Purpose-Driven Communications

Fractal is a knowledge mobilization and behavioural marketing agency committed to helping clients in the wider public sector realize the value of their knowledge. We know how to translate specialized research, data and knowledge into actionable, accessible and meaningful content designed to support your social, institutional and business goals.

About Us

We are a diverse team of professionals with experience ranging from knowledge mobilization and co-creation, to branding and positioning, creative development, marketing strategy and campaign design. Our unique combination of knowledge mobilization and behavioral marketing expertise positions us to broaden the reach and deepen the impact of your content, ensuring it resonates with the intended audience, whether hyper-niche or widespread.

Our mission is to help you transform knowledge into action for a variety of outcomes, including:

  • Policy Influence & Opinion

    We strategically craft and disseminate knowledge to sculpt public discourse and steer policy decisions.

  • Progress & Partnership

    Our insights catalyze innovation and foster collaborative breakthroughs.

  • Philanthropy & Funding

    We narrate your story to galvanize support, enhancing philanthropic contributions and funding endeavors.

  • Public Good & Empowerment

    We empower stakeholders through precise information campaigns, contributing to societal upliftment.

Services & Process

We offer a full suite of knowledge translation and behavioural marketing services to help you unlock the full value of your knowledge resources. Our unique blend of expertise equips us to broaden the reach of your content, ensuring it resonates with the intended audience, whether hyper-niche or widespread.

  • Knowledge Audit

    We’ll work with you to audit, categorize, organize, index and tag your knowledge repositories; classifying by theme, topic purpose and audience. We will assess your content for discoverability, searability, usability and accessibility and work with you to build a plan to prioritize how to use it.

  • Market & Audience Research

    We will help you build a deep and nuanced understanding of your audiences and the information landscape they are inhabiting, to ensure your content reaches, engages and informs the audiences you’re targeting. We’ll work with you to analyze comparators, build audience profiles and map journeys from initial awareness to desired actions.

  • Creative Development

    Based on your needs and resources, we apply knowledge translation expertise to both create and adapt content that connects with your audience wherever they are in their journey. We are channel and format agnostic and often work with a combination of video, text, graphical and serial content to attract and sustain maximum engagement with audiences.

  • Strategic Campaigns

    We’ll deploy an integrated mix of paid, owned, earned, search, social and offline media tactics to meet your audiences where they are and support them through their journeys from awareness to action. We use every relevant tool at our disposal to ensure we get the right message, in front of the right audience, on the right channel, at the right time, asking them to take the right action; while measuring every step of the way.

  • Insights Analysis for Research Creation

    When properly configured, campaigns can return tremendous insights about audience beliefs, behaviours and biases. These insights can be applied to continuously refine campaign messaging, targeting and tactics to inform continuous improvement. Moreover, these insights represent new knowledge that can inform further inquiry or feed into program planning. We help you efficiently manage that process so you can turn campaign insights into research creation.

  • Training & Capacity Building

    We go beyond immediate project deliverables. We focus on enhancing your team's capabilities in knowledge mobilization and strategic communication, while also assisting in setting up the necessary tech infrastructure for sustained success. Our approach includes defining personnel roles and responsibilities, ensuring your team is equipped and structured to continue driving impact long after our project concludes.

Our Team

Behind our mission are the strategic thinkers, creative minds, and industry experts dedicated to your success.

  • Ali Rahman

    Lead Strategist, President
    An expert in behavioural marketing, social-change marketing, digital, health and higher-education marketing.

  • Affan Chowdhury

    Account Manager
    An experienced manager of web design, development and digital production projects for various industries.

  • Martin Horn

    Director Strategy
    A digital marketing specialist, sound engineer, podcast producer and award-winning writer.

  • Melissa Taylor-Gates

    Research Lead
    A dedicated researcher specializing in co-creation, engagement and youth-centric content with a focus on EDI.

  • John Constantinides

    Project Manager
    An experienced project leader and digital marketing expert specializing in web UX and SEO.

  • Nathaniel Bocabel

    Campaign Manager
    Supports the execution of marketing strategy through instantiation, maintenance, optimization and reporting.

  • Kyle McKenna

    Creative Director
    A seasoned art and creative director with a solid understanding of the education space.

  • Laura Felise

    UX Lead
    Applies her extensive knowledge to model intuitive interfaces and user-journeys that meet user's where they are and guide them.

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