Locally Anchored, Globally Fluent
When the stakes are high and the story matters
Strategic communications counsel for businesses and organisations navigating complexity. We bring 19 years of global experience to every engagement, from CEO speeches and LinkedIn thought leadership to Reuters headlines and corporate publications.
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What We Do
Thinking and creating across six disciplines. One point of contact.
Strategic Counsel
Communications strategy, crisis preparedness, stakeholder mapping, and communications audits. We help you see clearly before you speak.
Executive Positioning
Speeches, op-eds, LinkedIn thought leadership, C-suite correspondence, and media training. Shaping how leaders are seen and heard.
Media Relations
Press campaigns, wire placement, media kits, press conferences, and journalist engagement with local, regional, and global outlets.
Content & Publications
Annual reports, coffee-table books, newsletters, magazines, corporate profiles, Wikipedia, and long-form content that endures.
Corporate Presentations
Pitch decks, investor presentations, commemorative books, and visual storytelling that transforms how organisations present themselves.
Intelligence & Monitoring
Media monitoring, coverage reports, competitor tracking, and research briefings, so you know what's being said before others tell you.
Approach
How We Think
Every business and organisation has a story. Our role is to help you tell it clearly to the right audiences, through the right channels, at the right moments.
Listen First
Understanding precedes strategy. We invest time to grasp your context, constraints, and ambitions before proposing solutions.
Global Fluency
Our experience spans four continents, from Qatar and Egypt to Malta and the United States, so we understand how stories travel across cultures, markets and media ecosystems.
Discretion as Standard
High-stakes communications require confidentiality. We operate with the discretion that complex organisations demand.
Counsel + Craft
We don't stop at advise. We do the work too, because strategy means nothing without the hands-on capability to deliver it.
About
The Principal
Sarmad Qazi is a communications strategist with 19 years of experience spanning journalism, agency advisory, European PR, intergovernmental affairs, and strategic consultancy.
His career began as Qatar's first locally born English-language print journalist at the nation's newspaper of record. Since then, he has managed crisis communications for global banks, built the communications function of an intergovernmental energy organisation from the ground up, supported summits of heads of state and ministerial meetings, and delivered campaigns securing coverage for clients in Reuters, Associated Press, CNBC Arabia, and Forbes Middle East.
He founded Metric BLVD to bring this breadth of experience to organisations navigating complex communications challenges. Today the practice advises clients on both retained and project mandates, with the discretion, judgement, and global fluency that high-stakes moments demand.
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Based in Doha. Working across the Gulf, Europe, and Central Asia. Retained or project-based, we structure engagements around your needs.