Consulting Services
Strategic Brand Positioning: Integrated Brand Identity™ by Core Intent
The Stewardship Imperative: Duty Driven Governance™ by Core Intent
The Leadership Charge: Full Spectrum Mentoring™ by Core Intent
Organizational Change Strategy
Leadership Collaboration & Advising
Strategic Planning Advising & Facilitation
Interim Leadership Services: CEO, CMO roles
Marketing & Communications Services
Strategic brand development, implementation and management
Communications strategy
Crisis communications
Art direction & design
Collateral development
Website design & development
Social media strategy and management
Workshops
Brian speaks on a wide variety of topics, including those below. He’s happy to collaborate with you on creating a presentation focused specifically on your needs.
Your brand identity is your foundation. Build it, then build on it.
Duty-driven governance™: Govern with clarity, consistency and commitment.
Change Management: It’s happening – with or without you!
Personal Branding: Your reputation depends on it.
Integrated Brand Identity™ by Core Intent
Make your brand resonate in every decision, interaction and action you take.
Too often, organizations miss the opportunity to embrace a truly strategic approach to their brand strategy efforts. Sometimes operating with the mistaken belief that a new logo is a new brand, or a new website suffices for brand implementation, they’re unable to maximize the impact of their effort and investment.
That’s why we developed Integrated Brand Identity™. IBI™ is grounded in our belief that your organization’s cause, or reason for existing, must serve as the basis for – and drive all your work. Thus, our tagline, “Cause as compass.”
By collaborating closely with you to craft a strategic brand position that permeates every aspect of your operation, we help you ensure lasting relevance and impact. By integrating this brand position seamlessly across your organization’s initiatives and endeavors, you’re empowered to not only stand out in the present, but also to evolve and thrive in the ever-changing landscape of tomorrow.
IBI ensures that your brand identity does more than inform marketing and communications work. It ensures your brand resonates in every interaction and decision, from refining priorities to shaping policies, and from developing programs to informing advocacy efforts. And so much more.
Duty Driven Governance™ by Core Intent
Govern with clarity, consistency and commitment
Serving on a governing body is a meaningful - and highly accountable - act of leadership, regardless of an organization’s size, sector or scope. Whether in a nonprofit, governmental entity or for-profit enterprise, board members carry serious responsibilities rooted in legal, ethical and moral imperatives. These roles also bring significant personal and collective accountability.
That combination forms the foundation of The Stewardship Imperative: Duty Driven Governance™.
Grounded in the belief that governance isn’t just structural but also cultural, DDG™ helps organizations build policies and practices that align with formal duties while also addressing the behaviors and mindsets that shape governance performance. At its core, it’s about clarifying the obligation to place the organization’s best interests above all others - and to govern accordingly.
Ironically, governance is often an underdeveloped domain of leadership - not from indifference, but from a lack of time, tools and focus. Duty Driven Governance™ helps your board embrace that focus. Through a lens of alignment and accountability, we support organizations in cultivating principled, practical governance that stays centered on what matters most.
When governance is intentional, board service becomes transformative. And when board members embrace the full scope of their role - legal, ethical and cultural - they help their organizations lead with integrity, clarity and shared purpose.
The Leadership Charge: Full Spectrum Mentoring™ by Core Intent
Lead with vision, balance and accountability
Answering the call of leadership is both an honor and a weight. C-suite executives and organizational leaders are often recognized for their charisma, their vision, or particular strengths, yet no single leader embodies the entire range of skills that the role demands. The most effective leaders know not only their own strengths, but also how to surround themselves with the right team—colleagues who together wield the capacity to lead across the full spectrum of organizational demands.
That’s why we created Full Spectrum Mentoring™. Grounded in decades of executive and consulting experience, this practice supports leaders in fulfilling the breadth of their charge: from speaking with clarity and vision, to engaging boards and teams, to building structures and hiring talent that bring strategy to life.
At its core, Full Spectrum Mentoring™ recognizes that leadership is as much relational as it is operational. Every interaction—with colleagues, peers, clients, boards, and stakeholders—is a moment of engagement. Leaders who thrive are those who become comfortable in all of these contexts, who can inspire confidence while holding themselves accountable to the duties entrusted to them.
Through candid, experience-based mentoring, we help leaders develop the awareness, presence, and practical skills required to meet the charge of leadership in its entirety. By integrating vision with discipline, and inspiration with execution, Full Spectrum Mentoring™ empowers executives not just to occupy the role, but to embody it—fully, confidently, and with integrity.
Who are our clients?
We work with nonprofits, for profits, governmental entities, and NGOs—from small consultancies to Fortune 500 companies. Why? Because what we do makes a profound difference in all these types of organizations.