Whatever You Do, Do it Consciously
A Stakeholder Focused
agency
We set out to fill the void between marketing innovation and our new stakeholder economy
Our success comes from the use of Ecosystem Design, which keeps us focused on strengthening relationships, articulating value, and building trust with an eye towards business results.
In a world where lots of other people do what you do, it’s not what you do but how you do it that differentiates you — and brings fresh outcomes on problems new and old.
Our Certifications
by design, not default
MISSION
We help conscious companies, the people behind them, the causes that support them, and the art that inspires them to achieve marketing improvisation. We do this using Ecosystem Design, stakeholder marketing, and conscious technology to enable deep and authentic connection — at scale — with the ecosystems they serve.
OUR VALUES
VALUES ARE TECHNOLOGY™
The combination and execution of what you value is indeed what makes your company special and worth engaging or admiring. The algorithm or technology is key to resonance and success.
THE DIRECTION, NOT THE PATH
Todays marketing requires systems thinking, not linear marketing funnels and systems of the past.
LANGUAGE IS DESIGN™
Before the designer is engaged, the dev can begin coding or the team can generally get to work, someone must communicate thinking using words. It is these combinations of words that will influence employees, customers, shareholders, clients, vendors and the world.
HONEST INTERACTIONS
Honest Interactions, we’re paid to say and do the hard things clients can’t or won’t. Even if it’s not easy for us.
YOUR EXPERTISE IS YOUR ARTISTRY
Our skill-set coupled with the way in which we execute it, is what makes us special.
IMPROVISATION IS THE GOAL
Knowing the your own or the company’s truth is what enables us to use structured freedom as our culture guideline.
ENDLESS SELF EXPLORATION
Service to ourselves and filling our own bucket is what allows deep service to and for others.
EQUITY OVER EQUALITY
Equity is the essence of great human centered design. Understanding and meeting uniuque needs.
ECOSYSTEMS NOT MARKETS
Markets and the language the goes with them are used to hide people, their intent and actions. In ecosystems, all contributors have their value. Those considered predators and plants who might seem passive have enate value to the ecosystem. As we all do.
THE VISIONEERS™
As the first Stakeholder Marketing Agency and the first Black Owned B Corp Agency, we’re leading the way.
Both from the west side (dubs up) of the country, both marketers for decades, we recognize that the world is evolving and we want to make sure that leaders, marketers, executives, founders, managers, CEO’s, executive directors and their companies aren’t left with strategy and execution that are becoming outdated, along with the consultants, firms and agencies who’s thinking hasn’t evolved with the times. Founder and the Operator, brain and heart, wine and beats, we’re here, in service of you……Consciously.
THE ACTIONEERS™
Focused Expertise Bringing Your Vision to Life
The complexity of the world today requires a new way of providing services as your marketing team. Sure, you could hire all the talent you need in-house — but in a world where the average company has 10 to 20 marketing tools and AI engineering is a skillset still being developed, you’ll never have all the talent you need under one roof. That’s why we decided to become your big tent of talent. With connections across the globe (literally) and decades of collective experience, we have the thinking and expertise you’ll need to tackle your business problems. From inclusion marketing to translation; from world-class branding to award-winning data visualizations; from mass marketing campaigns to traditional, digital and programmatic media buying — we’ve got you from Strategy to Execution.
Nica Dennis
Ops Actioneer
Jarrod Lipshy
Content Strategist Actioneer
Victor Martins
Development Actioneer
Jessica McDevitt
Content Actioneer
Use Your Agency™ Network
Your Intentional Practitioners
Back in the day, as long as you had a business card, a brochure, or a sign on the building, you were good. Now every company, small or large, needs a wide range of skillsets across all their branding and marketing efforts — and they need it from the leadership to the associate level. In this world, companies don’t get the marketing they need, they have the marketing they can afford — unless they can tap into a wide, flexible, strategy-first network centered on their holistic needs. That’s the power of the Use Your Agency™ Network. They’re your Corp of Actioneers™, ready to bring art and science to bear on your business problems.
Multiplied
Dynamic Media
Gabrielle Merite
Data informed Creative
WPI Agency
Agency Network
Firehouse Studio
Equitable Creative
Mangrove
Webdevelopment