Building The Children’s Minnesota Brand, with Hillery Smith Shay
A Brave New Podcast
Hillery Smith Shay, MBA is chief marketing and experience officer, senior vice president of communications at Children’s Minnesota. Hillery Shay joined Children’s Minnesota in 2021, as VP of marketing and communications and is now chief marketing and experience officer, senior vice president of communications. She provides strategic direction for organizational marketing and communications. She is also responsible for defining and building an organization-wide experience strategy. Ms. Shay brings nearly 25 years of leadership experience in health care and mass communication, with a...
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How to Nail Your Health Tech Brand Positioning, with Brad Steinbacher
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based branding agency that crafts bold and memorable healthcare brands. They have specific expertise in healthcare technology, employee health and wellness programs, and hospitals and providers. Josh has 15 years of experience building new brands from scratch, refreshing existing brands, and building strategies to bring those brands to life in the market. In this episode, Josh is joined by A Brave New’s content director, Brad Steinbacher, to discuss how health tech brands can develop distinctive...
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The State of Health Tech Venture Capital, with Tamar Rudnick
A Brave New Podcast
Tamar Rudnick is a healthcare executive who has spent 10+ years in leadership roles across early-stage, public company, and PE-backed businesses. She is currently an Operating Partner at Define Ventures, one of the largest early-stage digital health VCs with ~$800M under management and $22B in exited value. At Define Ventures, Tamar leads strategic growth initiatives. Based in Silicon Valley, Define invests in early-stage companies from Seed stage to Series B, and has backed and built some of the category-leading companies such as Livongo, HIMS, and Evolent. Define differentiates itself by...
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Brand Architecture Basics with Josh Dougherty
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based branding agency that crafts bold & memorable healthcare brands. They have specific expertise in healthcare technology, employee health & wellness programs, and hospitals & providers. Josh has 15 years experience building new brands from scratch, refreshing existing brands and building strategies to bring those brands to life in the market. What you’ll learn about in this episode: What brand architecture is and is not Why brand architecture is an essential part of your...
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Branding Fundamentals, Part 2 with Josh Dougherty
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based branding agency that crafts bold & memorable healthcare brands. They have specific expertise in healthcare technology, employee health & wellness programs, and hospitals & providers. Josh has 15 years experience building new brands from scratch, refreshing existing brands and building strategies to bring those brands to life in the market. What you’ll learn about in this episode: The basics about brand drivers We’ll do a deep dive into three specific brand drivers ...
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HubSpot for Healthcare & Sensitive Data, with Hank Lander
A Brave New Podcast
Product Management and innovation enthusiast, Hank Lander, currently serves as a Group Product Manager at HubSpot, focusing on Customer Data Protections. Hank's expertise lies in launching new products and building product pipelines. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Product at ZoomInfo and worked at multiple early-stage startups. Hank holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from MIT Sloan School of Management and a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. In this episode Josh and Hank have a conversation about HubSpot’s Sensitive Data Management functionality...
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Insights from the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer for healthcare brands
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based branding agency that crafts bold & memorable healthcare brands. They have specific expertise in healthcare technology, employee health & wellness programs, and hospitals & providers. Josh has 15 years experience building new brands from scratch, refreshing existing brands and building strategies to bring those brands to life in the market. What you’ll learn about in this episode: In this episode we take a deep dive into the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer. Specifically, Josh...
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Unpacking the Intelerad Rebrand, with Jordan Bazinsky
A Brave New Podcast
Intelerad recently completed a rebrand in May 2024. In this episode Josh and Jordan spend time unpacking the reasons Intelerad decided to pursue a rebrand, the process they followed to get there, as well as the outcomes in terms of brand essence and strategy, visual identity, and market impact. Here’s a little more about Jordan. As CEO of Intelerad, Jordan Bazinsky is committed to improving global human health through advanced imaging technologies. He is entrusted with ensuring that Intelerad’s vision aligns with their clients, and ultimately patients, in supporting their unique healthcare...
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Branding Fundamentals Part 1, with Josh Dougherty
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based agency that builds bold & memorable healthcare brands. Over the last 15 years, he’s worked with clients to develop unique brands and accelerate business growth using human-centered strategies and smart execution. What you’ll learn about in this episode: The basics about brand drivers We’ll do a deep dive into four specific brand drivers Essence Promise Core attributes Brand positioning statement For each of these brand drivers Josh explores: What the brand driver...
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Strategic Software Selection, with Rachael Radford
A Brave New Podcast
Rachael Radford has supported organizations in software strategy, selection and implementation across North America. Rachael and her team sit alongside their clients as they evaluate software needs and options to ensure they make the best choice for their business. Rachael is passionate about knowledge transfer and ensures that clients walk away not only with a successful project, but with the tools and methodologies they need to make informed strategic decisions. Her organization, Meira Consulting, is an independent software advisory firm. Clients work with Meira to evaluate systems and...
info_outlineJosh Dougherty is the CEO and a co-founder of A Brave New, a Seattle marketing agency focused on helping businesses accelerate their growth through inbound marketing, branding, and web design. He specializes in working with clients to identify barriers to their growth and overcoming those barriers with strategic content and marketing tactics. He has a decade of experience in digital marketing and branding.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- How account-based marketing (ABM) can help B2B reach high-value, long sales cycle targets in a smarter, more focused way and integrate with your overall marketing efforts
- Why you don’t need a big team or budget to start ABM, and how your existing content can be a powerful way to start testing an ABM approach
- How ABM helps you more precisely target prospects
- Why strong, well-researched data and clear insights are a vital background for an effective and productive ABM program
- How to use both qualitative and quantitative data to inform your process, and why creating your ideal customer profile (ICP) is the necessary first step
- Where to focus your efforts during the initial research phase, and what key considerations to keep in mind
- How to build a program for each of your ABM targets, and how the global pandemic has impacted outreach methods and cadences
- How to find the right balance between sales-oriented messaging and personal interactions through social media to create a 360 approach for prospects
- Why approaching people with the intent to be helpful is always the best way to generate goodwill and make yourself memorable - whether it’s through an account-based or an inbound marketing approach
Resources:
- Why ABM Is Your Small Team's Secret Weapon
- Get started with account-based marketing in HubSpot
- 5 most common problems with B2B account-based marketing
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jdough/
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/a-brave-new/
Additional Resources:
- Website: www.abravenew.com