Thought Leadership & Opinion

A Climate Week 2023 Imperative for Brands: Navigating Purpose and Sustainability

Over the past week, I’ve had many robust conversations with brand leaders about the interplay between purpose and sustainability at Climate Week events. With the spotlight increasingly on our planet's most pressing issues—rising temperatures, dwindling resources and...

Our Collective Memory: The evolution of 9/11 twenty-two years later

As we mark the 22nd anniversary of the September 11th attacks, the phrase Never Forget is still etched into our collective memory. Yet, as time has marched on, 9/11 is retreating into the annals of history much like December 7th, when the Pearl Harbor attacks...

Human Connection Unplugged: Lessons for Brands

"What do you do when you're on a train for a day of meetings in the big city and discover you don’t have your phone...?" That's the question that I was forced to consider the other day on my journey from Connecticut’s Eastern Shoreline to New York City. And doing so...

Purpose Is Growing Up: The Inseparable Connection with Product Quality

When Unilever’s new CEO Hein Schumacher recently announced that the company is emphasizing product quality to grow margins and volume, many marketers took it as big news…. Could this mean that performance marketing has triumphed and the focus on purpose is over? Given...