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The Brave Brand

Essays, frameworks, and insights on brand strategy, design, and the future of menaingful work.

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Frameworks & Tools

You Have One Shot at JPM. Is Your Story Ready?

JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is nine weeks away. Take a deep breath. I’m here to help.

Design Is How the Future Holds Together

Frameworks & Tools

Have We Outgrown Our Own Story?

Frameworks & Tools

Am I Avoiding the Decision That Actually Matters?

Archive

Brand Foundation Series

The Space Between Briefs: On Thought Partnership and the Work That Truly Moves Us

Exploring why the best creative relationships aren’t built on deliverables, but on depth of thought.

The Caring Machine

On consciousness and care

Frameworks & Tools

The Multiplier Effect of Communication Clarity

How honesty compounds across culture, systems, and scale

Brand Foundation Series

Why Most Brand Projects Start with the Wrong Question

A systems approach that helps breakthrough organizations build for lasting impact.

Brand Foundation Series

Why Your Breakthrough Idea Isn't Breaking Through

Your innovation could change the world. So why can't you explain what makes it matter?

A Unified History of Brand vs Marketing vs Design

From the first human marks to AI integration: how meaning, persuasion, and beauty evolved across cultures and millenia