Author Jackie DrydenCategories Savage ThinkingLeave a comment on Jackie Dryden featured on Ad Speaks Houston Jackie Dryden featured on Ad Speaks Houston
We love the opportunity to showcase our AAF-Houston members, and this interview with Jackie Dryden is a lesson in getting your brand out there, so it’s understood, believed and your brand advocates are telling everyone.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Conscious Leadership, Culture/Employee Engagement, Innovation, Purpose, StrategyLeave a comment on How Consensus Kills Innovation How Consensus Kills Innovation
You know the feeling: You’ve just left a meeting in which everyone has discussed a pressing issue, considered the pros and cons, and arrived at a plan for moving forward that everyone can agree with.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Savage ThinkingLeave a comment on Jackie Dryden featured on the “Recalculating for Small Business” Show Jackie Dryden featured on the “Recalculating for Small Business” Show
Listen to Jackie’s conversation on how companies build an authentic and sustainable organization and brand, on the Recalculating for Small Business show.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Branding, PurposeLeave a comment on Share Your Brand’s Story to Connect with Stakeholders and Win Hearts Share Your Brand’s Story to Connect with Stakeholders and Win Hearts
While the specifics of how you craft your company story will vary there are several fundamental elements of purposeful communication that cross all channels and media. Begin by getting your arms around your authentic story, matching your narrative with your image, and then following through with flawless execution.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Branding, Internal Communications, Marketing CommunicationsLeave a comment on Seven Stages to Brand Advocacy Seven Stages to Brand Advocacy
While most companies want tribal brand loyalty, many are unclear about how to create raving fans that believe in and support a company’s Purpose. Creating advocacy is a journey—belief and trust can’t be built overnight.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, Organizational Change/Alignment, PurposeLeave a comment on A Powerful Way to Build Trust: Align Your Organizational Operations with Your Purpose A Powerful Way to Build Trust: Align Your Organizational Operations with Your Purpose
Lack of alignment between what is said and how a business operates will quickly derail any attempt to becoming a purposeful brand, and erode trust. Even the most devout believers in a company’s why will quickly become discouraged if the way a company conducts business does not match what it professes to stand for.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, PurposeLeave a comment on Two Generations Push for Meaning and Purpose in the Workplace Two Generations Push for Meaning and Purpose in the Workplace
What is it with these Millennials? Well maybe we aren’t all so different after all. While much is written about the “Millennial effect” on the workplace, when it comes to the shared mindset of purpose in the business environment, this is driven not by one, but by two generations at opposite ends of the career spectrum—Millennials and Baby Boomers.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, Purpose, Savage ThinkingLeave a comment on Are Today’s Business Leaders Losing Their Vision? Are Today’s Business Leaders Losing Their Vision?
One of my favorite ad headlines states, “You don’t open a Bike Shop to Run a Balance Sheet.” You open a bike shop because you love bicycles. You are passionate about riding them, talking about them and sharing them with others. This is how most great businesses are started. Someone with a personal passion recognizes a need in the marketplace, takes a risk and starts a company to share their vision with the world.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Savage ThinkingLeave a comment on Does your seven-year-old self want to play today? Does your seven-year-old self want to play today?
This was not a question most people expected to be asked at the 2017 Conscious Capitalism Conference in Philadelphia. But from the moment people sat down in the big comfy armchair to get their caricatures drawn, they knew something was different.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, Savage ThinkingLeave a comment on How Purpose Changed Our Company for the Better How Purpose Changed Our Company for the Better
Savage has always been a forward-looking company – whether we were leading the way in testing technology to enhance the skills of our designers or designing websites before most firms knew what a URL was – so when we began to hear whispers about the impact of corporate purpose, we knew we wanted to be early adopters.