Brand the Change

The Branding Guide for social entrepreneurs, disruptors, not-for-profits and corporate troublemakers

In a perfect world, great changemaking ventures would grow purely based on their own merit. In the real world, we have to be creative and strategic about how we brand our initiatives and get the support we need to help them grow into effective, sustainable organisations. Creating a strong brand is crucial to increasing your impact and getting the audience you deserve. Brand the Change unpacks the brand building process in practical steps. Whether you are building an innovative new product, creating a service for good, spreading a new idea, or positioning yourself as leader in your field, thinking like a brand strategist will help you to create a clear, compelling offer, develop unique brand experiences and ultimately attract and convert the right audiences. The book offers the tools and exercises to build your own brand and offers a rich array of tips from trademarking to digital marketing, and inspires with case studies of successful change making brands. The content is developed based on years of experience in building brands, conversations with dozens of changemakers and understanding what their branding challenges and need for knowledge and skills are and extensive content testing with hundreds of workshop participants. It contains 23 tools and exercises, 14 case studies from change making organisations across the world and 7 guest essays from experts.