A subsidiary of Headquarters Comedy
We sell likability.
Headquarters Agency is a full-service global think tank and consultancy serving Fortune 500 companies, mid-market disruptors, and pre-idea startups. We make you funny, interesting, and memorable.
You’re in good company.
Use humor and win.
Don’t bring corporate jargon to a likability fight. We teach executives, teams, and brands to stand out, connect, and be memorable.
Get in TouchThe world has an attention problem.
Everyone has access to the same information, AI, templates, and slides. Information is cheap. Attention isn’t.
Your ideas are only as valuable as your ability to make people care.
The best strategy, product, pitch, or vision in the world is useless if the room checks out. The people & brands who can command attention have an unfair advantage.
- Being funny, likable, and memorable
- Leaders who sound like humans rather than PR puppets
- Brands that show up in feeds, not just PR wire
- Preparing 6mo for a TED talk and getting nothing out of it because it lacked humor
- You have a great product, a winning solution, or important data, but nobody wants to listen
- Shipping content & ads that nobody shares, let alone watches
You walk into a room, and own it.
Traditional public-speaking coaching has no “it” factor. Great talks have structure, tension, stories, rhythm, humor, simplicity, and performance. Great content is funny and catchy. These skills are learnable.
Keynotes people talk about
Clippable, quotable interviews
Press & ads people share
A brand that people love
We help you build it.
We take our combined experience as exited startup founders & professional comedians, to make the actual thing you need to deliver — a keynote, pitch, presentation, toast, panel, all-hands — and work on what you say, how you structure it, where you create emotion or humor, and how you perform it.
Communications
- Speaking Coaching
- Punch Up
- Presentation & Keynote Prep
Content & Creative Strategy
- Interviews & Branded Docs
- Street Interviews & Marketing Stunts
- LinkedIn Content & Memes
We know how to make messages land.
People don’t remember what you said. They remember how you made them feel.
What customers say about working with HQ:
Absolute disaster.
Who?
If you want to start a war, hire Gabe and the HQ team.
01 — What We Do
Everywhere an organization is seen, heard, or read.
Speaking Coaching
We prepare executives to speak in public confidently, coherently, and without saying anything that later requires a follow-up statement.
Punch Up
We take an existing script, deck, or all-hands memo and rewrite the parts that were supposed to be funny.
Presentation & Keynote Prep
We build the deck, the timing, and the delivery, so nothing about the keynote feels improvised.
Interviews & Branded Docs
Long-form conversations and branded documentaries that make an organization’s story worth someone else’s time.
Street Interviews & Marketing Stunts
Unscripted, in-public content and stunts built to look spontaneous and perform like they weren’t.
LinkedIn Content & Memes
Native-feeling posts that make a brand sound like a person, not a comms department.
02 — Leadership
The people accountable, in theory, for all of this.
Gabe Nipote
Founder & Managing Director
Works closely with clients across strategy, marketing, and content.
Amanda Spaggione
Chief Strategy Officer
Sets HQ’s strategic direction before it reaches the market.
Nora Skay
Director, Brand & Narrative
Works with clients on how they describe themselves, internally and externally.
03 — Insights
Proprietary research from our Executive Briefing desk.
RFK Outraged That Hot Dogs No Longer Made From Real Dog
Our food-industry practice unpacks the standards shift nobody at the dinner table wanted explained.
Culture & SocietyIs Feminism Holding Women Back?
A perspective piece from our Culture practice, published because someone on staff felt strongly.
Case StudyMother Sifting Through Feces To Find Child’s Swallowed Tooth Insists She Is Not A Moron
A field study in stakeholder resilience under extremely trying operational conditions.