Perspective to Decide, Power to Execute

VantageRoad Partners is your strategic partner for growth, trust, reputation and policy.

Who We Are

We work alongside senior leaders to define, develop and deliver strategies and roadmaps for the business imperatives that matter most. Our difference is in both method and mindset. Vantage Road Partners (VR) is built for modern, emerging challenges, from new growth pathways, increased marketplace complexities, trust and reputation risk to an unpredictable policy and regulatory environment.

Our partners become your partners. Together we create a galvanizing internal force that solves for high stakes moments. We listen our way in. We collaborate to establish the conditions for success, momentum and lift-off to achieve the business outcomes you need.

We bring you bandwidth, capacity and momentum with solutions and answers that serve as force-magnifiers for achieving essential business outcomes. We become a potent ingredient in strategic clarity, defining your clear vantage point and developing the roadmap to get there.

About Us

Built for strategic clarity and impact

Our partners are intellectually invested in each client’s business objectives, honing business vision, a clear vantage point and developing the roadmap to get there.

As leaders over many decades, we understand the accountability, conversations and conditions for success, and how to keep these elements aligned. We have hired and worked with many of the world’s leading management consulting firms, marketing and communications agencies. Something was and is missing in those models. Vantage Road Partners is built differently—an insider partnership model for an age of AI, noise, and shifting complexities. We work through co-creation, prioritizing insight, action and inclusion to move leaders and teams forward together.

When it comes to reputation, trust, deepening relationships with stakeholders and community impact – the architecture of success has changed, the methods have shifted and the insight levers are new. Employees, customers, partners, communities, policy makers and regulators alike can impact growth, perception and how you show up as an organization. Our role is to take a 360 view, assess and move your team through the steps to deliver on opportunities, and mitigate high-risk threats.

We inspire your organization’s leaders to think newly, to consider and adopt new perspectives. We co-create what is possible with seasoned executive partners backed by discipline specialists, and the latest tools of the trade. We understand enterprise change, marketplace dynamics and the many internal micro-moments with delivery teams needed for success.

Our Services

Designed for agility, fast-moving issues and long term strategic impact.

Our practices range from insights discovery, vision and strategic planning, risk assessment and policy maker engagement to organizational socialization, governance and execution playbooks or roadmaps for success.

North Star vision and strategic frame development
Program and project definition, strategic architecture and organizational adoption
Strategic growth projects
Identifying business opportunities, competitive differentation and positioning playbooks
Reputation, trust and stakeholder engagement planning
Internal and external strategic frameworks and action plans, messaging, narratives and improved brand expression guides
Social Impact and community partnership program development
Strategies that deepen outcomes, elevate organizational citizenship and enhance trust
Corporate / External affairs strategy, organization and process design
Rethinking modern corporate and external affairs, from operations, performance measurement to activation.
Policy position and regulatory strategies for state and federal stakeholders
Bespoke and targeted plans to engage and build or mold essential relationships and perceptions at a local, regional and national level
Digital thought leadership and executive communications strategies and platforms
Development of themes and storylines that elevate voice and messaging bank models that protect and increase resonance in the market

Our People

Listening our way in is paramount. Bringing experience, from the tried-and-true to what is new and emerging is our promise. We have been in the trenches across a dozen industries and we can show up, embed, integrate and help lead programs and initiatives to success.

Courtney Geduldig
Founder, Managing Partner

Courtney is an innovative thinker and trusted advisor to CEOs, boards, and leadership teams navigating complexity, transformation, and volatility. She brings decades of experience in corporate affairs, policy, communications, and stakeholder strategy across Fortune 500 companies, utilities, trade associations, startups, and senior government roles. These include S&P Global, National Grid, Chime, Micron Technology, United States Senate and the Consumer Bankers Association among others.

A former C-suite leader and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer with global responsibility, and an attorney, she combines an outside perspective with true insider experience. She has built and led world-class corporate affairs functions, integrating strategic communications, reputation and brand, community and social impact, and government and external affairs, and has advised Cabinet Secretaries, Senators, and executive leaders.

As Managing Partner and active client partner, Courtney brings vision and a pragmatic approach to driving change. Her philosophy is simple: reputation, policy positioning, and stakeholder trust are core drivers of long-term business success.

“The most effective organizations operate from a clear North Star where strategy, culture, and reputation reinforce each other. Our work is about building that alignment and using it to drive real-world outcomes.”

