Our Story is Telling Your Story.
Capabilities
The right team, exactly when you need it.
We plug in however you need — one project or a dedicated team — short-term or long-term. Senior experts — deployed fast. No added headcount required.
Internal communications
Change, culture, and leadership messaging that keeps your people aligned and moving in the same direction, from all-hands to org shifts.
Narrative & message architecture
We find the essence of your brand and shape it into one aligned story that holds up across every audience and channel, so consistency scales with impact as you grow.
Crisis, M&A & Change Management
High-stakes moments handled with a steady hand: crisis response, merger and acquisition messaging, and the internal and external comms that carry an integration through.
Campaigns & launch
End-to-end creative and earned-media programs that reach the right people at the right time. Measured, iterated, and defended by data.
Executive communications
Bylines, keynotes, and points of view that sound like your leaders on their best day, produced in days and refined over a relationship.
AI content systems
Custom, brand-trained workflows that draft, adapt, and localize on-message content, with a specialist reviewing every output that ships.
AI enablement workshops
Hands-on sessions that stand up the tools, guardrails, and playbooks your in-house team needs to put AI to work with confidence.
Creative support
Communication design and video services that give your story the polish to land, from decks and brand assets to produced video.
Trust the process.
A strong story starts with the right strategy — bringing clarity to what matters — sharpening the message — and creating a narrative that moves people.
Define
We uncover what matters most — then shape a clear and compelling story around it.
Align
We bring leaders and teams together around the story — building clarity and consistency from the inside out.
Amplify
We find your audience — understand what matters to them — and bring your story to life in ways that connect and resonate.
Our thesis
AI made copy instant. It made judgment priceless.
AI is everywhere, and anyone can generate endless copy in seconds. Knowing what will actually land, or move a market, is the hard part. Our senior specialists use AI at full tilt, but know it’s no match for human experience.
15 yrs
Average experience of a Husted specialist, at leading brands and agencies.
Our Team
Every seat is filled by a proven expert.
Our specialists are senior communications leaders who have run comms functions and led programs inside recognized brands and top-tier agencies. This team of specialists has supported globally recognized companies including Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, HP, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Warner Bros. Discovery, and SAP. When you engage us, that seniority is the baseline, not the exception.
Operations team
Our Leadership Team.
Our operations team sets the strategy, runs the business, and keeps every engagement on track from first brief to final deliverable.
Allyson Husted
CEOAllyson Husted has forged a remarkable career as a technology industry communications executive. Acquiring her experience at both agency and corporate settings in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area, she has navigated and fostered notable contacts and relationships in the technology sector. In the span of her 30-year career, Allyson has worked with groundbreaking industry entrepreneurs, renowned Fortune 1000 corporate executives and a wide array of talented communications professionals.
Allyson became a communications pioneer when she embarked on a unique niche as a corporate communications consultant to business executives and HCI was born. She soon built a highly-qualified team of seasoned consultants to provide executive-level communication services to clients who require the highest level of executive communications support. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Rhetoric and Communications from the University of California at Davis and resides in Danville, Calif.
Brooke Bedell
Managing DirectorBrooke Bedell is Managing Director of Husted Communications, where she helps lead the firm's strategy, growth, and client delivery while partnering with leading technology and media companies to navigate moments of growth, transformation, and change. She advises leaders and communications teams on executive communications, internal communications, organizational change, and AI-enabled communications strategies.
Before joining Husted, Brooke held communications leadership roles at Apple and Lucasfilm, where she led high-impact programs spanning executive visibility, employee engagement, brand storytelling, and corporate communications.
Dave Husted
CFODave Husted has built a 30-year career as a small business specialist, starting at a Silicon Valley start-up and later leading sales for key national accounts at CompuCom Systems. Recruited by Ernst & Young in San Francisco, Dave found his passion in small businesses.
Dave launched Outside Interests, a Bay Area boutique retail business, engaging with the local community through outdoor gear and activities. After the 2001 dot com bust, he became a Certified Business Intermediary, facilitating private-business deals for small businesses. Dave joined HCI shortly thereafter, leveraging his business acumen to significantly contribute to the company's growth.
Ashley Hart
Project ManagerAshley Hart has enjoyed working with HCI for over 10 years. With a strong background in public relations, Ashley has worked on campaigns for all types of businesses including tech, real estate, nonprofit, food and beverage, resorts, public service and retail. She has an agency background and has worked extensively in media relations, event planning and execution, media writing, pitching and media training. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations with a minor in business from Brigham Young University Provo and currently resides in Peoria, Ariz.
Our Clients
Trusted by the teams building what’s next.
For nearly 30 years, leading companies have turned to Husted to tell their story.
