We are energi PR. Making connections that transform your business.
About Our PR Agency
We provide world-class insights, local market knowledge, strategy and implementation through public relations and integrated social and digital marketing communications. With a focus on consumer health, lifestyle and medical science communications, we are the first Canadian, independently-owned national bilingual PR agency with offices in Toronto and Montreal. We are also the sole Canadian agency partner of Global Health Marketing & Communications (GHMC), the largest and most robust network of independent healthcare agencies worldwide.
Our Approach
Innovation is what makes your corporate story unique along with the credibility, values and leadership that are the cornerstones of your social enterprise. We communicate your story with precision and creativity in new ways that people can’t ignore.
Who you speak to and where you connect with them is just as important as what you have to say. Our knowledge of consumers, patients and healthcare professionals ensures that your stories will resonate, whether it’s a novel medical therapy, a next-generation consumer product or an incredible travel destination.
Awards and media hits are nice, but we focus on putting winning strategies into play. We ask the right questions, deliver honest answers and move the needle on influence, relationships and trust. Exceptionally executed, this is the power of PR.
Our Clients
Our clients are innovators, addressing some of the world’s most pressing, unmet medical needs and developing the next generation of consumer products and services. They are driven by success, open to new ideas and approaches and value having experienced PR professionals working alongside them. Our independence and entrepreneurial spirit means we are on this journey together.
Our Values
energi PR is an independently owned and managed public relations, social and digital communications agency. We wouldn’t have it any other way. We focus on our clients, colleagues, and values without answering to a higher power. Being independent means the buck stops with us and we take this responsibility seriously. Because we’ve chosen to specialize in consumer health and wellness, lifestyle and medical communications, how we do our job has a meaningful impact on people’s lives, including our own.
We are all looking for products and services that make our lives better, healthier and safer, that add enjoyment, even excitement. Expertly translating high science and differentiating a product based on its formulation, mode of action or delivery system in a way that anyone can understand is what sets us apart. For more than three decades. energi PR has been the strategy-first agency that makes sense of the science, communicates the complex, translates the technical and articulates the awesome.
Our Leadership
energi leads with excellence. We are experienced, hands-on PR practitioners. We are agile and entrepreneurial, challenging standards and approaches in our field, bringing life to compelling ideas and guiding our clients and their brands through the most complex business challenges.
Carol Levine
Co-Founder, CEO
Stephanie Engel
Senior Vice President
Bonnie Levine
Chief Operating Officer
Carrie Sanders
VP Strategy & Partnerships
Theodora Samiotis
Senior Advisor
Remembering Our Co-Founder
Esther Buchsbaum
As President and Co-Founder of energi PR, Esther brought more than 30 years of brand development and strategic counsel to a range of clients in the consumer, lifestyle, health and wellness arenas. More than that, Esther brought unparalleled passion for the profession of communications. She enjoyed no greater satisfaction than to provide strategic insights and develop solutions to the myriad of issues faced by our clients.
Her leadership and expertise in corporate and stakeholder communications, strategic planning, issues and reputation management, crisis preparedness and Corporate Social Responsibility program development and implementation produced exceptional results for leading Canadian and international brands. An APR and Fellow of the Canadian Public Relations Society, Esther was active in industry and community relations including serving as a regular guest lecturer and panel expert at the McGill Desautels Faculty of Management and MBA programs. She was admired and respected by her team, clients, and colleagues throughout the world.
In 2020 and at the height of a global pandemic, Esther faced the greatest challenge of her life, incurable brain cancer. A true force of nature, she confronted her prognosis with grace, courage, and humour. Sadly, she left all of us on May 14, 2022, heartbroken, but with determination to continue the legacy that she and her business partner, co-founder and dear friend Carol Levine began in 1990. Her energi lives on.
Our Partners
energi brings the value of key strategic relationships to the mix. It’s not just what you know, it’s who you know. Our relationships mean everything to us and our clients.
energi PR is the exclusive Canadian partner agency of Global Health Marketing & Communications (GHMC). GHMC is the largest and most robust network of independent healthcare agencies worldwide, dedicated to improving outcomes through the delivery of dynamic, health-lingual experiences that drive meaningful global change. With more than 700 health-specialist communications professionals spanning more than a dozen disciplines, our partners share a belief in insights-driven strategies and a commitment to collaboration. Today, GHMC has capabilities and reach into more than 60 countries. For more information on our multi-national offering contact us.
Medius International Inc. guides successful global companies through challenging, competitive times. Their flagship product, Psychmentation™, allows them to access the most resistant layers of information that are critical to a company’s success and which traditional market research cannot overcome. Medius’ integration of market intelligence, strategic guidance and organizational design combined with energi PR’s public relations and multi-channel communications provides a powerful combination to drive outcomes.