Gordon Locke
Founder, Partner

Gordon has worked with brands across 11 industries, as an executive leader across marketing, brand and sales/business development. He has a natural instinct for the structured rigor of developing strategic narratives, competitive positioning and levers for growth. His experience both in the c-suite and large enterprise marketing teams, as well as on the front-line of brand communications planning, give him context for defining a strategy as well as the detailed planning for activating that strategy. He is known for proprietary development of several models that help brands identify and shape trust, reputation and positioning, and for running highly successful program teams on fast-moving projects and organizational initiatives. He has worked for and with client brands such as Hawaiian Airlines, Sabre, Rosenbluth/American Express, Zillow, Marriott/Ritz-Carlton Hotels, S&P Global, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Verizon, National Grid, Whitman Walker Health System, NewYork Presbyterian Health System, Truist Financial, Meta and an array of start-ups.

Gordon is one of our founding partners and an expert in audience research and insights, customer and employee trust, organizational and portfolio planning, brand strategy development, and thought leadership.

“It isn’t just AI that brings remarkable opportunities to business. Another opportunity for breakthrough thinking is the changing attitudes of smarter consumers, the big shift in employee mindset and growing societal pressures.”

Komie Jain
Founder, Partner

Komie Jain is a global executive, advocate, and attorney who believes business and social good are not a tradeoff. She is a Founding Partner and serves as our General Counsel, guiding clients through complex regulatory, stakeholder, and organizational challenges. Komie’s career spans federal and state government, multinational corporations, and major industry associations – including the CHIPS Office of the Department of Commerce, National Grid and the American Chemistry Council — where she has built high-performing organizations, shaped consequential regulatory programs, and led ESG, sustainability, and social impact strategies that strengthen organizational and industry reputation and deliver measurable results.

Known for her curiosity and sound judgment, Komie brings deep expertise in government relations, regulatory strategy, and stakeholder engagement to every client relationship.

“True organizational leadership means engaging with the community not as a box to check, but as a meaningful responsibility — listening to their needs, giving back through service, and respecting the public’s voice in the processes that shape our common future. Participating openly in these forums isn’t a burden; it’s an opportunity to build trust, earn legitimacy, and strengthen the society every business depends on.”

Charles Fields
Founder, Partner

Charles has compelling enterprise transformation and portfolio leadership experience focused on helping complex, regulated organizations convert strategy into disciplined execution. He has worked across enterprise PMOs, governance development, operating model deployment and data-driven initiatives at scale. He has a strong sense for business continuity and resilience while also leading high-pressure turnarounds and risk management. Charles brings a track record of restoring financial performance, establishing global continuity and governance frameworks, and making complex portfolios and transformations deliver at scale.

“We’re at an inflection point where complexity—across stakeholders, regulation, and technology—is outpacing how organizations operate. The opportunity isn’t only strategy, it is building the clarity and execution engine to keep up.”

Our Partnerships

VantageRoad Partners sees strategic relationships as a critical element in working with our clients on fast-moving issues, time sensitive execution and for scale. While many clients do have procurement policies and other suppliers on their rosters, at times proven, on-demand services and supplemental services add specialty knowledge or resourcing with lower risk and confidence in quality. These include:

Content Creation
Research & Insights (primary and 3^rd Party)
Coaching
Industry Regulatory Issue Navigation
Technology & AI
Digital product & UX/UI Design
Public engagement

If you would like to know more about our partnerships, contact: Gordon Locke, gordon@vantageroadpartners.com.

Our Thinking

Coming Soon!

Our Thinking explores emerging ideas shaping corporate affairs, communications, stakeholder engagement, and the evolving policy and regulatory landscape—bringing forward new perspectives on how organizations navigate complexity and build enduring trust. It also highlights the practical application of innovation, data, and AI to strengthen reputation, sharpen decision-making, and enable companies to grow and compete in an increasingly noisy and dynamic marketplace.

VantageRoad Foundation

Coming Soon!

A platform for a greater purpose. We are launching one of the most unique foundations in our sector, one that puts true impact in play for the organizations we support in our work, and the communities and people they ultimately serve. Our philosophy is that not only do we strive to impact individuals and companies we work with in a positive and lasting way, but we seek to create positive change with the social impact organizations that align with our clients’ social good strategies, addressing the issues and opportunities present in the communities that needs it most.

Want to know more about the VantageRoad Foundation?

Contact Komie Jain at komie@vantageroadpartners.com

Contact us

VantageRoad Partners is where our clients need us to be. We have collaboration hubs in Washington, D.C., New York City, Charlotte, NC and a variety of other locations. We look forward to talking with you soon.

Our mailing address:
VantageRoad Partners, LLC
2 Main Street, #230
Sag Harbor, NY 11963