Philadelphia Strategies Group is the only lobbying firm focused on and specializing in lobbying Philadelphia's City Hall. We help organizations of all sizes navigate Philadelphia's complicated legislative and regulatory processes in order to turn their priorities into realities. We aim to make government interaction easy, with a straightforward approach that frames our clients' objectives in an achievable way that highlights the benefits for the City and its residents. Philadelphia's politics have changed dramatically in recent years, and your lobbying strategy has to change if you want to remain effective. We are the only practice based in and focused on the City of Philadelphia, and this singular focus ensures our finger is on the pulse of anything and everything with the ability to respond to changes in real time.

Consistently listed among the "Best Lobbyists in Pennsylvania" and "Most Powerful in Philadelphia Politics" by City & State PA, PoliticsPA, and Philadelphia Magazine.

15-20 years

As the Founder of PSG, John draws on more than 25 years experience in the Greater Philadelphia public policy arena to get great results for his clients. Prior to launching PSG in January 2019, he was Vice President for City Relations at Wojdak Government Relations, one of Pennsylvania's premier lobbying firms. John oversaw all issues in Philadelphia's City Hall and successfully represented large corporations, developers, regional associations, universities, and non-profits for fourteen years.

Before Wojdak, John served as a legislative assistant and drafted and analyzed municipal and state legislation over six years for then-Councilman Jim Kenney and the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Appropriations Committee. In the 1990s, John worked on various city and state political campaigns, and spent three years as the Research Director for the Committee of Seventy, Philadelphia's "government watchdog" organization.

John holds a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, where for thirteen years he was an instructor on urban politics and municipal government at Penn's Fels Institute of Government. He lives in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, where he serves on the executive board of the East Falls Development Corporation. He swears he is much better at lobbying than he is at dyeing his youngest daughter's hair (although he is getting pretty good at that too).