Policy Wins
Policy Wins is a practical podcast from Quorum about how modern public affairs teams operate. We break down the habits, systems, and strategic decisions that help professionals move from activity to impact. Each episode is concise, actionable, and built for the pace of government affairs.
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Fresh from the Conference Floor: Advocacy and PAC Insights from the Public Affairs Council Events
We’re taking a quick break from our Small Teams, Big Impact series to bring you this one — and trust us, it’s worth it. Patrick Kalie, Quorum’s senior engagement & event marketing manager, spent time on the ground at two of the Public Affairs Council’s biggest events this year: the Advocacy Conference and the National […]
How Small Public Affairs Teams Can Stay Ahead of Every Relationship
Most public affairs teams know who their power players are: the committee chair, the agency contact, the coalition partner who can actually move things. The real problem is everyone else. The staffers doing the actual drafting. The mid-level regulator who doesn’t matter yet. The aligned group you’ve met twice and never followed up with. Those […]
Small Team, Big Impact: Build a Tracking System That Holds
Most small public affairs teams don’t have a tracking problem — they have a prioritization problem. In the kickoff of our “Small Team, Big Impact” series, Quorum onboarding consultant Tommy Zei explains why lean teams often feel buried by alerts and how to fix it by separating passive monitoring from active tracking. Learn how to […]
Prove Your Impact, Skip the Data Dump
Your leadership doesn’t want a link to 500 bills. They want to know what it means and what to do about it. Yet most public affairs teams spend the majority of their time gathering data and almost none of it communicating why it matters. In the final episode of this six-part series, onboarding consultant Tommy […]
Monitoring the Preamble: How to Spot Policy Shifts Before a Bill is Filed
If you only track official bills, you’re missing the “why” and “when” of policy. In this episode, Tommy Zei explores “upstream” monitoring — tracking the press releases, caucuses, and social media posts where the early warning signs actually live. Learn how to conduct a “digital audit” on new committee faces and why silence from a […]
Not Every Page of the Bill is Your Problem
Your value to your organization isn’t your ability to skim thousands of bills. It’s your judgment about what those bills mean. So why are you still spending all your time on the first pass? In this episode, onboarding consultant Tommy Zei breaks down how to automate your policy review process without losing the human judgment […]