Heather Bellew "HB"

Relationship-Based PR Strategist

Heather Bellew, known as HB, is a Relationship-Based PR Strategist and founder of HB Consulting Co, a relationship-driven boutique PR and strategy firm that helps small businesses and nonprofits create and find strategic opportunities to get in front of their target audience. Through Relationship-Based PR, local visibility, strategic partnerships, and community connection, Heather Bellew helps leaders build credibility, strengthen relationships, and choose visibility opportunities that support long-term growth.
 
Heather Bellew founded HB Consulting Co after seeing firsthand in the nonprofit sector how much can change when the right people know about the right cause. She saw that visibility was not just about attention. It was about access to resources, relationships, opportunities, and better outcomes for the people being served. Today, she applies that same belief to both nonprofits and small businesses, helping them connect with the audiences, partners, and communities that can support their growth.
 
For the past four years, Heather Bellew has led visibility work through HB Consulting Co, helping clients build credibility, strengthen community connections, and make smarter decisions about where and how to show up. While the firm supports traditional PR efforts when aligned, its core work focuses on Relationship-Based PR, local visibility strategy, and strategic partnerships. Her work helps clients connect with community partners, referral partners, donors, local media, business leaders, decision-makers, potential customers, clients, and aligned organizations.
 
Known for her relationship-centered, community-rooted, and approachable style, HB helps leaders move beyond chasing attention and instead focus on building the right relationships, showing up in the right rooms, and choosing opportunities that actually support their goals. She understands that not every opportunity marketed as a must-do is truly aligned, useful, or worth the investment. Her work helps small business and nonprofit leaders get unstuck, sort through opportunity chaos, and choose visibility moves without wasting time, energy, or resources.
 
Heather Bellew earned her degree from the University of Georgia and brings a background in nonprofit work, legal advocacy, healthcare, and community engagement to her role as founder of HB Consulting Co. Based in Gwinnett County, Georgia, her relationship-based PR approach is rooted in real-world community visibility work while supporting clients both locally and virtually. She currently serves as Advisory Board Chair for Gwinnett Young Professionals, Advisory Board Chair for Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministries, and Communications Committee Chair for Create Gwinnett.
 
In 2024, Heather Bellew was named Gwinnett Young Professional of the Year, received the Gwinnett Chamber’s Emerging Entrepreneur Award, and was recognized as a 30 Under 30 honoree by Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Atlanta. Her mission is to help small businesses and nonprofits become known, trusted, and connected in the rooms and communities that can help them grow.