How I help
Building stronger brands through direction, alignment and leadership.
Drawing on 20 years of global experience across FMCG, Lifestyle and Luxury - including leadership roles in Ray-Ban, Persol, Oliver Peoples and Lipton Ice Tea - I help companies navigate critical brand and marketing decisions.
Different levels of involvement.
Different Situations
Depending on the challenge, I can facilitate a specific intervention, provide ongoing strategic guidance, join your leadership team for a defined period or develop internal capabilities.
1. EXECUTIVE WORKSHOPS
When:
Teams are not aligned
Strategic priorities remain unclear
Important decisions require buy in
Different stakeholders need a
common direction
How I help
I design and facilitate workshops that create alignment, challenge assumptions and unlock collective intelligence.
Typical Topics
Leadership Alignment
Brand Definition
Strategic Planning
Innovation
Stakeholder Engagement
2. STRATEGIC ADVISORY
When:
Leadership needs external perspective
Strategic decisions require challenge
Growth creates complexity
Teams need direction
How I help
l act as a strategic advisor to founders and leadership teams, helping them make better decisions and accelerate progress.
Typical Topics
Monthly Advisory
Strategic Reviews
Brand Direction
Growth Decisions
Leadership Coaching
3. FRACTIONAL BRAND LEADERSHIP
When:
Marketing lacks senior leadership
Growth requires stronger direction
Teams need coaching
A transformation must be driven internally
How I help
I become part of your leadership team for a defined period, providing strategic direction. coaching teams and ensuring initiatives move forward.
Typical Topics
Brand Strategy
Marketing Leadership
Team Mentoring
Agency Management
Internal Alignment
4. TEAM DEVELOPMENT
When:
Teams need stronger strategic capabilities
Future leaders require development
New ways of thinking need embedding
How I help
I I help teams develop the skills, confidence and strategic thinking required to build stronger brands and make better decisions.
Typical Topics
Training
Mentoring
Capability Building
Leadership Development
Six phases. One clear outcome: a brand defined with clarity and expressed with consistency.
We typically use six phases to find the answers for your brand. A flexible and tailored system that adapts to the brand’s complexity and the required depth.
PHASE 01.
REVEAL
Uncover what is really going on
Your brand already contains the answers. They are just fragmented across people, perception, and reality.
We surface the tensions, contradictions, and blind spots that prevent a brand from becoming truly distinctive and effective.
METHODS
Internal Misalignment Radar
COMPANY SELF TEST
Cultural Tension
CULTURAL RELEVANCE TEST
Brand Health Diagnosis
BRAND HEALTH TEST
Narrative Extraction
STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS
PHASE 02.
DECODE
Make sense of the complexity
We identify what must change — and what must not.
Iqonixs distills the tensions uncovered in Reveal into a draft strategic direction that sharpens the conversation before alignment begins.
METHODS
The Draft Direction
DECODE
PHASE 03.
ALIGN
Create shared direction
This is where your brand stops being discussed and starts being defined.
Through an intensive working session with key stakeholders, we turn tension into choices, trade-offs, and commitment.
METHODS
Alignment Lab
WORKSHOP
PHASE 04.
LOCK
Turn Alignment into a Story
If your strategy can be interpreted in different ways, it will be. We eliminate that risk.
We turn decisions into a clear brand core and narrative that can be used consistently: fundamentals, choices, value proposition, messaging, tone, and guardrails.
METHODS
Brand Blueprint
LOCK THE NARRATIVE
PHASE 05.
OWN
Turn Strategy into Ownership
People don’t execute what they don’t feel responsible for.
This is the phase where the strategy stops being “the company’s direction” — and becomes something people take ownership for.
METHODS
The Engagement Toolkit
ACCEPT COMMIT OWN
PHASE 06.
ACTIVATE
Make it Real
Most strategies stop at the deck. But it’s only where you start working.
Translating into messaging, campaign territories, real-world executions & KPIs.
METHODS
Execution
BRAND ACTIVATION
Our Services
We offer branding & marketing consulting services. But we are also equipped to organise summits & workshops, learning & development programs or corporate presentations.
We recently launched a new unique program: Uniqonixs, in which we work together with students for fresh & unbiased views of culturally aware people.
Flexibility is key. We are open to evaluate specific requests & needs
Branding & Marketing
Your brand, its fundamentals, all the way through the communication and go-to-market strategy. We are equipped to guide your brand to be strong in a constantly changing world.
In our thinking, we apply cultural branding in combination with more conventional branding methods, depending on your brand’s challenge.
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Brand fundamentals refers to the essential elements and core principles that define and guide a brand's purpose, vision & values.
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The story is the basis for the strategy. How to be culturally relevant for the consumer.
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The Positioning Statement describes the product and the consumer and how the product solves a problem/need of this consumer. The goal of the Positioning Statement is to align marketing efforts with the Value Proposition, so that it can be communicated consistently.
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The Value Proposition is a small summary that states why a consumer would want to buy from us. It describes how we are different from the competition, sometimes with an overview of the benefits of our brand.
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The marketing strategy is a Game Plan. It is a funnel of the marketing knowledge into a strategy that then will be the guidance of the marketing actions.
The strategy includes market & consumer segmentation, definition of target audiences, setting of objectives as well as budgets.
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The creation of a comprehensive plan that outlines how the brand will convey its messages to its target audience to achieve specific business/marketing objectives.
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Creating, refining, and evaluating innovative ideas to effectively address customer needs and differentiate a brand in the marketplace. Both for products/services as well as communication.
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The Brand Identity consist of all the elements that make up the brand and create the image of the brand in the consumer’s mind. The elements are both visual (colors, logo, imagery, etc.) as well as verbal (slogan, tone-of-voice, naming, etc.).
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Brand architecture is the logical, strategic and relational structure of all brands in the portfolio.
The goal is to clarify brand perception, reduce confusion and maximize market opportunities.
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Discovery & creation of the best brand collaborations
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With vast experiences in global brand & marketing management, we are happy to evaluate any challenge you might have to deal with.
Summits & Workshops
Summits & workshops are fundamental to bring your brand to the next level. We offer a full service when it comes to the content of these events. Theme generation, content creation, guest speakers and exercises. All in line with your company’s objectives.
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Based upon your challenge, we generate the workshop, including overall content and exercises.
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The generation of the title, flow and content of the summits
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Moderate your workshops, engaging and stimulating your audience to develop optimal output.
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Working together with our network to include relevant key note speakers at your summits, conventions or workshops.
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For additional needs, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Learning Programs
Ensuring you have the knowledge and ammunition to continue to lead your brand effectively in the future is our objective. We create tailored trainings to adequately train your marketing & branding teams.
We have experience in corporate training as well as university lectures, mixing theory with practical examples.
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Group sessions to deep dive into specific marketing & branding topics.
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One-to-one sessions to gain deeper knowledge on marketing & branding.
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Development of dedicated learning programs for you teams.
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For additional needs, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Corporate Presentations
Our experience will help you in both crafting your presentation as well as ensuring an effective delivery of your key objectives and messages. Applicable to both internal and external presentations. From marketing plans to pitch decks.
GET IN TOUCH
If your brand feels fragmented, unclear, or under-leveraged, that’s where we start.
Start with a conversation. We can identify the right entry point into the Iqonixs Brand System based on your context, ambition, and internal reality.