About
Shane E. BurkettManaging Partner, Burkett & Associates LLC.
Burkett & Associates LLC was founded in Nashville in 2020 around a simple premise: public relations, communications, and brand strategy work better as one coordinated engagement than as three separate retainers. Shane E. Burkett leads the firm as Managing Partner, carrying the work from the first discovery conversation through the final placement.
Before founding the firm, Shane spent more than a decade inside integrated practices and agency leadership roles, building earned-media programs, executive voice work, and brand positioning for founders, operators, and entertainment clients whose brands and stories are inseparable from the work itself. That background shaped the boutique shape the firm runs in today — a small senior team, measured by share of voice, message adoption, and brand lift, not by media hits alone.
The firm operates lean on purpose. Every engagement is staffed with senior practitioners who carry the work through, and the same partner who scopes an engagement is the one drafting the messaging, running the outreach, and closing the strategy. That is the through-line Burkett & Associates was built on.
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Senior Team
A small bench of senior practitioners.
The boutique shape is by design: the same practitioners who scope an engagement are the ones drafting the messaging and running the outreach. The bios below are placeholders — the senior team is being confirmed and will be added here in full as engagements begin.
Tom H.
Senior Strategist, Brand
Placeholder — bio forthcoming. Senior brand strategist with experience across corporate narrative work, founder positioning, and identity refinement for integrated engagements.
Placeholder — bio forthcoming
Maya O.
Director of Communications
Placeholder — bio forthcoming. Director-level communications lead with a background in executive voice, internal messaging, and stakeholder communications for founder-led companies.
Placeholder — bio forthcoming
Devon L.
Senior Associate, Media Relations
Placeholder — bio forthcoming. Senior media-relations practitioner working earned-media campaigns, executive placements, and crisis communications as part of integrated engagements.
Placeholder — bio forthcoming
Headquarters
Anchored in Nashville.Founded in 2020.
Burkett & Associates operates from a single headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee — a city that has spent the better part of two decades turning itself into a national center for media, music, healthcare, and founder-led companies. The firm was founded here in 2020 on the bet that a senior, integrated practice built inside that growth would outperform a larger, generic agency parachuting in.
The choice is deliberate. Nashville gives the firm proximity to editorial outlets, entertainment leadership, and the operator class the practice serves — and a senior team that travels with the work when an engagement pulls to New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, or Washington.
- Address
- 501 Commerce Street
Nashville, TN 37203 - Founded
- 2020
- Reach
- Nashville-headquartered, U.S. engagements.
Headquarters
Nashville, TN
Founded 2020 · A boutique integrated practice.
Method & Values
One engagement. One senior team. One responsible outcome.
Burkett & Associates was built on a single operating belief: PR, communications, and brand strategy are not three services that happen to share a client — they are one practice, and they move together or they do not move at all. The boutique shape exists to honor that. Strategy sets the narrative. Communications speaks it. PR earns the room. The same senior practitioners carry all three, end to end.
The result is an engagement shaped like a partnership rather than a transaction. The client works with one small team that knows the brief, that owns the strategy, and that is measured against brand lift, message adoption, and the company’s own growth — not against the volume of media hits a junior coordinator is pressured to produce.
In one line
One system, run by senior practitioners, accountable end to end.
Send a short note
Shane reads every one.
A two- or three-line email with your company, the moment you are weighing, and what you would like a partner to handle is enough to begin. Shane follows up within two business days.