Vocatus, a strategic communications and marketing firm serving the financial services industry, has won three industry honors, led by the 2026 Wealth Management Industry Award for Client PR Campaign of the Year.
The Wealth Management Industry Awards, known as the Wealthies, recognized Vocatus for its national campaign supporting the launch of Your Retirement Sketchbook. The campaign helped propel the book to the USA Today and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists and generated coverage across major financial and wealth management media.
Vocatus also earned two inaugural WealthBriefing Innovation in Marketing Awards: PR Agency, Marketing Campaign, Americas, for its integrated communications program for Callan Family Office, and PR Agency, Marketing Individual, Americas, recognizing Ray Hennessey, the firm’s founder and chief executive officer.
“These awards reflect the talent of our team and the trust our clients place in us,” Hennessey said. “Our goal is to understand each client’s business, develop ideas that support its growth and execute with focus. We are proud to see that work recognized across three distinct categories.”
The WealthBriefing awards centered on Vocatus’ longtime work for Callan Family Office and recognizes its multi-faceted work on media relations, marketing and industry recognition to build the firm’s visibility and support its growth. The individual award recognized Hennessey’s leadership in building Vocatus into one of the most prominent and respected strategic communications firms serving wealth management, asset management and financial technology companies.
“Ray has built Vocatus on the principles of trust, collaboration and accountability,” said Christina Diabo, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Partner of Vocatus. “His leadership empowers our team to bring strategic thinking, industry knowledge and a strong sense of ownership to every client engagement. This recognition reflects the culture he has created and the standard he sets for our firm.”
Now in its 12th year, the Wealth Management Industry Awards recognize outstanding achievements by companies, organizations and individuals that support financial advisor success. Winners are selected based on quantitative measures including scope, scale, adoption and feature set, along with qualitative measures such as innovation, creativity and user experience.
The inaugural WealthBriefing Innovation in Marketing Awards celebrate the firms, teams and individuals demonstrating outstanding creativity, innovation and excellence in marketing across the global wealth management industry. The programme has been created to celebrate organisations that are setting new standards within their specialist areas and whose achievements have been recognised by an independent panel of expert judges through a rigorous and impartial judging process.
