What can management consulting teach you about brand strategy work? Everything. My very first post-college job was as a change management consultant for a large consulting firm. My job was to equip people and teams at Fortune 1000 companies to adopt big changes, whether that was a new system implementation, workflow, or organizational structure. All of these projects had one … [Read more...]
Who Needs to Be Part of the Brand Project?
Your organization's brand is its reputation, essence and core. It's not just a logo creation exercise or marketing's purview from an ad perspective. It's everything your company is, offers and stands for, inside and out. Clients are sometimes surprised that when we work on a brand strategy process together, the key component is not just a marketing workshop, but … [Read more...]
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
What do you think of when you think of innovation? Do you picture a think tank of experts, crammed into a meeting room with Post-it notes on the wall, formulas on a white board, leftover pizza boxes strewn about, and crazy ideas flying back and forth? When we think of innovation in that way, it can seem daunting. What if I go into a room to innovate … [Read more...]
How You Can Look At Innovation
While all the talk of “pivoting” these days is turning into a drinking game for some entrepreneurs, it’s important to remember one important thing: As a business owner, creator, entrepreneur, it has always been your responsibility to innovate. This is not new. Show me a business that never adapts, and I’ll show you an extinct business. Show me a leader who … [Read more...]
Why Brands Need to Speak Up
With everything going on in our world – from a global pandemic to economic hardship to countless social justice and racial inequality issues, corporate brands might be tempting to adopt a “business as usual” approach and focus only on their products and services. But you can’t. And here’s why. Your business thrives on people. And your employees, customer, suppliers and … [Read more...]
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