Delivering Outcomes
That Endure.
The last decade has transformed how power, credibility, and decisions move across institutions, markets, and governments. Speed has increased. Credibility is measured in real time, and organizations must deliver without eroding stakeholder trust.
Success today is won through clear decisions, disciplined engagement, and the ability to align competing interests at speed - across cultures, sectors and borders.
This is where High Touch Engagement delivers - converting complexity into momentum, and momentum into lasting outcomes.
Defining What's Next.
Our Mission -
Your Legacy.
Clay Doherty founded High Touch Engagement to fill a gap he saw repeatedly across government, business, and global institutions - strategy moving faster than trust, and decisions losing momentum between intent and execution.
Drawing on experience operating where stakes are real and relationships determine outcomes, High Touch Engagement reflects his conviction that progress is not driven by planning alone, but by the presence, alignment, and judgment required to carry consequential work forward. By centering our work on the alignment of message, moment, and stakeholders - we ensure that nothing is lost in translation.
High Touch Engagement
turns moments that matter
into results that endure.
Setting the Direction.
Turning Engagement Into Outcomes.
We design and sequence your engagement across leaders, partners, and decision-makers so alignment is built deliberately - never assumed.
Executive Engagement and Stakeholder Strategy
We translate direction into sustained action - bridging strategy, operations, and accountability across complex organizations.
Institutional Strategy and Execution
Diverse stakeholders require that every message is delivered so that nothing is lost in translation. We work with clients to ensure intent is always carried forward intact.
Strategic Communications
and Narrative Positioning
Bringing together the right actors at the right moment. Applying diplomacy and protocol to establish trust and ensure that decisions are celerbrated across cultures and institutions.
Strategic Convening
and Alignment
Selected Engagements.
We are Proud to work alongside leaders whose decisions shape institutions, markets, and communities.
The organizations below reflect a select group of engagements across sectors where alignment and execution carried consequence.
Government & Multilateral Organizations
Executive Office of the President of the United States
U.S. Department of State
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
United Nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Office of the President, Republic of Kosovo
Office of the Prime Minister, Republic of India
Foundations & Organizations
The Rockefeller Foundation
Howard G. Buffett Foundation
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
National Museum of American Diplomacy
U.S. World War One Centennial Commission
Business & Media
Amazon Web Services
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Terra Global Developments
BBC America
CBS Television
CNN International
Revelations Entertainment
Academia
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
University of Texas Health - Houston
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
Marymount University
Let's Begin the Conversation.
Discreet. Senior-led. Outcome-focused.