
Brand director, brand manager and marketing lead — who owns what
The role profile: competencies, indicators, place in the structure
The six layers of a brand, and which of them a reposition actually reaches
Brand equity economics: what you put at risk and what you stand to gain
What a brand audit is: internal and external, five key blocks
A four-hour audit workflow using AI assistants
Competitive analysis, and how AI models describe your brand right now
Brand health metrics: awareness, consideration, net promoter, share of search
Revisiting mission, vision, values and purpose without discarding your history
Brand architecture: what changes when the parent promise changes
The positioning statement formula and generating alternatives
Naming, if the name is going too: domain, handle and trademark checks
Visual identity: logo, colours, typography, graphics, patterns
Verbal identity: tone of voice, brand vocabulary, do's and don'ts
The brand book and how to keep it alive after launch week
Copyright of generated assets and trademark registration
Campaign anatomy: big idea, creative, channels, activation
Generating campaign concepts quickly and choosing between them
Creative production and copywriting for a relaunch
Channel mix: organic, paid, public relations, influencers, partnerships
The brand metrics framework: awareness, consideration, preference, loyalty
Building a dashboard that shows before and after
Social listening and monitoring mentions inside AI assistants
Brand equity valuation and a ninety-day roadmap
The role of structured research in a repositioning decision
The most common study formats
Automation tools
Market benchmarks to compare against
Satisfaction, loyalty and engagement studies
Experience and value proposition studies
Pulse checks and exit conversations
Cross-group interaction and leadership performance studies
Types of question and how each one biases the answer
Response options and the use of scales
Questionnaire length and open-ended questions
Platforms, and building the questionnaire step by step
Setting the question the study has to answer
Design choices that affect the response rate
Promoting the questionnaire
Reminders that work without irritating people
Report formats and which sections to include
Choosing chart types that do not mislead
Analysing open-ended answers and text analysis
Preparing recommendations rather than observations
What conclusions the answers actually support
How to plan actions from findings
Interim studies to monitor whether perception is shifting
Closing the loop with the people who answered
What company culture actually is
Whether it can be deliberately created
Why culture decides whether a new promise is believed
How culture appears, with the Netflix case
Describing employee behaviour and creating rituals
Selecting people who fit and integrating newcomers
Communicating and training on the culture
Leading by example and supporting culture through accountability, with the Miro case
What you actually want from people after the reposition
Mistakes in the culture description and who to involve
What to do with the previous values rather than pretending they never existed
Vision, mission and values, with the Tesla case
What corporate rituals are and the power of repetition
Rituals versus discipline, and the typical mistakes
Designing interview questions and using personality tests
Bringing existing employees along, with the Starbucks and Buffer cases
Physical and digital carriers: posters, site, signatures, internal advertising
Training on the new culture and using every situation to teach it
Building accountability, questionnaires and appraisal
Launch preparation, the launch itself, and how to measure culture, with the Basecamp case
Transparency, positivity and measurement
Recognition and uniqueness
Listening, and what to do with mistakes
The Starbucks case revisited
What organisational development can and cannot change
Characteristics of the discipline and what its practitioners do
The research-action model and the improvement cycle
The process model, and when to use this approach at all
How to sell the idea internally
Arranging the meeting with management and getting agreement to start
Applying project management tools to the work
Forming the team, and systems thinking
Assessing organisational needs
Assessment options: observation, interviews, questionnaires, data
Needs analysis and reporting
Delivering the feedback so it is heard
The cause-and-effect diagram
How to develop an action plan
Intervention options: individual, group, process, global
An example of a complete action plan
Coaching, mentoring and training
Three-hundred-and-sixty degree assessment and job design
The responsibility matrix and policy writing
Conflict management
Team options: dialogue, team building, process discussion, facilitation
Process options: total quality management, six sigma, re-engineering, benchmarking
Global options: working across national cultures
Working with virtual and distributed teams
Why evaluation is the step everyone skips
How to measure progress
Calculating the return on organisational development projects
The Kirkpatrick model and the balanced scorecard
The eight-step model of change
The three-phase model
Resistance to change and where it comes from
Fixing the new state in place
How people usually react to a change of name, promise or ownership
Eight mistakes companies make when implementing change
The consequences of those mistakes
What determines success, and the Kotter model
Splitting a large relaunch into smaller projects
The role of managers versus the role of leaders
Sequencing the steps so each one holds
Promoting a sense of urgency
Reinforcing the sense that the change is needed
The role of leaders in introducing change
Creating the change team
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Read this first: six of the 40 lessons are branding in the narrow sense — audit, positioning, identity, campaign. The other 34 are about the company behind the promise. If you are looking for forty lessons on logo redesign, this will disappoint you.
That is deliberate, and it is the whole argument. Rebrands almost never fail at the logo.
How a rebrand actually fails
The name changes, the typeface changes, the promise on the homepage changes. What does not change is the thing a customer meets: the same people, the same response times, the same conversation when they ask for a refund. Within a quarter the new promise is working against you harder than the old one ever did, because now the gap between what you said and what happens is visible to everyone and you paid for advertising to point at it. A reposition is a claim about future behaviour. The only question that matters is whether the claim is covered.
What a covered reposition looks like
You measure what you are before you announce what you will be — not with opinion, with a study. You decide the new position and write it as a sentence you could defend to a customer. Then you change the behaviour that has to change: what gets described as expected conduct, what rituals repeat it, who gets hired, what the service standard is, what happens on escalation. Then, and only then, you launch. The campaign is the last step, not the project.
Where this comes from
I have run repositioning and organisational change inside companies that had outgrown their own story, including Preply, Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank. Over 1.6 million people have enrolled in my courses and more than 150,000 professionals have been trained through them. I hold PHRi and SHRM-CP certifications and represent HRCI in more than ten countries. The culture section works through named companies — Netflix, Miro, Tesla, Starbucks, Buffer, Basecamp — rather than anonymous examples.
How the course is built
You start with the brand audit and the new position: identity, brand book, relaunch campaign and the dashboard that will tell you whether anything moved. Then measurement, so the reposition rests on evidence — questionnaire design, fieldwork, reading open answers, repeat studies to track the shift. Then culture, which is where the new promise either becomes behaviour or does not: describing expected conduct, rituals, hiring standards, launching and measuring a culture. Then organisational development: selling the programme, assessing the company, action planning, interventions at individual, team, process and global level, and calculating the return. Then the relaunch run as a change programme with urgency, a change team and quick wins. And finally the customer side, where the promise gets tested: journey audit, service standards, automation, escalation and the metrics that prove it is being kept.
What is included
Lifetime access to all 40 lessons and every future update
Active instructor support in the question and answer section
Udemy Certificate of Completion
Practical assignments run against your own brand
A section with additional courses, tools and resources
Why start now
An unaddressed gap between promise and delivery does not stay the same size — it widens, because every new customer arrives with the expectation your marketing set and leaves with the experience your operation gave. The audit is a day's work and it tells you how much of a gap you are financing. Enrol now and run it this week.