2021 Trends and Preparing for 2022, with Josh Dougherty
Release Date: 10/27/2021
Securing Your IT - Why It Matters For Healthcare Brands, with Kevin Gemeroy
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Kevin is a fourth generation Seattle entrepreneur and small business owner who founded Dynamic Computing in the year 2000 while attending the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Over the past 20+ years, Kevin has built Dynamic Computing from the ground up into the thriving small business it is today. Kevin holds degrees in both Business Administration and Political Science from the University of Washington in Seattle. He was recognized as Washington State’s Mr. Future Business Leader in 1998 and as a Puget Sound Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree in 2018. Outside of...
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PointClickCare Rebrand, with Saige Carpenter
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Saige Carpenter is the Director of Brand Marketing at PointClickCare, where she leads brand strategy, enterprise positioning, and integrated marketing programs designed to build and protect brand equity, establish trust, and fuel buying consideration. She spearheaded the company’s enterprise-wide brand refresh and ensures the brand shows up clearly and credibly at every stage of the buyer journey. With a background in sales across long-term post-acute care, Saige brings a future-focused, commercially grounded approach to brand—rooted in real buyer insight, market understanding, and...
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Building a Cancer Center Brand / CMCA, with Meredith Rae Vehar
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Meredith Rae Vehar, MPA, is Director of Communications at Huntsman Cancer Institute. Since joining the cancer center more than 20 years ago, Meredith strives to be an agent of progress and enable others to recognize their potential. She leads a team of creative communication professionals who represent the cancer center through brand management, social media, web content and design, publications, multimedia, and internal communications. This meaningful work is very personal to her, and she sees camaraderie, sincerity, and laughter as key. Meredith earned her Master of Public Administration...
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The Intersection of Brand & ABM, with Brianna Miller
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Brianna Miller is a digital marketing leader with over 15 years of experience building data-informed strategies that connect marketing efforts to real business growth. She currently serves as the Director of Demand Generation at Cohere Health where she develops multi-channel demand generation campaigns and account-based marketing strategies. Beyond her professional roles, Brianna is dedicated to advancing the industry and mentoring its next generation of leaders. She serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, teaching Marketing Strategy and inspiring future...
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How Brand Helps Healthtech Startups Fundraise, Sell, & Scale, with Adam Taylor
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Adam Taylor is a multidisciplinary designer, illustrator, and educator with more than 15 years of professional experience in Utah, Michigan, and Seattle. Throughout his career, he has worn many hats within the ever-evolving world of design, but his strongest affinities lie in strategic brand development, UI/UX, and illustration. Adam also serves as a remote Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses on design tools, theory, and brand identity development. Outside of work, he’s an occasional exhibiting fine artist, a novice dungeon...
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Kicking off 2026, with Josh Dougherty
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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, hospitals and specialty care providers, and healthcare nonprofits. 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’s ahead in 2026 including healthcare branding trends, emerging challenges, and a glimpse into the...
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Building The Children’s Minnesota Brand, with Hillery Smith Shay
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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 more than a decade of experience in digital marketing and branding.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- What Salesforce's 2021 report revealed about how marketers feel about today's marketing environment
- How the unusual challenges of 2021 have impacted (and accelerated) marketing trends, including bringing the marketing and sales teams closer
- Why the chaos of the last few years has created both challenges and new opportunities for marketing to prove its value
- Why growth in every industry has been accelerated by the outbreak of the global pandemic, and how privacy law changes have created even greater complexity
- Why lots of high-quality data is crucial for navigating today's challenges, and why clearly defining your organization's long-term goals and strategy matters
- Why video as a content vehicle is also an accelerating trend that takes advantage of being "less polished, more human" to connect with viewers
- Why consumers are increasingly trusting and relying on artificial intelligence throughout their daily lives, and how marketers can leverage AI
Additional resources:
- Salesforce's State of Marketing in 2021: www.salesforce.com/news/stories/state-of-marketing-in-2021/
- Takeaways from the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Convention 2021 by Josh Dougherty: https://www.abravenew.com/blog/takeaways-from-maicon-2021
- Website: www.abravenew.com
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jdough/
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/a-brave-new/
- Why ABM Is Your Small Team's Secret Weapon: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/kickstart-abm-small-teams
- Get started with account-based marketing in HubSpot: https://academy.hubspot.com/lessons/get-started-with-abm
- 5 most common problems with B2B account-based marketing: https://www.impactplus.com/blog/most-common-problems-with-b2b-account-based-marketing