About Us
Experience You Can Count On
Our services includes a comprehensive consultation to help identify opportunities and pitfalls., a comprehensive project/campaign plan with timelines and milestones, a cost analysis, and a schedule. We also offer a suite of other quality products and services that will help you reach your goals quickly and effectively. That’s how we ensure your success.
Mission statements – Focused on candidates, common-sense issues, and businesses and individuals in need of PR/Crisis Management help, Tork Consulting is a unique kind of consulting firm!
Knowledge is Power
Ensuring a successful outcome depends on a deep-level of planning that happens long before the public is fully aware of you, or your potential challenges.
Now is the time to prepare for your campaign/PR/crisis management/business needs.
Meet Andre Torkelson
Respect for the political process, rooted in deep patriotism and a desire to help individuals and businesses when they are in the most need of guidance, is what inspired Andre to found Tork Consulting. "Tork" was the name affectionately used by his fellow soldiers in the U.S. Army.
He brings 18 years of political consulting, pubilc relations and crisis management experience to the company.
Andre’s specialties include voter targeting, grass-roots campaigning, media relations, social media planning, website conceptualization and development, local/regional/statewide networking, public speaking, public policy development, needs assessment, speakers’ training, governmental lobbying and overall campaign strategy and coordination.
Key Successes
- 74% win rate in various roles with nearly 100 campaigns and clients throughout Florida and Minnesota
- Consulted on citizens’ initiatives in the fields of transportation, energy policy, land conservation, redevelopment, and community infrastructure.
- Mastered best practices for messaging across all media platforms – online, print and broadcast – for candidates with budgets of up to $1 million.
- Collaborated with the Manatee Chamber and the Bradenton Area Economic Development Corporation, to win approval of the EDATE business incentive development program.
- Session presenter at Campaign & Elections Magazine's conference The Art of Political Campaigning, Washington, D.C.
- Course presenter at Candidate College presented by USF Sarasota-Manatee and Sarasota County Civics League
Community Involvement, Education & Military Service
- Vice president and president of the Leadership Manatee Alumni Association
- Former board member for Tiger Bay Club
- Former board member for Manatee Reads!
- Bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Phoenix
- Veteran of the U.S. Army/Army Reserves.
- Pharmacy Specialist
- Combat Lifesaver Instructor
- Duty Appointed Retention NCO
