Government Relations
Over a decade navigating the Maryland General Assembly. We track legislation, draft testimony, build alignment, and help our clients show up at the right moment with the right ask.
Learn more →Refreshingly Human.
Responsibly Efficient.
Strategy, advocacy, and innovation for public impact.
Good Governance Consulting is a Maryland-based strategic consulting cooperative. We help elected officials, public agencies, schools, and nonprofits move sentiment, build coalitions, and translate vision into governance that lasts.
What We Do
Political Strategy
Campaigns built to win and built to last. Strategy, targeting, message development, volunteer infrastructure, and fundraising alignment from launch through election day.
Learn more →Public Relations & Content
Stories that move sentiment and shift policy. In partnership with New Take Films, we build the narrative infrastructure organizations need to be heard.
Learn more →AI & Technology
Affordable tools to level the political playing field. Legislative intelligence, testimony drafting, campaign field tools, and donor dashboards through Good Gov AI and Ark & Dove Campaigns.
View our AI products →Legislative Day & Advocacy Day Planning
All-inclusive planning and facilitation for your organization's lobby day, advocacy day, or legislative event. We handle strategy, scheduling, legislator prep, talking points, and day-of coordination so your team can focus on the message.
$7,500Planning & facilitation. Full logistics included: $20,000
Advocacy Workshop
Three hours with Johntel on how Annapolis actually works: who decides, when to show up, what to ask for, and how to say it. Built for boards, staff, and coalitions getting ready for session.
$5003 hours, on site or virtual
Scholarships available for nonprofits and organizations new to advocacy. Ask about one →
Who We Work With
Campaigns we have helped
Former clients
Why Good Governance Consulting
The best work begins at inception.
Implementation is won the moment you bring stakeholders on the journey with you. We have spent careers building coalitions, designing winning strategies, and capturing attention in a noisy world - and we know that the campaigns, policies, and programs that last are the ones that brought people in early. We help our clients lead that way.
A cooperative of practitioners.
We are a network of senior practitioners - lobbyists, strategists, communicators, technologists, educators, and coaches - who come together around specific engagements. Clients get a senior team built for their need, not a staffed firm padded with junior hours. This is politics done differently, and intentionally.
Where healthy societies are built.
We work at the intersection of good governance, education, workforce development, and the issues that shape public life. These are not abstract policy areas - they are where opportunity is created or denied, where communities grow or stall, where the foundations of a healthy society are reinforced or eroded.
Meet the Founder
Johntel Greene
Founder & CEO
Johntel Greene founded Good Governance Consulting in 2024 with a single conviction: the leaders moving public impact forward deserve a partner who brings both political experience and modern tools. Sixteen years in and around Maryland and DC government. Chief of Staff in the Maryland Senate, and Senior Fellow with Education Pioneers providing chief-of-staff level support to NYC Public Schools in their COVID-19 response.
Read her full story →Our Partners
Senior practitioners who come together around specific engagements. Our products, Good Gov AI and Ark & Dove Campaigns, extend the reach of every engagement.
The Greer Collective
Jacqueline Greer, MPP
Harvard Kennedy School. Curriculum, learning design, research and evaluation, facilitation, and the coaching behind the GGC Leadership Lab.
New Take Films
James Dann, Director
Documentary and branded content. Public relations video, digital content, and event coverage for our clients. newtakefilms.com
Watts Media & Consulting
Lindsay Watts
Emmy Award-winning communications and government affairs consultant with an investigative journalism background. Press, paid media, social, and crisis communications on our engagements.
Let's talk.
Whether you are a candidate, an agency, a school system, or a nonprofit - we would love to hear from you.
(301) 531-4723 · johntel@goodgovernanceconsulting.com