Kris Havens To Lead ROKK Solutions’ Intel & Insights Practice
ROKK Solutions, the award-winning bipartisan public affairs and strategic communications firm, today welcomed veteran research and communications strategist Kris Havens as Executive Vice President of Intel and Insights.
ROKK Solutions’ Intel & Insights team ensures clients can lead with confidence and execute with precision by combining first-hand experience with primary research and data-driven solutions. We identify what segmented audiences are hearing, seeing, saying and thinking, transforming data and observations into actionable decisions, positions and strategies.
Havens has a long track record of helping companies identify emerging threats and opportunities while developing and validating messages that move key audiences. As traditional levers of influence in Washington have shifted, her addition is a key investment in the intelligence infrastructure that modern communications campaigns require.
“Whether crafting a winning strategy or a compelling message, understanding your audience is the lynchpin to success,” said Rodell Mollineau, Partner and Co-Founder of ROKK Solutions. “Kris knows how to ask the right questions to the right people. Her years of experience leading large scale research projects will be of great benefit to our clients and the firm. I’m excited to have her lead this practice.”
“I am excited to join a firm that treats research not as a checkbox but as a true strategic asset,” said Havens. “ROKK’s clients are dealing with some of the most complex and consequential challenges in Washington, and I look forward to delivering the kind of authentic insights that helps our clients navigate through their challenges and identify actionable strategies.”
Havens brings over two decades of experience leading in-depth research to build brands, improve reputations, lead organizational change, elevate causes and manage crises. Havens served as Communications Director for the American Federation of Teachers and Chief Strategy Officer for the National Association of Secondary School Principals (now the National Principals Association). When she was not working in-house, she was advising Fortune 100 companies, large non-profits, and trade associations. Most recently, Havens was a Partner at Penta Group, where she led global and national custom research projects.
Research is no longer a supplemental service. It is the foundation of effective strategy. “The way influence works in Washington has changed, and our clients need a firm that has already adapted,” said Ron Bonjean, Partner and Co-Founder of ROKK Solutions. “Kris brings the research expertise to help us understand exactly what is driving decisions among the audiences that matter most, so our campaigns are built on real intelligence and not assumptions.”
“Research has always been at the core of what we do for clients, and Kris elevates that capability significantly,” said Kristen Hawn, Partner at ROKK Solutions. “Whether a client is facing a crisis, launching a new campaign or trying to shift perception on Capitol Hill, having the right research behind you is what separates a good strategy from a great one.”
ROKK Solutions provides strategic communications, bipartisan public affairs, research and insights, digital advocacy, crisis management and integrated campaigns for leading companies, associations and organizations navigating today’s rapidly changing political and media landscape.
