BRIGHTMARK is a transformational branding company that helps organizations better grow, adapt and have positive impact in the world. We create powerful brands that drive greater business, Reputational and cultural value and make the world a better place.
Creating brands that make a difference is our vocation.
We believe in the power of art to connect, convey truth and inspire new action. We see brands as pieces of cultural art that carry vital meaning and information to people.
We are a thinking person’s branding company.
We create a brand based on a compelling idea rooted in strategic insight derived from primary, secondary and observational research. We dig deep, go off the beaten path and use a collective imagination to ask the right questions, connect the dots and explore all the elements of the market, competition, culture and future.
We take a systems approach to strategy.
We look at the whole picture, the ecosystem of the market, consumers, peers and competitors and the culture. We perform a rigorous analysis of the ecology and build a future-forward, fact-based foundation on which to develop the brand strategy.
We believe businesses are in constant transformation and that the human side needs help.
The pace of technological progress and global interconnection is disruptive, unsettling and often de-humanizing. Our brands provide a trusted constant for people inside and outside of the company, a reassuring beacon in an uncertain world.
Differentiators
Top Branding and Re-Branding Expertise. Few companies have created as many brands, or as many powerful brands, as BrightMark. We have over 65 brand cases across diverse sectors. We created the defining brand case histories in beverage (Snapple) and telecom (Qwest). Our approach, institutional knowledge, cross-disciplinary and functional expertise has produced a consistent track record of success.
Brand Ecologists. We take a systems approach to understanding how your business, market and brand work together.
Creative Business Strategists. We are entrepreneurial strategists and artists with deep business insights from working with global enterprises, large public and private companies, early stage ventures, government agencies, non-profits and visionaries.
Cultural Transformation Expertise. We believe the brand must resonate and activate within the company. We use proven methods to create a common aspiration and motivational belief system that awakens, aligns, trains and activates employees to build brand value.
Edge Dwellers. We sit at the nexus of commerce, culture and technology as we collaborate with thinkers, content creators and technologists in NYC, Boston, DC, LA, Silicon Valley and Seattle to stay at the edge of where the world is heading.
People-Centric. We focus on the human side of business.
Diggers. We like to play in the mud.
Small. We like things lean and mean. We use a small, focused core team to achieve big results.
Leadership Team
Our leadership team brings deep experience, cross-functional expertise and visionary imagination.
STRENGTHEN THE HUMAN SIDE OF YOUR BUSINESS
BrightMark CEO Jane Cavalier published this best selling book in 2021 to help companies better thrive in a complex, tech-dominant, ambiguous world where disruption is the rule. Jane outlines a new branding approach to activate today’s cautious, skittish, highly sensitive consumer, employee and investor. In this book, learn about brands that delight the imagination to produce greater personal agency resulting in favorable decisions and strong emotional attachments (loyalty) that drive growth and mitigate risk. Jane believes organizational resiliency in tumultuous times must come from people. She sees the brand as the common emotional campfire that is uniquely capable of keeping all parties united in the fight for the success of the organization.
“Jane Cavalier masterfully brings to light an advanced and unique brand paradigm. She cleverly illustrates new ways of thinking, innovating, and adapting to an ever-changing landscape.”
Debbie Rose Woloshin, Chief Marketing Officer, LVMH/Marc Jacobs
“The Enchanted Brand is a mind-expanding look at the role brands can play in our new world. It provides a powerful reflection on challenges facing humanity right now, and a toolkit for building brands that empower the human side of business for a better world.”
Jonah Berger, marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, bestselling author of Contagious, Invisible Influence, and The Catalyst
“Reading this book forever changed my view of brand and its unleashed purpose and power in today and tomorrow’s world. Truly inspiring and thought provoking.”
Robert Riney, president, Healthcare Operations and chief operating officer, Henry Ford Health System
“Jane Cavalier Lucas has written a must-read work for anyone in branding and business, with significant relevance beyond. She masterfully describes the need for shifting from dated traditional branding to ‘enchanted branding,’ which engages the human imagination like never before. Her powerful rationale and actionable steps are a game-changer.”
Stephen T. Limberg, PricewaterhouseCoopers Centennial Professor, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
“How can companies and their brands navigate our world of incessant, frenzied, tectonic shifts? The Enchanted Brand answers with a wild ride of inspirational insights and clever strategy, drawn from areas as diverse as military tactics, psychology, consumerism, and, of course, marketing. A transcendent read full of practical advice and perspective.”
Preston McAfee, Google Distinguished Scientist