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Brett McCoy

Brand strategy & business building

Now: Managing Director, 4ocean

Find the human truth.Build what comes next.

I'm an insights-driven brand strategist. I find what matters to people, customers, employees, partners and stakeholders, and turn it into the brands, experiences and systems a business runs on.

Brand and strategy work for

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01Brand thinking

The signals tell me where to go. Brand gets everyone there.

I pay attention to the signals: customers, consumers, markets and competitors. They tell me where a business should go and how to move. Brand is how I get it there, in the product, the services, the culture and the way the business runs.

It always starts here

Customer, consumer and market signals

What people want, value, believe and actually do, and where the market is moving. Every decision below starts there.

  • 01

    Business

    Positioning, portfolio, offer and growth, including sustainability and ESG programs, which are brand programs with their own constraints.

  • 02

    Product

    What gets built and why. Product strategy, management and development, from the customer need to the shipped experience.

  • 03

    Stakeholder

    Employees, partners, investors and communities. The people who have to believe in it before customers ever will.

  • 04

    Systems

    The processes and tools that deliver the experience, every time.

Sustainability is a brand program with its own constraints. So is a business process. So is a product. They all come down to the same crafts.

02The craft

The craft

  1. 01

    Brand thinking

    What it stands for and why it matters.

  2. 02

    Experience design

    How it feels to the people on the other side.

  3. 03

    Process design

    How the business delivers it, every time.

03Point of view

A strategy should change what gets made.

I'm interested in the point where an understanding of people becomes a decision. What the brand stands for. What the product does. How the experience feels. What a team needs to make it happen.

The form follows the problem.

04Selected work

Different forms. The same instinct.

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Something worth building?

If you're working through a brand challenge, shaping a new experience, or looking for someone who can connect the thinking to the making, let's talk.