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Create a brand that sticks out, commands attention, and lives its values.
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How to do organisation, company or business branding that stands out, builds trust, engages employees, and attracts and retains customers.

Most industries are saturated with brands that tick all the boxes, don’t stand for anything, and don’t stand out. They don’t retain and attract talent, and they don’t endure.

The need to build a power brand as a core asset has never been greater. Your brand impacts every customer, every employee, and every function. This makes branding a leadership issue, not just a marketing one.

Learn real-world skills from real world experts

WHO THE COURSE IS FOR

9 Executives & Senior Managers.
9 HR Professionals.
9 Marketers.
9 Sales Professionals.
9 Business Strategists.
9 Change & Project Specialists.

Introducing… ‘Power Brand Building’ a high-impact expert-led short course

PRACTICAL & ACTIONABLE

Courses are designed to be immediately actionable. No padding, just proven, practical methods you can apply today.

TAUGHT BY INDUSTRY EXPERTS

Go beyond academic theories. Discover what works from experts with a lifetime of experience.

REAL-WORLD TOOLS & TEMPLATES

Use the same templates & tools used by the experts, learn to apply them, and compare your results with real-world examples.

LEARN WITH OTHERS LIKE YOU

Join a cohort of other proactive professionals. Make connections, form working relationships, and develop new career networks.

FAST, FLEXIBLE LEARNING

Courses are accessible from any device. They’re designed to be flexible and fit around your life so you can learn on your terms.

Course Overview

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Building Power Brands is a unique 8-module course.  It covers a practical, real-world approach for building your own power brand — from how to build your own Power Brand Blueprint to building out your Brand Strategy (on the inside as well as the outside), to making your brand happen.

In completing the course, you will learn:

A Brand New Paradigm

How branding has moved from the marketing department to the leadership team, and what this means for the way you brand your organisation or company.

Branding Mastery

How to master the skills, concepts and techniques to build a Power Brand that makes sense and is believed and loved.

Purpose-driven Branding

How to discover the true purpose of your Power Brand and make it the driving force behind everything you do and say as an organisation.

Branding the Inside

How to build a Power Brand that builds your culture, engages employees, retains and attracts talent, and shifts your performance.

Branding the Outside

How to go to market with a Power Brand-driven positioning, promise and value proposition that’s distinct, unique and compelling.
WHO THE COURSE IS FOR
N Executives and Managers
N HR Professionals
N Marketers
N Sales Professionals
N Business Strategists
N Change & Project Specialists

COURSE TOPIC AREAS

1 The Brand Guy Approach
  • About the Brand Guy
  • Making Brands Accessible and Actionable
  • Styles of Planning
  • Eight Essential Conversations
2 Branding Starts at the Top
  • Gain support and buy-in from management
  • Understand the importance of aligning brand to what companies say and do
3 Brand Discovery
  • Gather input from internal and external sources
  • Conduct research to support brand development
  • Develop your brand’s ambitions
4 Brand Distillery
  • Explore and refine brand concepts
  • Reduce a brand to its core essence
  • Build a cohesive brand story
5 Brand Strategy
  • Develop a congruent brand strategy (who, where, what, how, why)
  • Craft language that makes your brand stand out from the competition
  • Bring your brand to life with visuals

6 Brand on the Inside

  • Develop customer profiles and personality archetypes
  • Develop your brand promise and identity
  • Articulating a clear value proposition

7 Brand on the Outside

  • Aligning HR, people and culture with your brand
  • Linking company values and behaviours to your brand
  • Develop a clear employee value proposition (EVP) linked to your brand
8 Making your Brand Happen
  • Creating a brand-driven marketing strategy and initiatives
  • Creating a brand-driven culture program and initiatives
  • Measuring and tracking your brand’s performance

FLEXIBLE ENROLMENT OPTIONS

SELF-PACED LEARNING

Learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere.

LENGTH  Self-paced

FORMAT Online only

COST    AUD $395

  • Premium self-study videos
  • Frameworks, tools & templates
  • Applied  exercises
  • Expert-led live streams
  • Peer networking and collaboration
  • Instructor advice and feedback

 

Course commences on enrolment and new materials released on a weekly basis.

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COMPREHENSIVE  PROGRAM

Join a cohort of other professionals in this engaging, full-featured program. 

LENGTH  8 weeks (flexible)

FORMAT Online only

COST    AUD $895 

  • Premium self-study videos
  • Frameworks, tools & templates
  • Applied  exercises
  • Expert-led live streams
  • Peer networking and collaboration
  • Instructor advice and feedback

 

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Is this course right for me?

