About DFH
Drysdale Forstner Hamilton is a small, focused team that works closely with our clients to address significant business priorities, challenges and opportunities.
From public affairs and communications strategy development through tactical implementation, we focus on delivering results and adding value.
We have worked in senior corporate public affairs and communications roles in large public companies. We are business people first, and we help our clients add value to their business through substantive and strategic public affairs and communications.
The DFH Difference:
- We’re not just consultants. We have in-house experience leading communications and public affairs at major, international corporations, working alongside CEOs and senior executives.
- We work with some clients as a turn-key outsourced communications and public affairs team, working as an extension of the client organization. For other clients, we work alongside senior communications and public affairs executives, supporting them in the pursuit of their business objectives.
- We have dealt with significant, bottom-line business issues. These include international public policy and regulatory issues, corporate mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and major investments, crisis and issues management, stakeholder issues resolution, labour negotiations, and corporate brand positioning.
- We offer senior-level service. Our Principals work directly with clients to make sure their business objectives are met.
- Our Principals have direct experience working in government and in the news media.
- We understand the nuts-and-bolts of our craft, from structuring public affairs and communications functions and programs, to implementing those plans with excellence.
We are more than consultants. We add value to business.
Please note: as a matter of policy, we do not publish client lists.
Background
Drysdale Forstner Hamilton was formed in August 2007 by Bruce Drysdale, Gordon Forstner and Ian Hamilton.
The three principals first worked together at an international consultancy in the mid-1990s before moving to the corporate world and individually assuming senior public affairs and communications roles at the major publicly-traded Canadian companies, Inco Ltd., Dofasco Inc., and Falconbridge Limited.
In founding DFH, the principals made the decision to combine their respective experiences and form a small, focused consultancy that would provide senior-level public affairs and communications counsel to Canadian and international clients.
Together, they have more than five decades of public affairs and communications experience.