Denise Lee Yohn

“The bigger the innovation, the bigger the risk of failure” – Denise’s Harvard Business Review article, Why Great Innovation Needs Great Marketing

If innovation is your top priority, you need marketing to make the launch of your ground-breaking product a stunning success.

Great innovations don’t sell themselves, so your organization must embrace marketing investments and actions to successfully commercialize your new products.

Brand leadership expert Denise Lee Yohn shares share pragmatic insights and actionable takeaways to inspire and empower your people. Through case studies grounded in data and results from the technology, consumer goods, and biotech/pharma industries, Denise shows how to unleash the power of marketing as a driver of product success and growth.

Continuous disruption, increased competition, a pending recession…the challenges you face are greater today than ever before and more change is on the horizon. Is your organization prepared to perform under pressure? Denise Lee Yohn shows you how to ensure it is.

Drawing upon her work with business leaders through three recessions and against fierce competition in fast-paced industries such as retail and digital technology, Denise has cracked the code on organizational readiness and resilience. She shares an informative and practical guide to future-proofing your business with a strong brand and vital culture.

Learn how to not just survive, but thrive in turbulent times.

You know how great brands dominate their fields. You experience it every time you pay a premium for a certain type of jeans or see a line of people camping out to catch the newest smartphone release. Denise shows you how to achieve rock star brand status. Drawing from case studies, analyses, and interviews with executives from the world ’s leading brands, she shows you what great brands do and how to achieve the kind of brand leadership that everyone — from customers to employees to investors — wants a piece of.

Forget everything you think you know about workplace culture! You don’t need perks and parties. You need engaged employees who produce the right results and help you build a great brand. Denise shows you how to infuse your culture with your core brand values and align your people with your unique brand identity, so you produce a healthy organization and a valuable brand.

Customer experience is the new competitive battlefield where customer loyalty is won or lost. And among employees, the war for talent is intensifying. How do you win on both fronts? Denise shows you how to align and integrate your employee and customer experiences—and unleash their combined power to fuel your growth.

How do some companies break through the clutter; compete with bigger, better-resourced competitors; and manage to grow and thrive when so many others fail? They earn customer love and loyalty through extraordinary experiences. Denise gives you the complete blueprint for creatively designing and consistently delivering customer experiences that win over customers for life. Learn how to get the edge that everyone else wants and excel at customer experience.

If you’re worried about how the role of sales and selling is changing, you need to know what the best salespeople do to succeed in this new business environment. Denise shows you that great salespeople do what great brands do. She explains how to innovate – not imitate, how to create extraordinary experiences that embody your brand, and how to cultivate strong, emotional connections with customers. You’ll be inspired to engage with clients in new ways that cut out competitors and create long-term business success. Learn why and how the most effective salespeople operate as brand evangelists – and how you too can win the new sales game.