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Year

2022

Deliverables

Brand Strategy

Identity Development

Creative Direction

Breakthru

Breakthru Coaching & Development helps business professionals, speakers, and others seeking growth gain new insights and tools for living lives that bring them personal joy and professional opportunities. It builds on the founder's empathy and lived experiences to inspire and act on the belief that "if you're possible, nothing is impossible." By combining artistic expression and culture with decades of experience training business professionals, Breakthru positions itself to help its clients do just that.

Year

2022

Deliverables

Brand Strategy

Identity Development

Creative Direction

Breakthru

Breakthru Coaching & Development helps business professionals, speakers, and others seeking growth gain new insights and tools for living lives that bring them personal joy and professional opportunities. It builds on the founder's empathy and lived experiences to inspire and act on the belief that "if you're possible, nothing is impossible." By combining artistic expression and culture with decades of experience training business professionals, Breakthru positions itself to help its clients do just that.

Breakthru seeks to inspire beyond personal limitations and envisions a world where people are more authentic, confident, creative and powerfully present.

Challenge

Development & Performance Strategies approached us to create branding for their services, but as their original name implied, understood they needed a solid strategy to build on. As an artist seeking to shift the status quo, the founder wanted to be sure the brand felt human, affirming, and fresh while still being able to navigate and circumvent the corporate mess he fights against.

Approach

We worked with Development & Performance Strategies in our Brand Strategy + Identity Intensive. While developing the strategy that would allow them and their clients to grow, a new name was born. As a Black and queer man in corporate America, the founder shared deeply emotional insights that helped us craft a brand that seeks to pay respect to him, our founder, and other Black and queer people navigating spaces that never felt welcoming. The combination of bold and thin typography reflects resilience, softness, and the strength in vulnerability. The colors and gradients add vibrancy to corporate sterility and evoke movement and change. The brand dares you to... Break through.