BRND helps leaders get clear before they spend more on marketing.

Most marketing problems start before the marketing.

Leaders come to us asking for a website, campaign, launch or rebrand. Usually, the visible work is not the real problem.

The offer may not be clear.
The audience may not be defined.
The message may not be landing.
The team may not be pulling in one direction.

No amount of activity fixes decisions that have not been made yet.

BRND exists to make the key calls first, then build the structure and marketing around a clear direction.

The people who scope the work are the people who do it.

Senior operators who have run this work from the inside.

The people who scope the work stay close to it - you will not be handed down to a team you have never met. Experience shaped inside Accenture, Qantas, CommBank, Clemenger and PwC.

Core leadership
Samantha Tait
Founder & CEO

Sam leads BRND and works with senior leaders to get clear on what they are trying to grow, launch, fix or shift before they invest in more activity.

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Peter Pawson
Chief Operating & Delivery Officer

30 years inside Accenture (Partner level), Colonial First State, Westpac and Telstra. Peter brings the structure and delivery discipline that turns clear thinking into work people can run.

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Specialist leads
Kate Hughes
Marketing Excellence Lead

20 years leading marketing inside L'Oréal, David Jones, bp and Asahi Beverages. Kate brings commercial rigour and senior marketing leadership.

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Sarah Whiteing
Culture, Change & Capability

Two decades inside Qantas, CommBank, IAG and PwC. Sarah helps leaders create the conditions for people to understand, trust and move with the work.

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Senior thinking across the things that move a business.

Strategy and direction, commercial thinking, marketing leadership, audience engagement and delivery experience - the senior judgement that decides what needs to happen first, what can wait, and what the work needs to achieve.