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.
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
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
