Brand Development & Messaging

Building Brands that Build Relationships

DMH’s brand development discipline sits at the core of our strategy practice. It is intentionally connected to creative, content, media and insights. This ensures your brand is never defined in isolation. Instead, it is shaped within the full ecosystem where it must live, flex and perform. Our cross-trained team brings expertise in research, positioning, messaging and activation across every channel where your brand appears.

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We anchor every brand development engagement in:

Discovery

We immerse ourselves in your world. We conduct stakeholder interviews, analyze competitors, identify audience motivations and uncover the truths that define your brand’s potential.

Positioning

We distill what makes your organization unique into a clear, defensible and differentiated market position that aligns your team and guides every decision.

Messaging

We build a flexible and scalable messaging architecture that gives all communicators, including leadership, sales, marketing and partners, one cohesive and consistent voice.

Identity

We translate strategy into a unified visual and verbal system that feels modern, authentic and true to who you are today and who you want to become tomorrow.

Our Brand Development Capabilities

Strategy and Insights

  • Stakeholder and audience interviews
  • Competitive audits and category mapping
  • Brand discovery workshops
  • Brand architecture and portfolio strategy
  • Positioning development and validation

Messaging and Narrative

  • Core story development
  • Pillar messaging and proof point creation
  • Audience-specific message adaptation
  • Voice and tone development
  • Messaging playbooks and rollout support

Visual and Verbal Identity

  • Logo and identity system development
  • Typography, color, graphic language and design principles
  • Verbal identity guidelines
  • Brand standards and governance tools
  • Templates, toolkits and activation assets

Internal Alignment and Adoption

  • Executive alignment sessions
  • Employee engagement and brand onboarding
  • Training for teams, agencies and partners
  • Change management communications

Part of a Fully Integrated Brand Ecosystem

Your brand platform is:

Insight Driven

Purpose-built for activation

Supported by cross-discipline collaboration

Consistently expressed

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What You Can Expect Working With DMH

  • An experienced team dedicated to your brand and your business
  • A collaborative process that brings alignment across stakeholders
  • A brand platform grounded in research and built for long-term use
  • Tools and guidelines that make your brand easy to implement
  • A strategic partnership built to evolve with your organization

See our Brand Development in Action