EmpathIQ Advisors

Advocacy at the Center. Partnership as the Path.

A US-based global consultancy working at the intersection of health and social issue advocacy, communications, policy, and research-powered insight.

25+ years

of founder-led communications, advocacy, and coalition-building.

A networked bench

assembled around each engagement.

US-based, global

across issue, condition, and system areas.

The case for early advocacy

Early advocacy is not a moral aspiration. It is a strategic imperative.

Every organization developing a product, pursuing policy change, or advancing a cause is ultimately trying to build a relationship with a person.

The question is not whether to build that relationship, but whether to start now, when it shapes everything that follows, or later, when it is harder and far more likely to fail.

01 / Services

How we help clients

Five areas, anchored in advocacy and amplified by partnership.

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Advocacy & alliance building

Coalitions, campaigns, and engagement across issue and condition areas and policy landscapes.

Communications & campaign strategy and implementation

Narrative development and amplification, and often built around partnership rather than a single voice.

Access, policy & regulatory

At all levels — state, federal, and global; approvals, lifecycle strategy, access expansion, and value focused.

Capacity building

Infrastructure, capabilities, and partnerships that let organizations start and scale.

Stakeholder & landscape research

Research and analytics that turn stakeholder insight into decisions.

02 / Clients

Our clients

  • Biopharma & life sciences
  • Patient advocacy organizations
  • Nonprofits & foundations
  • Coalitions & alliances
  • Medical & professional societies
  • Public health & government
  • Health technology
  • Social issue campaigns
  • Innovative companies of all kinds
03 / Network

We assemble the team the challenge demands

Senior advisors sourced around the specific problem, flexing as the engagement evolves.

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  • Advocacy & patient engagement
  • Policy
  • Clinical perspective
  • Campaigns
  • Corporate affairs
  • Media
  • State advocacy
  • Global breadth
  • Research
  • Digital & creative
  • Writing & video
  • Artificial intelligence
Lee Lynch, CEO and Founding Partner of EmpathIQ Advisors
04 / Leadership

Lee Lynch

CEO and Founding Partner

Twenty-five years building advocacy functions, coalitions, and campaigns to meet communications needs and across health and social issue work.

Read more about Lee and the practice →

Tell us what’s standing in the way.

A regulatory hurdle, a policy environment that hasn’t moved, a community whose trust hasn’t been earned, a coalition that hasn’t come together. Communications and advocacy are very often the key. Whatever the issue or need, let’s talk through it and figure out the best solution.

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