There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Desmond Tutu

REAL WORLD SOLUTIONS FOR REAL WORLD PROBLEMS

Kilo Alpha Strategies is a geopolitical consultancy that helps businesses and organizations find effective solutions at the nexus of national security, economic security, and human rights. Kilo Alpha Strategies taps into in-depth analytic capabilities, extensive networks, and front-line experience developed over decades working on the most challenging global security and policy contexts to anticipate emerging risks and identify solutions that give clients an edge in business, policy, and strategic decision-making.  

The Kilo Alpha team has worked across the federal government, Capitol Hill, political campaigns, and non-governmental and international organizations to promote principled foreign and national security policies and solutions that protect U.S. interests. Kilo Alpha’s expeditionary analysts can be dropped into any situation, analyze it, and provide actionable intelligence. Whether developing new lines of business, opening new markets, maximizing philanthropic impact, or anticipating U.S. policy shifts, Kilo Alpha delivers real world solutions for real world problems.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Marcus Aurelius

Geopolitical Strategy

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine laid bare the failure of governments and markets alike to accurately forecast and manage geopolitical risk, especially the risk of engagement with authoritarian regimes. Economic security policymaking at the national and sub-national level continues to catch companies and organizations off guard. The resulting impacts across lines of business, supply chains, partnerships, and overseas assets have raised new challenges for companies and organizations operating in today’s political economy. Even as the risks of confrontation and conflict between the United States and China continue to grow, too many organizations think they can continue with business as usual. Forward-looking firms recognize they have a duty of care to build contingency plans for diversifying and de-risking. Kilo Alpha Strategies works alongside organizations to help them understand and respond to this current complex and rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape.

Impact Engagement

In the post-pandemic world, it is more important than ever for leaders, policy makers, and executives to come together in person to discuss issues and build understanding. Kilo Alpha Strategies helps clients navigate the complex web of relationships and geopolitical crosswinds that drive governments and business to ensure the right people are in the room to discuss today’s challenges and solutions. Clients benefit from Kilo Alpha’s extensive networks and experience in the Indo-Pacific and other key strategic theaters, whether setting up a one-on-one meeting with an important local interlocutor or organizing a major gathering halfway around the world.

Corporate Citizenship

Today, investors, employees, consumers, and other stakeholders track corporate decisions and weigh them against both profits and principles. Compliance is no longer sufficient to ensure companies steer clear of controversy as organizations often struggle to establish and maintain an authentic and effective record for good corporate citizenship. Kilo Alpha works with corporations and organizations to analyze their existing sustainability and social responsibility strategies and programs, as well as to create high impact initiatives that align organizational values, policies, and actions. Kilo Alpha specializes in building successful philanthropy, value-added partnerships, and creative community engagement by identifying hidden risks and navigating complex domestic and international political contexts.

Our Work

  • A defense industry association sought to integrate a complex U.S. Law into their organization’s standards and practices, in line with changes in their industry. Kilo Alpha helped the client identify and develop new elements to refresh and institutionalize a legacy program, demonstrating to member companies not only the importance of the law to U.S. foreign policy and national security, but also how members could implement the tenets of the law into their doctrines, business models, and training programs across various lines of business with the U.S. government and other security partners.

  • An advocacy group sought to highlight how U.S. capital markets drive investment dollars from unknowing U.S. service-members, veterans, and federal employees to companies linked to national security threats, human rights violations, or other malign activities benefitting the Chinese Communist Party. Kilo Alpha developed and executed a comprehensive strategy that included: building out a diverse, bipartisan coalition; earned media, including investigative reporting by major media outlets; and coordinated citizen action to push for policy change. Kilo Alpha’s deep research capabilities and expertise on U.S. policy, sanctions, and human rights law also gave media partners the tools to produce high impact stories that shifted the narrative on a complex issue and led to policy changes by a federal agency.

  • A D.C. based think tank needed to develop a program to meaningfully impact one of the globe’s most intractable human rights and humanitarian crises. Kilo Alpha worked with the client to develop a multi-prong initiative to address short, medium, and long-term challenges with thoughtful activities that engage previously underserved stakeholders. Kilo Alpha secured high-value partners to support convening virtual and in-person consultations with key stakeholders; helped identify participants from marginalized communities; and developed a targeted public engagement and funding strategy around the initiative.

Principled Leadership

Kilo Alpha Strategies’ global network connects clients with stakeholders and experts in multiple fields to help businesses and organizations better navigate geopolitical challenges and meet their organizational goals. Kilo Alpha’s expeditionary analysts can be dropped into any situation, assess it, and provide actionable intelligence to its clients.

Ambassador Kelley Currie and Amy K. Mitchell founded Kilo Alpha to continue their decades-long work in support of effective, principled U.S. foreign and national security policy solutions. At Kilo Alpha, national security, economic growth, and protection of human rights are not either/or propositions. Combined, they are our mission.

No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

Ayn Rand

In the News

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

Contact

To learn more about Kilo Alpha’s services, contact us. We are standing ready to assist your organization in navigating today’s complex world.