Purposeful Brands

Chapter - 01: Defining your brand's purpose; Chapter - 02: Articulating your purpose - how does the world need what you're selling?; Chapter - 03: Closing the 'say-do gap' - culture, competition, company and customer insights; Chapter - 04: Operationalizing sustainability and ESG across siloes; Chapter - 05: Unlocking energy through innovation and creativity; Chapter - 06: Dismantling through creative destruction; Chapter - 07: Showing up as ally, advocate or activist - purpose requires a backbone; Chapter - 08: Storytelling and data - the new language of business; Chapter - 09: Winning stakeholder buy-in for organizational and culture change; Chapter - 10: Communications for good - integrated and infinite; Chapter - 11: What's next? The road ahead

Sandy Skees (she/they) is EVP, Global Purpose and Impact Lead at Porter Novelli, part of the Omnicom Group. She has over 30 years of management consulting and strategic communications experience gained with clients including Visa, Abercrombie & Fitch, eBay and Panasonic. Named PRWeek's Most Purposeful Agency Pro of 2021, they are a Board Director of Sustainable Brands and an Advisor to The Diversity Center. A seasoned speaker on brand, messaging and sustainability, she has spoken at TEDx and appeared in Campaign US, Forbes, Journal of Brand Strategy, and PR News. Skees is based in Santa Cruz, California.