Category: Culture
Monigle in the news: Forbes’ 15 trends that will impact organizations in 2023
To ensure agencies will be agile enough to pivot and evolve as needed, proactively identifying the trends that promise to have a major effect on the industry this year is...
Living at the Intersection of Brand Purpose and Culture
The notion of brands strengthening themselves by embodying a core purpose isn’t exactly new. For years now, brands have been starting with their “why” thanks to Simon Sinek. Brands are...
Monigle in the news: Infusing brand into physical space to build culture and community
Infusing brand into a space can help bring to life an organization’s core principles—its mission, vision, values, and personality—in a way that feels tangible and tactile for the employees who...
Are we building brands, or are we building cultures?
The evolution of the term “brand” has been gradual. Originally a way of staking claim to your property or creations (think livestock and paintings) – for years, branding was perceived as simply a name or a visual identity. And...
Human Brand: Guiding Principles
The brands we love most are no different from the humans we love most. Those that help us grow, heal, achieve, remember and feel. Those that are helpful and generous,...
Convergence is the key to cultural effectiveness
It is widely accepted that an organization’s culture is comprised of shared values, underlying perceptions, feelings and behaviors as well as observational artifacts – such as dress code, symbols and stories....
Enriching environmental experience, Part one: Integrating brand across your physical spaces
The importance of building brand into physical space Physical space can create an impactful experience and strong impression for every one of your visitors, customers, and employees. It’s a unique...
Disentangling Culture, Engagement and Strategy
Who we are. What we stand for. Our vision. Our purpose. Commitment to the cause. Employee alignment. Measuring impact. If you’re in the corporate world, these phrases are pervasive. After...
Individualization vs Personalization
Breaking down two must-know healthcare experience elements If you’ve worked with us, read our Humanizing Brand Experience reports, or spent time digging into the latest trends in healthcare marketing, you’ve...
A 3-Step Cure for Healthcare’s Trust Problem
Trust is an essential ingredient in the relationship between a brand and its consumers. With trust, brands enjoy increased reputation, likelihood to recommend, loyalty and advocacy—one of the most crucial...
3 Strategies for Building Consumer Trust (And What to Do if You’ve Lost It)
“Trust us.” It’s often the unspoken basis and desired outcome of every brand’s advertising and messaging across many industries. When you ask people for their money, their time, their engagement...
Brand Innovation Begins With a Culture Shift
Today, change is not just a brand buzzword, it’s a deeply ingrained human expectation. Each time we open our phones we’re thrust into a revolution — new updates, options, experiences...
How to Connect—and Stay Connected—with Today’s Emotionally-Driven Consumers
Remember when branding used to be called “corporate identity?” Back then brands were built on a pedestal—polished and professional yes, but oftentimes with an intentional distance between company and consumer....
Creating a culture of inclusion is no longer optional. It’s mandatory.
Yes, recent years have shown an uptick in social progress, and that progress has become the catalyst for more workplace inclusivity. The underlying business case, however, is becoming too compelling...
Part 8/11: Telling the Bigger Story
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. Throughout this series, we’ve discussed many of the challenging elements of executing an M&A rebrand. But today,...
Brand Change: To Refresh or Rebrand?
Is your brand having an identity crisis? Maybe the issue is only skin deep. A color palette tweak here…a better optimized for digital logo there…dash of more engaging messaging to reach...
Part 7/11: Putting Culture First During M&A
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. In today’s world, it’s impossible to separate the brand from culture. How an organization’s people act, come...
Sempra: Bringing Brand to Life in Culture
Sempra Energy is well recognized as a Fortune World’s Most Admired Company and is a leader in diversity and inclusion, being recognized as a best place to work for LGBTQ...
Leadership in the New Era of Experience
The consumerization of health care has fundamentally changed the game, and there is no going back. Now more than ever, consumers want and need authentic, human connections with their health...
What Reassurance Means for Brands in the COVID-19 Era
Part of the Humanizing Brand Experience Insights Series By: Mike Maio – Associate Director of Strategy and Luke Bemis – Senior Director of Strategy No matter the brand, business,...
Humanizing your Brand: A Guidebook
Today, as many of us still sit inside our homes, waiting for what’s next, it’s turning our point of view inward. Of course, society – as a whole, matters. But society...
How public art in NYC represents the evolving role of health care
There are countless reasons why New Yorkers love New York. One of them is the indescribable energy that flows through the streets—the constant opportunity to discover something new, be it...
