We bring your stories to life. Our talented multimedia production and design team creates content that attracts the eye, is easy to navigate and moves people to action.
Aptive ignites your brand’s presence with award-winning creative design tailored for federal entities. Our multimedia team excels in producing visually striking and easy-to-understand content, from video to print, ensuring every piece resonates with audiences and drives action.
We work in all forms of media. We excel at working in video, digital, audio, print or multimedia materials for radio, television and online to elevate your brand and deliver key messages to target audiences. We reach audiences that matter to you, using billboards, airport signage and paid advertising, including in-stadium ads. We’ve worked with the NFL, NHL and MLB and have our own in-house, paid media team.
With our expertise in meeting federal standards and our strategic paid media placements, we don’t just reach audiences, we captivate them. Trust Aptive to elevate your message and leave a lasting impression.
Our work wins industry awards. In 2023, we won 22 Hermes Creative Awards for videos, infographics, animation, digital ads and social media for federal government clients.
What does it mean to love where you work? We developed this video as part of an employee recruitment campaign with the Washington Post.
Dishonest moving companies dupe consumers out of money every year. We developed this video as part of the Department of Transportation’s Protect Your Move campaign to educate people about their rights.
This video explains Veteran Re-entry Search Services, a web-based tool that enables correctional and other criminal justice representatives to identify inmates or defendants who are Veterans and connect them with VA support services as they prepare to re-enter society.
This animated commercial explains services and benefit provided by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.
Our creative team provided branding and design support to the U.S. Army Geospatial Center, including these posters for the Warfighter Support Directorate.
This infographic depicts United States research and development investments in 2021. We developed this infographic for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.
Veterans are eligible for health care, education, home loans, burials/memorial benefits and more. This ad, part of the Choose VA campaign, encourages Veterans to take advantage of the benefits available to them.
The digital government of today is not the digital government of tomorrow. Meet tomorrow’s technology challenges with Aptive’s digital transformation team. Aptive’s creative team developed this commercial.
When Aptive moved its headquarters to a new location, we used this video to notify people and to invite them to visit our new office.
Aptive worked with the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics to create this infographic about the U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics workforce.
This motion graphic, which encourages Veterans to choose and use benefits available through VA, is part of a larger campaign that raises awareness about VA benefits.
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense employs new strategies to communicate fiscal leadership.
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READ ARTICLEJay Callow is a sustainability-focused strategic engagement and program management expert with more than a decade of experience managing multidisciplinary programs for agencies across the federal government, such as the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Office of Personnel Management and Department of Veterans Affairs. He has successfully led cross-functional teams to deploy innovative solutions that serve clients in the areas of strategic and operational communications, organization development, data analysis, media relations, human capital analysis, change management, digital transformation, technical writing, research and industrial-organizational psychology. As a servant leader with a strategic vision and collaborative approach, Jay oversees a diverse project portfolio. He mentors team members, supports business development efforts, implements emerging technologies to enhance project effectiveness and spearheads initiatives to drive client satisfaction.
Jay’s professional experience includes briefing climate strategy implementation plans to Congress; positioning energy and finance executives as dynamic thought leaders; building brands and stakeholder relationships; developing impactful keynote speeches; engaging with media to generate positive press coverage; executing communication campaigns and web strategies; facilitating enterprise-wide transformation initiatives; delivering culture-shifting workforce engagement products and activities; and fostering partnerships between government, industry and academia.
Kim Kinser is a communications and public relations expert with over 18 years of experience advising executives, leading teams and executing strategic communication plans. She has worked across various sectors, including government, healthcare, non-profit and higher education, providing guidance on communications, social media and public relations matters. Kim has a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, executing global communication strategies and facilitating partnerships.
During her career, Kim has created communications and PR plans for 9.5 million beneficiaries, led teams in reporting and measuring communications effectiveness and ensuring successful client delivery, contractual compliance and contract growth. She manages a direct portfolio of projects across the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Transportation and Energy and supports contract growth within the Human Experience account by performing business development and capture activities in alignment with the account’s portfolio.
Kim’s work has appeared on the White House blog and featured as a best practice in Charlene Li’s book “Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead.”. She has held previous roles with Deloitte, Humana, CALIBRE Systems and the American Cancer Society.
Taylor Grant is a creative leader and experienced designer who applies human-centered design to produce innovative and impactful visual communication materials. Through strategic oversight, she ensures the creative team develops engaging brands and campaigns that achieve client goals while informing, inspiring and encouraging action. She creates thoughtful brand identities, paid media, social, events, out-of-home advertising, websites and outside-the-box creative executions that connect with target audiences and leave a lasting impression.
Taylor has more than 12 years of experience in visual communications and her eye for design and prior work with federal agencies provides Taylor with the ability to lead, support and serve Aptive’s creative team.
Taylor Wood is an experienced communication and change management strategist dedicated to building and leading proactive teams that go above and beyond for her clients. She oversees a portfolio of communication and marketing teams across several government agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Office of Personnel Management. In this role, Taylor focuses on growing and expanding Human Experience’s event management capability and enhancing Aptive’s recruitment marketing services through implementation of technical solutions.
Throughout her career, she has focused on learning various leadership styles and techniques to help others achieve success. Taylor is passionate about training others to lead with empathy and foster positive working relationships, enabling teams to provide exceptional service to clients. In previous roles, Taylor has led numerous communication teams and enterprise-wide transformation initiatives for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Department of the Navy, VA, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Energy.
Kaveh is a creative visual storyteller with extensive video production experience, both in studios and on location. His role is to direct, manage and oversee video production and visual storytelling strategy at Aptive and to help enhance and elevate visual direction for creative campaigns nationwide. Over the past 15 years, Kaveh has been a part of teams and organizations that tell effective stories, conceptualizing creative ideas while thinking outside the box to showcase the most innovative stories, brands and campaigns. At Voice of America, he co-created the ‘People in America’ series, which became one of the most popular and widely watched visual series for TV and online platforms. At USA TODAY, Kaveh helped build and create the foundation for digital video franchise storytelling. At Moko Social Media, he helped build the video department from the ground up and created visual franchise series for all of its verticals.
Kaveh’s core passion is to create a safe, collaborative space for storytellers and creatives that helps foster vision, inspiration and creativity. “As creatives, we do our best work when we come together and that’s exactly what we’re building at Aptive and what sets us apart.”
