__James Espey Author, Mentor and Philanthropist, THE LAST DROP DISTILLERS LIMITED “The Last Drop is an exclusive luxury brand whose values and future strategy Keith helped to shape and define. After conducting his own independent research, he facilitated an offsite workshop then presented us with an insightful and actionable analysis. His intellect and understanding of brands goes without saying, but it was is skill and tact in directing an enthusiastic (and opinionated) team of passionate whisky experts and entrepreneurs that impressed me the most. I have since been happy to recommend Keith to senior executives in other firms and have no hesitation in doing so here. - James Espey, Chairman”
__Karen Saddler Group Chief Communication Officer, AOG “Keith is outstanding brand strategist and person. He has a rare talent for capturing a brand’s essence, taking into account a company’s history/culture and the specifics of its industry. And he has an equally impressive ability to transform it into a creative brief for a design agency. Thorough, rigorous and creative, Keith has a brilliant mind and is an exceptional wordsmith. He quickly understands his client’s needs, and has delivered every time. He also interacts with all levels of the corporate structure, from chairperson to door person, with a natural ease and empathy. In short, a top professional who is a real pleasure to work with.”
__Louisa Phillips-Dunn Account Director, Studio Manager and Design Consultant “I have worked with Keith on a number of high-level, strategic projects and I can’t recommend him enough. Keith is incredibly thorough and informed in all of his work. He is extremely knowledgeable and always a pleasure to work with.”
_Lord Harry Renwick Information Technology and Services Consultant and Contractor “For many years Keith and I worked together to support a mutual friend in his ground-breaking endeavours to improve the management skills of British businessmen, a software that plotted a route through the maze difficulties from where one was to where one wanted to go. Keith's skills were much in evidence during the development stage, and contributed greatly to the successful outcome.”
__Glen Fraser Principal at Third Eye (ex Board Director, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising) “Keith is a rare bread of strategist - he's both smart and collaborative. From my experience you usually get one or the other! As a team we came up against some extraordinary challenges, but Keith not only made the process enjoyable but also inspiring and exciting. Use him, you won't regret it.”
__Daniel Porte Senior Executive in luxury business (ex Commercial Director, Rolex SA) “I had the chance to work with Keith as he had been appointed by Rolex to provide business consulting on the Tudor brand. Keith has been very impressive in the way he used his vast experience of various industries whilst combining it with a quick understanding of the specifics of the watch business. Keith has a rare talent of having both a global view of issues as well as a sharp analytical capacity. No less important , he has great interpersonal skills that enable him to get the best from each of us and align senior management with his recommendations.”
__Charles Clark CEO at Uffindell Strategic Branding Consultancy “Keith has developed brand strategies for several of our most important global clients in Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has an excellent ability to understand exactly what the clients‘ needs are, and to develop clear, intelligent solutions that always add value. His creative briefs to the studio have been the inspiration behind some of our best corporate identities and retail designs. He is one of the brightest brand strategists that I have worked with and I would recommend him without reservation”
__Edward Muscat Azzopardi Director at Switch Design and Brand Strategy (ex Head of Marketing & PR, Bank of Valletta, Malta) “Keith was a pleasure to work with on every level. He delivered remarkable insight into aspects of our own business, presented all his work with clarity and enthusiasm, and provided all the support we required. Add a wonderfully amiable character and a sharp wit to complete the picture! I am pleased to personally recommended working with Keith and look forward to doing so again myself in the future.”
__John Phillips Managing Director at NOHA “Keith is an outstanding brand and strategic planner with a wealth of experience working at the highest level. His powerful intellect and ability to support his concepts visually set him apart from other planners. He is also tireless in his pursuit of the best presentation for his robust thinking (I remember long, long late nights in Paris hotels sitting up while Keith was perfecting the minor details to take his work from A* to A**!). Cheerful and knowledgeable, Keith brings real gravitas to any and every strategic communications planning project. Work with him if you have the opportunity”
__Marc Jourdan-Gassin Vice President Fine fragrance International at Firmenich “I particularly appreciated the level of empathy Keith showed in supporting us to define our corporate identity. We all quickly felt he was one of ours while keeping a tight agenda on the final objective. Keith is also a consultant that listens….”
__Mark Linder Corporate Development at Cuadrilla Resources, Director of Sector Reputation at Bell-Pottinger Geo-Political “Keith is strategic, and never fails to pull his colleagues up to the level they should be in approaching the work. He has spent his life studying and working with brands and communication, and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of success and failure. He has excellent consulting skills, knows when to expand the frame of reference, and when to close it down for decision-making. I always enjoy working with Keith”
__Michael Ballard Partner, Market Strategy Consultancy. Co-author: "Rigorous Inspiration" - Unleashing An Organisation's Creative Potential “Keith delivered a valuable assessment of the opportunities for new positioning in global marketing services. Good synthesis, well reasoned, presented with a relevant and purposeful point of view.”
__Emmanuel Frenck VP Danone Global Key Account at Firmenich, Geneva. “I had the opportunity to work with Keith on the rebranding of Firmenich. I could appreciate his ability to work with everybody, his excellent creative and writing skills as well as good experience in marketing and communication.”
Vaughan Gordon Director at Vaughan Gordon & Associates Ltd (ex. Head of Marketing, RBI, Reed Elsevier) “Highly professional and personable, Keith's insight and ability to cut straight through to the heart of our issues, allowed us to find sensible, workable solutions. We are still using his guidelines today across a host of brands at RBI.”
