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...
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Eight mistakes to avoid when rolling out your brand, 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 B2B branding, content strategy, and design agency specializing in helping tech and healthcare brave, bold, and memorable brands. Over the last decade plus, he’s worked with clients to develop unique brands and accelerate business growth. What you’ll learn about in this episode: In this episode Josh discusses the importance of a well-managed brand rollout and eight mistakes to avoid during that rollout. The mistakes he discusses include: Rolling out your brand with legal issues unresolved...
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Building Big Bold Brands, with Karley Cunningham
A Brave New Podcast
Creative Strategist & Growth Accelerator Karley Cunningham develops brand leaders by taking businesses from overcrowded, competitive spaces into blue ocean territory, where they can confidently stand out and thrive. Her international client base benefits from accelerated growth, profit and stability as her innovative Surefire Method™ provides them with an infallible business strategy and brand toolkit to stand out in the sea of sameness, attract the people their business needs to thrive, and become a brand leader in their industry. Karley’s entrepreneurial success story is featured in...
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Pipeline Marketing, with Matt Heinz
A Brave New Podcast
Matt is President and Founder of Heinz Marketing with more than 25 years of marketing, business development and sales experience from a variety of organizations and industries. He is a dynamic speaker, memorable not only for his keen insight and humor, but his actionable and motivating takeaways. Matt’s career focuses on consistently delivering measurable results with greater sales, revenue growth, product success and customer loyalty. He has helped organizations such as Amazon, Seagate, Morgan Stanley, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and many others create predictable,...
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Discussing Marketing Trends, with Kirsten Cutshall
A Brave New Podcast
With more than 20 years of experience in marketing, Kirsten Cutshall is the CEO of Austin-based Steel Advertising - a full-service ad agency specializing in marketing to the family. As a purpose-driven agency with a mission of "doing magic for the good guys" Steel' is a strategic partner, driven to produce obvious results and brands people love for who do good in our community - primarily health, education, and government programs. As a researcher and strategist, Kirsten frequently digs into the dynamics of making a decision within the family unit. Her background in Anthropology gives her...
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Designing Brand Identity, with Rob Meyerson
A Brave New Podcast
Rob works with business leaders to build identities for their organizations, products, and services. More than a name or logo, Rob believes an identity is defined by clear, focused beliefs, expressed through compelling words, and substantiated by consistent actions. His specialties include strategic positioning, naming and messaging, brand architecture, qualitative research, and organizational change. Prior to launching Heirloom, he was global head of brand architecture and naming at HP, and previously held strategy director roles at several leading, international brand consulting firms. Rob...
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A Strategic Approach To Tech, with Jon Christensen
A Brave New Podcast
Jon is the President/CEO of Phoji Inc, the creator, inventor and patent holder of the custom emoji. Jon also serves as fractional Advisor, Business Development for CTO Teammate and fractional Advisor, Business Development for Bright Bucks Inc. CTO Teammate is focused on maximizing the ROI on technology by providing fractional resources expert in their discipline. What you’ll learn about in this episode: The importance of alignment between branding, marketing, and technology Why slowing down and developing a plan for digital transformation is the best thing you can do before going...
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Public Relations Fundamentals, with Elizabeth Sutherland
A Brave New Podcast
Elizabeth Sutherland, APR, is the Sutherland of Sutherland Weston Marketing Communications. Growing up in Northern Maine, after college Elizabeth worked for the United States Senate, the American Red Cross, and Northern Light Health in increasingly complex public relations and marketing roles before launching out on her own. She is a graduate of the Bangor Region Leadership Institute and winner of the 2016 Eames Leadership Award, the Girl Scouts of Maine 2017 Juliette Award for Leadership, and a 2022 laureate of the Maine Business Hall of Fame. She serves on several non-profit boards and...
info_outlineRob works with business leaders to build identities for their organizations, products, and services. More than a name or logo, Rob believes an identity is defined by clear, focused beliefs, expressed through compelling words, and substantiated by consistent actions. His specialties include strategic positioning, naming and messaging, brand architecture, qualitative research, and organizational change. Prior to launching Heirloom, he was global head of brand architecture and naming at HP, and previously held strategy director roles at several leading, international brand consulting firms.
Rob is the author of Brand Naming: The Complete Guide to Creating a Name for your Company, Product, or Service, the most complete and detailed book about brand naming. He has also written about brand strategy and naming for leading publications such as Harvard Business Review, AMA.org, Entrepreneur, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Guardian, and VentureBeat. Rob also hosts How Brands Are Built, a popular branding podcast and blog.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- What it was like for Rob to work alongside the legendary Alina Wheeler co-authoring the 6th edition of Designing Brand Identity.
- Both Josh and Rob’s reflections on the impact that Alina Wheeler had on the brand and design communities in her lifetime
- What you can expect from the latest edition - what content has been updated and what content is new
- A few of the new case studies that Rob is excited to feature in the new edition (all 50 case studies are brand new)
- An inside look at the all the work that went into producing the latest edition
- The pros and cons of generative AI in the branding discipline
- Rob’s advice for anyone diving into the branding process for their company in 2024
When you’ll be able to pick up your copy of the 6th Edition of Designing Brand Identity
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