definition enabling Polaris’s newest, most innovative products to be registered and used on public land and state trails.
Lynda also provides legislative support and helps develop key messages for other clients, including Medco, Wirtz Beverage of Minnesota, and Hamline University, Concordia University-Saint Paul, and the University of Saint Thomas.
For the past 16 years, Lynda has skillfully coordinated the research, writing, design, and printing of the Saint Paul Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) annual market report. She has also generated grassroots community support for a Walmart store expansion in Minnesota and coordinated community outreach efforts for the light rail project along the central corridor between Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
Event planning is also one of Lynda’s fortes. She organized the groundbreaking ceremony and two-day grand opening event for Fibrowatt’s first poultry litter-fueled power plant in the United States.
Lynda has an associate’s degree from the Minneapolis Business College and spends her free time completing home improvement projects and attending her three kids’ activities and sporting events. She is an active member of the North Branch Area Hockey Association.
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Joined Goff Public: 1988
