Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates

What Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates does

Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates is a Sacramento-based governmental advocacy and consulting firm founded in 1997 by Kevin Sloat. The firm represents clients before the California state legislature and executive branch, with a service portfolio organized around four pillars: direct lobbying, strategic planning, budget advocacy, and legislative monitoring. Its disclosed senior team comprises four practitioners — Principal Kevin Sloat, Partner Kelly Jensen, Partner/Attorney Carolyn J. Veal-Hunter, and Legislative Advocate John Wenger — each with prior senior experience inside California state government, including service as chief of staff to the Speaker of the Assembly.

The firm's client base spans Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 corporations, trade associations, and local government entities. Disclosed clients include Accenture, Chevron, PG&E, McDonald's, Anheuser-Busch, DIRECTV, AIG, Teladoc, Elevance Health, Blue Shield of California, Bayer, Genentech, PepsiCo, Uber, DoorDash, the California Dental Association, Western United Dairies, California Resources Corporation, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Sector coverage spans energy, healthcare, life sciences, food and beverage, technology, telecommunications, agriculture, and transportation. The practice operates exclusively within California and has been recognized by Capitol Weekly as a major lobbying force in the state.

The business model is a traditional professional services retainer structure, with revenue derived from advocacy fees, strategic-planning engagements, and ongoing legislative-monitoring subscriptions paid by enterprise, association, and public-sector clients. There is no technology, software, or AI component to the offering; the value proposition is grounded in personal relationships, institutional knowledge of California's legislative process, and the partners' direct prior service in state government roles. No funding rounds, acquisitions, geographic expansions, or leadership changes beyond the founding-era team additions are documented in the available material.

Name

Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates

Legal name

Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates

Website

https://shjlobby.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates is a Sacramento-based governmental advocacy firm founded in 1997 that provides direct lobbying, strategic planning, budget advocacy, and legislative monitoring to Fortune 100/500 corporations, trade associations, and local government clients in California.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Affairs and Lobbying Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Affairs, Government Relations & Lobbying (BPAFADAB)

Keywords

• Government affairs consulting
• Legislative advocacy
• Lobbying services
• Regulatory monitoring
• Budget advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Sacramento

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Governmental Advocacy and Consulting Services: Professional lobbying and consulting services to businesses, trade associations, local governments, and organizations for advocacy representation before California state government agencies and officials.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates is a Sacramento-based governmental advocacy and consulting firm providing direct lobbying, strategic planning, budget advocacy, and comprehensive legislative, regulatory, and electoral monitoring services. The firm represents businesses, trade associations, and local governments before California state government agencies and officials, shaping legislation and regulations from conception through implementation through a team-based approach.

Product overview

Sloat Higgins Jensen and Associates is a comprehensive governmental advocacy and consulting firm offering four integrated service modules: Direct Lobbying for professional legislative representation, Strategic Planning for advocacy objective development, Budget Advocacy for state budget navigation, and Monitoring for legislative tracking. These services are delivered through a team approach, ensuring appropriate officials and staff understand policy and political implications of clients' goals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Direct Lobbying Professional legislative representation and advocacy that shapes California legislation and regulations from conception through implementation, including testimony during committee hearings and stakeholder meetings on behalf of enterprise clients, trade associations, and local governments.
• Strategic Planning Advocacy strategy development and message crafting for government officials, media, and public audiences, including identification of advocacy objectives, message framing, and coalition building with other organizations that share similar legislative objectives.
• Budget Advocacy Expert navigation of California's complex state budget process on behalf of clients, drawing on more than 20 years of combined SHJ&A team experience serving as advisors in both the executive and legislative branches.
• Monitoring Comprehensive monitoring of elections, current events, and administrative, regulatory, and legislative actions in California, including review of bill introductions and amendments so clients can respond proactively to political and policy developments.

Named customers18 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Direct peers

• KP Public Affairs: Sacramento-based governmental affairs firm providing direct lobbying, strategic communications and coalition building to enterprise clients in California — highly comparable in size, geography and service mix.
• CJ Lake: California-focused state and local lobbying and advocacy firm representing corporate and association clients in Sacramento; directly comparable in geography, client profile and direct-lobbying offering.
• Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni: Sacramento-based governmental affairs, political law and lobbying firm serving a Fortune-class California client base; competes directly for the same state-level advocacy, budget and regulatory mandates that SHJ&A pursues.
• Lang Hansen O'Malley and Miller: Sacramento governmental-affairs firm providing lobbying, strategic communications and budget advocacy to enterprise clients; competing for the same set of Fortune-class California advocacy engagements.
• Platinum Advisors: Sacramento-based lobbying and government-relations consultancy founded by a former legislative leader; matches SHJ&A's boutique principal-led, California-only profile and competes for the same Fortune-class advocacy engagements.
• Aarón Read & Associates: Sacramento lobbying practice focused on California state legislative and regulatory advocacy for corporate clients; comparable in scale, segment focus and service scope to SHJ&A.
• Capitol Advocacy: Long-standing Sacramento-based governmental advocacy firm serving corporations, trade associations and local governments in California — same client segments, same Sacramento geography, and similar boutique principal-led model as SHJ&A.

Broad incumbents

• Mercury Public Affairs: National public-affairs and government-relations firm with California coverage, serving Fortune-class corporates and trade associations on legislative advocacy and strategic communications; overlaps with SHJ&A's strategic planning and coalition-building work.
• Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck: National law and lobbying firm with a major Sacramento office covering governmental affairs alongside broad legal practice; competes with SHJ&A on enterprise lobbying mandates but offers significantly larger multi-jurisdictional capacity.

Others

• California Chamber of Commerce (Policy & Advocacy arm): Major California business trade association actively lobbying the state legislature and regulator; not a direct lobbying competitor for hire, but a key institutional counter-party — and a former employer of SHJ&A Partner Kelly Jensen — that shapes the same policy outcomes SHJ&A's clients seek to influence.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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