It takes strength to compete. Becoming a well-known and well-regarded brand enhances a company's strength. Internal branding-especially in service industries-is essential for longevity, great competitive strength, and high financial value. Driven by a shared, authentic corporate culture and guided by top management, employees will build brand value in all their actions and interactions every day. Create a Brand That Inspires: How to Sell, Organize, and Sustain Internal Branding effectively addresses three core brand management challenges in readers' organizations: selling the brand to senior management, organizing the brand on all management levels, and living the brand within each of the company's internal communities. The book includes sixteen international case studies complete with pictures, interviews and examples from a wide range of industries. The long-term, hands-on experience of the co-authors and their unique perspectives on how to successfully develop and manage internal branding make this study a rewarding read for executives, managers and team leaders.

LePla and Parker created the concept of Integrated Branding in the early 1990s and have since witnessed its rapid acceptance by brand consultants and senior management teams in companies around the world. Brand Driven is a follow up to the author’s highly acclaimed Integrated Branding and, with the help of leadership expert Susan Davies, gives leaders/managers at all levels – from the mailroom to the boardroom – the necessary tools for integrating the entire organization with the brand. Full of inspiring real-life cases, the book reads like a travel guide taking the reader on a journey with major milestones, directions and reference points to show them how to: *focus every employee’s actions on delivering brand promise *create the practical tools to achieve integrated branding * ensure long-lasting customer loyalty *create short term and long term brand strategies *increase market share *focus the company’s culture, assets, practices and communications to create an integrated brand.

It takes strength to compete. Becoming a well-known and well-regarded brand enhances a company's strength. Internal branding-especially in service industries-is essential for longevity, great competitive strength, and high financial value. Driven by a shared, authentic corporate culture and guided by top management, employees will build brand value in all their actions and interactions every day. Create a Brand That Inspires: How to Sell, Organize, and Sustain Internal Branding effectively addresses three core brand management challenges in readers' organizations: selling the brand to senior management, organizing the brand on all management levels, and living the brand within each of the company's internal communities. The book includes sixteen international case studies complete with pictures, interviews and examples from a wide range of industries. The long-term, hands-on experience of the co-authors and their unique perspectives on how to successfully develop and manage internal branding make this study a rewarding read for executives, managers and team leaders.

BRAND DRIVEN "Leaders have a unique ability to not only sell a product but to deliver on a promise. Brand Driven provides a thoughtful approach to make the promise an enduring reality." Cheryl Scott, CEO of Group Health Cooperative "This book brought me a radically fresh perspective on how to think about, link, and integrate the broader concept of corporate branding into the leadership dimension of my everyday work. Reading this will help each and every manager think through the unique complexities of their business, and how to take action and lead from a place that adds value from all parts of the organization." Ronan O'Loan, Senior Organizational Consultant, Microsoft "Every organization needs to know how to deliver on its promise. Brand Driven gives leaders at every level a compass and tools for effectively working toward organizational goals and building company value." Jill Neuville, Human Resources Director, Arlington County, Virginia "The concepts in Brand Driven underline the importance of leaderships' responsibility to deliver their organization's brand promise. Brand Driven is required reading for those who seek long-term customer relationships, repeat business and a legacy of consistent profitability." Thomas Schillar, PhD, Director, Business Leadership Program, University of Puget Sound "Building recruiting and retention strategies around the corporate brand is a brilliant concept, but until now, has been overlooked, misunderstood or undervalued. LePla, Davis and Parker capture the essence of how branding drives strategic decisions, tactics and actions at every level, starting and ending with employees. This is a book that will serve as an invaluable reference for HR andrecruiting professionals." Shannon Anderson, Principal, Ignition Partners Venture Capital