Suzanne Tulien

Is a successful brand the result of powerful marketing, innovation, timeliness, or even product development? When the economy dives, what keeps a good brand going strong? What’s the real secret to brand development growth and longevity?

With over two and a half decades of strategic communication, marketing, and internal brand development, Suzanne’s inside-out brand-building strategy creates the clarity and actions necessary for her clients to drive consistency, distinction, and engagement long-term. Because her approach is radically different, she is paving the way companies elevate their brand position and actually reduce marketing costs while growing marketshare. Branding businesses with employees, or solo-professionals, emerging leaders, consultants, speakers, or sales agents, her Brand DNA methodology is the missing piece to brand success.

She co-founded The Global Institute for Inspiration in 2011 and helped create the ‘Most Inspiring Companies Report’ now published by Forbes.com. As an international speaker and certified trainer she thrives in front of live audiences and in virtual environments such as Microsoft Live Meeting, SBTV.com, VoiceAmerica.com, and SmallBizAmerica.com among others. Her delivery is highly experiential, engaging and fun.

As author of her most recent book; "Personal Brand Clarity; Identify, Define, & Align to What You Want to Be Known For," and "The 6 Myths of Small Business Branding" e-book and co-author of "Brand DNA; Uncover Your Organization’s Genetic Code to Competitive Advantage," also published in China, she is helping to pave the transformational highway to grow by conscious, strategic design, not by default!

For 28 years, Suzanne has been passionately serving clients through strategic, internal brand development and experiential training and aligning it with powerful visual communication pieces and corporate identity solutions. Working with a dynamic marketing and training firm, she helped design and facilitate marketing training workshops across the U.S. Then, as creative project manager for the global consulting firm, she helped manage and inculcate the internal/external brand acquisitions of 13 organizations and the critical acculturation processes for all to be merged under one corporate entity.

As author of The 6 Myths of Small Business Branding, and author of and co-pioneer of Brand DNA; Uncover Your Organization’s Genetic Code for Competitive Advantage, she is helping to pave the evolutionary highway for businesses to grow by conscious, strategic design, not by default! She facilitates the Brand DNA methodology (an internal brand identification, definition and alignment process) for her clients across the U.S.

As a Brand Clarity Expert, author, and international speaker, and owner of Brand Ascension as well as award-winning graphic designer, certified trainer and certified in accelerated learning methodologies. She served as former President of the Pikes Peak Advertising Federation, and served as Vice President of Middle Market Entrepreneurs Group of Colorado Springs.

Suzanne speaks and trains all over the country and has presented for Microsoft Live Meeting, Intercall Live, VoiceAmerica.com, BetterManagement (SAS, Inc.), and WOMMA.org, among others. Her articles have been featured on www.BrandChannel.com, eHotelier, and INNOVA, and other global/national publications.