Purpose
An authentic, embedded purpose is the No. 1 cited driver of successful transformations. Leverage purpose to elevate efforts, guide and align decision making, and identify a clear human need in the world your organization can fulfill.
We unearth insights from deep within organizational history and culture, engage Luminaries to bring divergent yet relevant perspectives, and craft powerful stories and activations that turn strategy into action.
We lead with purpose but offer so much more.
An authentic, embedded purpose is the No. 1 cited driver of successful transformations. Leverage purpose to elevate efforts, guide and align decision making, and identify a clear human need in the world your organization can fulfill.
Purpose Assessment
We conduct a proprietary survey that excavates your organization’s stakeholder sentiment on top priorities and any gaps that need closing.
Purpose Articulation
We craft a memorable and inspiring rallying-cry statement along with an accompanying story that defines your organization’s timeless reason for being and why it matters to the world.
Purpose Principles
We define your distinctive strengths that, when taken together, paint a picture of who your organization is at its best.
Purpose Activation and Integration
We create a toolkit of materials and activities to launch and embed purpose throughout your organization.
Purpose Implementation
We produce charters, KPIs, and a plan to implement purpose into your organization’s key functions, regions, and processes from culture to strategy to brand.
Foster high-performing, purpose-driven cultures and drive transformation success by understanding what moves people to change. Blending meaning and enthusiasm with the science of change inspires belief and unlocks the discretionary effort that fuels transformations and talent retention.
Cultural Baseline
We excavate your organization’s cultural starting point and why it is that way, highlighting issues that require alignment or change.
Culture Articulation
We create a view of your desired culture framed around this question: What do we want our employee experience to be?
Behavior Definition
We identify specific, actionable behaviors that align to your values and desired culture to enable your organization’s strategy.
Culture Implementation
We specify and activate the measures needed to realize your desired culture, which can include defining behaviors as well as piloting ways to foster them within your operating context.
DEI People Strategy
We develop a DEI vision and narrative and ways to bring them to life through your employee lifecycle.
Employee Activation
We employ creative storytelling, unique experiences, and practical tools to enable your organization to achieve its desired culture.
Galvanize your employees through the power of authentic communication. With a powerful “why,” we enable organizations to tackle any “who,” “what,” or “where.”
Mission
We define in a succinct statement what your organization strives to accomplish every day.
Vision
We align your organization through an audacious yet achievable aspiration with a measurable destination.
Emotional Case for Change
We express the emotional “why” behind transformations to infuse energy into tackling the road ahead.
Communication Strategy
We transform traditional communications into engaging and authentic storytelling and experiences.
Investor Storytelling
We bridge the gap between investors and directors by articulating why your work matters and what it will unlock for your organization in the future.
Enable a bold shift in market position by aligning your brand to your organization’s place in culture. Make your marketing a movement, your customers loyalists, your image iconic.
Brand Positioning and Messaging
We determine customer, competitor, and cultural white space for your brand and frame key messages across stakeholders.
Brand Architecture
We manage the relationships within a family of brands and set guardrails for extending or focusing brands.
Brand Identity
We strengthen the core character, visual and verbal voice, and symbols and markers associated with your brand.
Brand Campaign
We advance memorable big ideas to serve as both a platform and a spark for a robust, brand-enhancing creative campaign.
Employee Value Proposition
We compose the core narrative that connects employees to your organization, leveraging the full brand toolkit.
Reach beyond a generic, compliance-based approach to ESG. Develop a purpose-driven ESG strategy and story that are distinctive in the market, credible to your organization, and embedded in your business.
ESG Vision
We focus ESG agendas by crystallizing an ambitious and authentic societal role for your organization to explore.
ESG Stakeholder Communications
We craft unique and cohesive ESG narratives and stakeholder message maps; then, we bring the story of your organization to life through a range of creative communications.
Bold Commitments
We establish a set of signature actions your organization can take to leverage your purpose and create a positive and lasting impact.
ESG Organizational Mobilization
We infuse ESG strategy into your organization, bringing it to life by aligning employees and inspiring them to deliver transformational change.
Lean on purpose to invent humane and holistic solutions for tomorrow’s needs. Innovate new products, services, and business-model ideas that create a clear and distinct competitive advantage.
Innovation on Purpose
We create purpose and innovation strategies that unlock a long-term, adaptable, competitive advantage.
Purposeful Foresight
We de-risk innovation by providing consumer, market, and human insights to map out possible outcomes and avoid unintended consequences.
Startup on Purpose
We empower your portfolio company and founders with tools and knowledge to harness the human side of your business, leveraging purpose in culture, strategy, and brand at scale.
Transformation Roadmap
We activate an innovation culture within your organization by using purpose-driven training that enhances the inventive capabilities of your leaders and associates.
Responsible AI and Technology
We reduce the risk of emergent, new-to-market technologies and use historical, market, and human insights to manage their deployment.
Moonshot Ambition
We help build new products and services by using human-centered design and humane holistic design to knit systems thinking and ESG into the development process.