Power Brand Building is based on the pioneering work of The Brand Guy, Richard Sauerman. He has 35 years experience working for multi-national ad agencies and global brands, and then working for himself with CEOs and Executive, HR and Marketing teams to reboot and reshape their brands and businesses.

YOU WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE IF YOU ARE

N Leading or supporting a market-facing brand.
N Running your own business, small, medium or large, and you need a strong brand.
N Leading or support business transformation initiatives.
N Leading or supporting a brand-driven culture.
N Operating in a B2B or B2C business where branding matters.
N Working in a business or organisation that is looking at building or revisiting your brand.

WHY NOW?

  • Branding has become a critical capability (or risk) and a major source of intangible value for organisations or businesses.
  • More so than ever before, employees and consumers expect brands to walk their talk. It seems few organisations and companies are getting this right.
  • Company culture has become a key area of focus, especially for large businesses and organisations after the Royal Commission into misconduct In the Banking and Financial Services Industry.
  • On a personal level, Power Brand Building will help you to learn and develop new skills, different ways of thinking, and a greater willingness to back your own intuition.
  • Branding has never been more important.

Meet your instructor

Richard Sauerman is The Brand Guy and has been ranked in the Global Top 30 Brand Gurus since 2014 (currently ranked 9th).

He has created and worked on brands at some of the world’s greatest advertising agencies (Saatchi & Saatchi, Ogilvy & Mather, DDB, McCann Erickson) as well as in his own business, from global brands (Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Levis, Streets, Toyota, Nescafe, Vodafone) to Australian brands (Arnott’s, CSIRO, QBE, Data61, Surf Livesaving Australia, Tourism Australian, Mortgage Choice) to start-ups (LeukBook, T-shirt Ventures).

Richard pioneered a new way to do branding where everything you do and say as a company or organisation is driven by and aligned to your brand strategy: the way you do business, the way you treat employees, the way you treat your customers and suppliers, your products and services, as well as [and not just] your marketing communications. He works closely with CEOs and Executive, HR and Marketing teams to reboot and reshape their brands and businesses and he is an Advisory Board member for two start-ups.

Richard runs a successful strategy, brand and communications agency called Brandcraft, he has published two books, he appears in the media on brand-related issues, and he is a sought-after speaker who delivers keynote talks and runs workshops on Real YOU, Power Branding, Branding the Inside and Business as UNusual.

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"Richard was direct, raw, and challenged us to think about what our brand truly meant to us and helped us simplify our proposition and elevator pitch. He was engaging and ensured that the whole team felt part of the brand re-positioning process. We are now all singing from the same hymn sheet.."

— iQumulate, Head of Brand & Marketing

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"Richard is a genuine and insightful brand engineer who simplifies the hidden complexities of designing and building a modern brand. Richard has many talents but what stands out for me is he gives a shit about helping you make your brand the best brand it can possibly be by giving it the heart and soul it needs to inspire and engage your employees and customers."

— Maturious, CEO

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"Richard is a breath of fresh air to work with. He has a sharp business mind, but he also has amazing insight into human behaviour and what makes people tick. This combination makes his strategic work very powerful and on point. I have never worked with someone more inspiring, creative and brilliant."

— Sydney Jewish Museum, Head of Marketing

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"A true thought-provoking engagement that ran from top to bottom within the business and engaged all managers and staff. Highly recommend Richard to assist you and your business when thinking Brand and positioning for success."

— True Value Solar, CEO

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"Richard is the best brand strategist, creative thinker and thought- provoking motivational professionals that I have experienced, and I have met a few in my time! He is challenging, inspirational and pushes people to think differently. I would not hesitate to recommend him – he is truly brilliant!"

— Allegis Group, Managing Director Global Marketing

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"Richard is a peak performer. Driven, fearless and with energy to burn. He finds the beautiful truth and articulates the powerful story inside every organisation. He shines the light on those around him and true to his word wakes up their tigers. His genuine love and passion for what he does is contagious. "

— STW Group, Director of Brand Strategy

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"The way Richard works is unique. He is highly collaborative, but not compromising. He is lateral and imaginative in this thinking, yet deeply pragmatic. He is direct, honest but not threatening. At the core of Richard's work is his interest in people, and understanding how people think, feel, and behave. He intuitively gets what motivates and engages people, and he brought this empathy, energy, and enthusiasm to every piece of work he did for us."

— QBE, Group Global Executive Officer, People & Communications

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"Richard's personal meld of creativity and integrity will have your whole company jiving to whatever messages you want. He can grab complex business strategy, a roomful of suspicious people, and have them eating out of his hand through reflecting back an organisation's needs in a creative and passionate way. Whether it's insurance, media, not-for-profit or any business, the way Richard helps teams to realise and recognise the people drivers in their business is truly special."