__John Brash Founder & Chief Executive at Brash Brands "Keith and I worked together on BP global branding at Landor. He is an inspiring strategic thinker with a highly professional approach who genuinely engages with the client and studio to enable the most creative thinking and ideas to take root"
__Ian Haughton Founder and Creative Director Handsome Brands (design agency) “I’ve worked with Keith a number of times over the years and thoroughly enjoyed it every time. He has an insatiable thirst for knowledge, generally and on any project he's working on. He never gets unruffled. He's calm, responsive, funny, anecdotal (there are so many!), intelligent. A real people person he's a pleasure to work with or just to have a chat with. About absolutely anything. Oh, and he's also a very good brand consultant. Check out his CV.”
__Ian C Henderson Founder & Director at Boardroom 2.0 Ltd (business software) “Keith is highly experienced, has a great understanding of corporate marketing and branding strategies in a very wide range of industries and is very stimulating and easy to work with. His dependability and focus on the end game ensures that the right results are delivered for the client to their satisfaction.”
__Eric Collombin Deputy Director at ROLEX SA. “I have hired Keith as a Branding Consultant in several projects, including a major rebranding exercise for a global B2B company and a total rebranding process for an international software company. Keith has always been excellent at capturing the insights and turning them into actionable ideas. Keith's ability to listen to the stakeholders, embrace the brand and develop concepts is remarkable. Last but not least, Keith is a wonderful person to work with -- inspiring, witty and trustworthy”
__Francis Francis Marketing, Consumer Health Care, Switzerland “In addition to the vast amount of branding knowledge Keith brings to a project, he also adds lateral thinking and cultural insight to topics at hand. I had the pleasure to work with Keith on a rather complex (re)branding project in which Keith proved to possess a lot of patience, perseverance and most of all charm and humour, which was necessary to implement the project successfully. Keith even speaks french!”
__Francis Cholle International Business Consultant. Speaker. Best-Selling Author. “Keith offers a very solid branding expertise grounded in years of in depth work with international star brand names.He's designed his own proprietary approach to branding. Besides he has a keen sense for business strategy and is very astute and very knowledgeable in most aspects of business globally. During the assignment we worked on together he helped greatly our common client. I would recommend Keith to anyone who wishes to take their brand to the next level. Keith is the one!”
__Jonathon Hall Partner at The Ad Store “I found Keith's approach to business to be both thorough and insightful, without being overcomplicated. Keith has the knack of delivering a structured, intelligent and approachable argument, something I found invaluable in my capacity as Business Development Director.”
__Eileen HarringtonMarketing and Communications Strategist; Vice President of Marketing, Analysis Group (ex Director, Brand Management & Experienced Hire Communications, McKinsey & Company) “Keith rapidly developed a deep understanding of my firm's branding needs through studying its culture and actively listening to a number of staff across the firm's global offices. He was able to synthesize his learnings in a way that was intellectually compelling but also pragmatic and able to be implemented both by the creative team and the firm. Keith is patient, empathetic, and a pleasure to work with.”
__Chris Worsley Head of Digital and Technology Marketing at Towers Watson “Keith is the ideal brand consultant. He has a tremendous depth of understanding about brands in all dimensions whilst also recognising the practicalities of marketing in the real world. His rigorous strategic thinking encourages companies to be courageous about their branding to get it right. He is also excellent on the subtleties of branding that make for real differentiation. He is charming to work with – stimulating, supportive and always willing to help. His work at EMB has been excellent both in gaining buy-in through the process and also in delivering a very exciting end-result.”
__Julian Treasure Business sound expert, TED speaker, author of 'Sound Business', Chairman at The Sound Agency “Keith is a brand guru with outstanding ability to bring clarity, objectivity and focus to a notoriously subjective field. He has leading edge tools, unmatched experience and is a great communicator. If your brand needs a hand, talk to Keith!”
__Martin Lindstrom Brand Futurist. Best-selling Author. “Keith is in my opinion one of the UK's foremost brand planners - talented enough to have his own branding consultancy but with huge experience leading blue chip branding projects in major branding consultancies for the likes of McKinsey and BP. Enough said!”
__Mike Hill Technology marketing consultant “I have worked with Keith on a couple of projects at LUCAS brand consulting. His understanding of branding, and its implications, are without equal. He is highly professional, delivers on time and really enjoys what he does.”
__Lawrence Mitchell Global Marketing Leader & Corporate Wellbeing Champion (Group Marketing Director, RBI, Reed Elsevier) “Keith has helped us get to the heart of our magazine brands and extend them successfully across other channels.”
__Andrea Sevenoaks Marketing Director (ex The Hydrogen Group) “Keith's wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise has proved invaluable to our business over the past year. He has a tremendous ability to cut through complexity and deliver practical solutions. I recommend him unreservedly!”
__Thayne Forbes Joint Managing Director, Intangible Business Limited “I have known Keith for many years and we have worked together on a number of brand strategy and valuation projects. Keith is a great adviser, he is hard working and has deep knowledge and insight on brand strategy. I can heartily recommend him.”
Anthony Temple Managing Director of Rainbow Designs Limited and DRi Licensing Limited “I have known and worked with Keith in a variety of roles and projects for nearly 20 years. Keith is a true professional. A good strategist, committed to getting to the core of any project he undertakes, but above all else he has a passion for brands.”
__Jon Black Network Services Director at Riddle International Ltd and Automotive Consultant “Keith, Is a Brand expert with insights and wisdom that would help on any project. A good guy and is someone to work with no matter how big the challenge.”