BRAND
What's your organization known for?
What's your story?
Creating Enduring + Effective
Organizational Brands
We create research-based organizational brand strategies, supported by compelling narratives,
designed to build trust among your most important audiences.
Why? Not simply to build, protect and strengthen reputation, but also to create differentiation,
competitive advantage and value in the marketplace.
In today's world, you have a choice:
Either create and control your story, or leave it to random circumstances to do it for you.
Behind Every Great Brand
Behind every great brand -- whether that be a for-profit company,
non-profit organization, product or service --
is a simple, powerful core brand idea,
a concept so perfectly synthesized,
so wonderfully expressed
that it not only captures the brand's value proposition,
but also communicates the brand's essence,
typically in no more than two to three words.
When created and executed properly,
the core brand idea doesn't need to be explained.
Rather, at the very sight of a master brandmark,
the core idea and all its attributes
are communicated instantaneously.
VIEW EXAMPLES
Brands, perfectly expressed.
Below are just a handful of the world's most valuable brands.
What comes to mind when you see these names?
The answer for each will come to mind quickly, so fast, in fact, that you won't need to think about it.
That's how great brand communication works. It's rather instantaneous.
To see the core brand idea behind each of the companies below,
simply hover over the brandmarks (or click if you’re on mobile) to see if you guessed correctly, or came close.
Now it's your turn.
Imagine your organization's name / logo in the box below.
What idea, concept or expression comes to mind?
YOUR LOGO
GOES HERE
What Comes to Mind When Your Most Important Constituents See or Hear Your Name?
More importantly,
what should come to mind?
Research-Informed Branding
Effective and enduring organizational branding efforts begin with research. Through research comes insights into existing brand equity and attributes, including strengths and weaknesses. Core brand concepts are unearthed and evaluated. Subjectivity should play little to no role. Getting the core brand idea right is crucial, mainly because it has the potential to serve as the foundation for all marketing communication activity.
I’ve led impactful organizational brand strategy programs for private sector companies, like Johnson & Johnson, and for non-profit organizations as well.
I’ve worked alongside some of the best branding agencies and professionals in the business.
We can do the same for you.
Let's talk about what's possible for your organization.