Brands Making a Difference: Inclusion and Diversity
On our previous episode, we discussed how workplace inclusivity has become a requirement and how we at Monigle are building a unique culture that imbues it. While our diversity efforts...
Celebrating Health Care Heroes: Part III
We continue to be heartened by the authenticity and creativity of health care brands in their responses to Covid-19, particularly as it relates to the people and communities that power...
How we’re leaning into our culture during the time of COVID
Everything we do at Monigle starts from a place of humanity, from the desire to build brands that move people, and that includes moving one another. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise...
Celebrating Health Care Heroes: Part II
If you haven’t already, check out more examples in Health Care Heroes Series: Learn More: Celebrating Health Care Heroes in the Age of COVID-19 (Part I) Learn More: Celebrating Health...
How to Get Ready for the Future of Work
In the past three+ weeks our world has been turned inside-out, or more accurately, outside-in. As we adjust to working from home, our relationships with each other and with technology...
Celebrating Health Care Heroes in the Age of COVID-19
There’s been no shortage of gratitude across the country as non-health care people see the incredible sacrifice that health care professionals and care providers are making on behalf of our...
Brands, not governments, can be our COVID-19 cure
As we face the Coronavirus, I’m becoming more aware (and heartened, even) that brands are in a unique position to play a historical role in beating this virus. See, brands—from...
The Real Way Consumers Measure Experience Quality
Healthcare talks about quality a lot. In fact, it often feels like it is the only thing we can talk about. We define it and measure it in awards and...
Part 1/11: Intro to Merger & Acquisition Rebrand Series
Introducing Your 10-Step Playbook for M&A Rebrand Success A Merger and/or Acquisition (M&A) process is challenging on its own. Add a rebrand effort to the mix and you’ve got a...
How Peloton Came Unclipped: A master class in what happens when brand and empathy part ways
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, so begins a time for togetherness, giving thanks, and reflection. It also represents an advent of seasonal holiday adverts throttling us through...
5 of our favorite takeaways from Behind the Brands, our Brand Concierge Webinar with NN Group
What’s old can be new again. That was the goal for one of the oldest-newest brands in the world, NN Group, a 175-year-old $6B company split from ING Bank. Despite...
Monigle In the News: Forbes Agency Council – Connection, Clarity, and Action
Justin Wartell Forbes Councils Member As business leaders, we’ve done it to ourselves: We’ve built a brand. Outlined a strategy. Added a mission and vision to please a loud board member. Allowed...
Monigle Helps Position EMHS for the Future; Rebrands as Northern Light Health (press release)
After decades of growth and acquisition, Northern Light Health’s new identity reflects the transformation of both their business and industry.
Vitalant and Monigle Reimagine the Blood Donation Industry (press release)
Blood Systems, a massive national transfusion medicine organization, announced yesterday that it is changing its name and brand identity as part of a larger vision to disrupt the industry around...
“Do You Use the B Word?”: Justin Wartell On Brand
Recently our Managing Director, Justin Wartell, had the opportunity to talk brand with Nick Westergaard on the On Brand podcast. The far-ranging conversation touched on a variety of topics, from...
6 Disruptions Universal to Brands Today
Recently Kelley Grover, Senior Global Brand Manager at Deloitte, gave us an inside look at the firm’s brand practice. The professional services firm’s last rebrand took place in 2003—a print-centric, pre-iPad-and-smartphone...
What Happens When a 46-year-old Branding Agency Rebrands Itself?
Monigle’s transformation reflects the era of the assimilated brand leader. The variety and assortment of responsibilities that appear in the title of brand leaders has expanded enormously in the last...
Behind the Scenes: The Fits, Starts, and Successes of a Rebrand with the CMO of Northwell Health
“How do you position one of the nation’s largest health care systems for tomorrow’s care while retaining its roots in an industry defined by disruption?” This was the question initially...
A Merger of Equals: 5 Brand Questions for Dow-DuPont
The merger of Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. will bring together two of America’s oldest corporations into a $120 billion behemoth. The deal is just another example of the recent wave of mega-mergers...
Coca-Cola Gets Coal in its Stocking
Coca-Cola Ad Mistake Coca-Cola has traditionally been a brand that touches hearts and creates a warm connection, especially at this time of year. Many of Coke’s campaigns are pretty memorable....