Beloved Brands Marketing Training

“Beloved Brands is the best marketing training that I've ever attended!”

“In all the marketing training I’ve attended during my time at Hershey, I have never seen my colleagues stay so engaged throughout the day. The Beloved Brands Marketing Training equipped our brand managers with the right tools to perform in their jobs."

Erin Grosberg,
Marketing Excellence, Hershey’s

When your marketing team is not delivering at the expected level, it reflects on your leadership

Marketing leaders tell us their teams are underperforming.

  • They have a team of smart people who are weak on strategic thinking.
  • Everyone seems busy, yet the work is not rooted in analytics.
  • They deliver tactics without a strategy or a positioning framework.
  • Brand plans try to do everything, but end up doing nothing.
  • Execution with poor briefs that do not deliver the positioning or the strategy.

The reality is that your team might not be adequately trained for their roles.

What you are seeing is more common than it should be. A LinkedIn study shows that only 32% of marketers feel sufficiently trained to do their jobs. 

Without the fundamentals and sound thinking, they might get stuff done, but are they doing the right stuff? 

After our Beloved Brands marketing training, you will see a difference in how they think, decide, and perform. 

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We build high-performing marketing teams that think, act, and perform at a higher level

Our Beloved Brands Marketing Training

🛠️ We build the essential Marketing Skills that impacts peformance

Our Beloved Brands marketing training program equips your team with the core skills required to raise performance, including brand analytics, strategic thinking, positioning, planning, and execution.

📈 Marketers will work on their own brand

We drive real performance improvement by having marketers apply every tool, method, and framework directly to their own brands. Every breakout exercise. They walk away with a good start on their brand’s business review, brand positioning, brand plan, and creative brief.

🚀 Our in-session coaching is like having a VP in the room 

Our hands-on coaching recreates real-world pressure, expectations, and decision-making. I apply the same challenging standards that your team would encounter in leadership meetings and boardrooms.

🌍 Custom-Tailored Marketing Training Programs

We tailor each program to your business model: Consumer, B2B, Retail, and Healthcare. We use industry-specific examples and case studies that make it easy for teams to apply learning immediately. They need to see their brand type so they know it works. 

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The Beloved Brands difference

Our Beloved Brands marketing training program is hands-on, intensive, challenging, real-world, and designed to elevate the marketer’s performance.

We don’t teach theory. We build capability.

Your marketing team gains sharper thinking, stronger tools, practical frameworks, and the confidence to operate at a higher level from day one.

You will see the difference in how your team thinks, acts, and performs.

“There is no other in the marketing industry like Graham, who has unpacked the marketing fundamentals with such brilliance and ease!”

Valérie Thill, Senior Director of Marketing, Mondelēz

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Beloved Brands Training Bootcamp Agenda

Day 1: Brand Analytics and Strategic Thinking

We build smarter marketers by strengthening how they think.

  • Your marketers learn how to use analytics to assess their market, consumers, channels, competitors, brand health, and financial performance. They build a deep-dive business review to sharpen decision-making.
  • They use our Strategic ThinkBox to define their brand’s core strength, consumer bond, competitive intensity, and business situation. We teach the five strategy elements that help marketers clearly communicate strategic direction.

🎯 Outcome: Marketers complete a draft deep-dive business review and define strategic key issues that focus and accelerate their brand plan.

Day 2: Brand Positioning

We show marketers how to own a space in the consumer’s mind.

  • Your team learns how to define a target that goes beyond demographics—adding accelerated needs, consumer insights, and enemies to build a complete consumer understanding.
  • They use our proven functional and emotional benefit frameworks to identify a positioning space that is motivating to consumers and ownable for the brand.
  • Marketers create a Brand Idea that aligns how the brand shows up across every consumer touchpoint, and build a Brand Concept used to test their positioning.

🎯 Outcome: Marketers build their consumer target, brand positioning statement, brand idea, and a testable brand concept.

Day 3: Brand Plans

We turn thinking into clear strategic direction.

  • Marketers learn how to build a vision that steers decisions, supported by qualitative ambition, quantitative ambition, and the three things that must be true.
  • They translate thinking into strategy statements that directly solve the brand’s key issues. Using our brand plan structure, they build clear plans across communications, innovation, and sales execution.

🎯 Outcome: Marketers complete draft vision, key issues, strategic statements, and tactical plans. They learn how to structure a boardroom-ready brand plan.

Day 4: Marketing Execution

We build confident decision-makers.

  • Marketers use our Marketing PlayBox to generate executional ideas that connect with the target, align with the brand, deliver the message, and activate strategy.
  • They apply our ABCs of Advertising to evaluate creative through attention (A), brand link (B), communication (C), and stickiness (S).
  • Your team learns our Product Innovation Process and Innovation Checklist to compare ideas and make smarter, more confident innovation decisions.

🎯 Outcome: Marketers leave with stronger creative briefs, sharper advertising judgment, and a structured process to drive winning innovation.

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Take our Marketing Skills Assessment

Imagine the impact of leading a marketing team that’s fully confident across every marketing skill—strong on brand analytics, strategic thinking, brand positioning, strategic planning, and marketing execution. 

When your marketing team reaches its full potential, you will see them deliver smarter decisions, stronger growth, and lasting success. 

Start by going through our Marketing Skills Assessment to see where your team stands today, and discover how Beloved Brands Marketing Training can help unlock their best.

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Beloved Brands Marketing Training details

At Beloved Brands, we teach how the best marketers use brand analytics, strategic thinking, brand positioning, brand plans, and marketing execution.

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Details of our Beloved Brands Marketing Training

1. Brand Analytics

When marketers don’t go deep enough on brand analytics they miss the underlying issues facing the brand.

Our Marketing Training helps your marketing team master brand analytics to drive stronger strategic decisions. Marketers learn to create comprehensive, data-driven business reviews that uncover key insights and set clear, actionable strategies for brand growth.

The brand analytics skills we build through our marketing training.

Dig into data to identify growth opportunities: 

  • The best Marketers gain a deep understanding of all relevant brand data sources, including market share, funnels, consumption, qualitative insights, VOC, and financials. Learn to use data to uncover growth opportunities.

Deliver clear, data-driven insights and recommendations: 

  • Through our sessions, marketers learn to synthesize data into clear insights, building compelling stories that lead to strategic recommendations.

Lead comprehensive business reviews: 

  • Equipped with best-in-class frameworks, marketers will conduct in-depth business reviews that define the key strategic issues, paving the way for effective brand strategies.

Write effective review summaries and performance reports: 

  • We teach how to craft precise analytical summaries to use in the brand plans and performance reports that convey the strategic implications of data, helping the brand make informed decisions and track progress.

"Graham puts the marketing training got my brand managers to see the 'what if' questions before jumping to solutions."

Doug Rozon
Director of Marketing, Henkel

2. Strategic Thinking

When your marketers jump straight to tactics, they miss the underlying issues that are hurting the brand.

Our Marketing Training empowers your team with strategic thinking skills to help them effectively frame and solve brand challenges. Using our Strategic ThinkBox, marketers will learn to ask the right questions about core strength, consumer bonds, competitive dynamics, and business situations, leading to well-structured, performance-driven brand strategies.

The strategic thinking skills we build through our marketing training.

Define the core strength and frame opportunities: 

  • Marketers will learn to identify the brand’s core strengths, understand its consumer bond, and assess competitive dynamics to uncover new growth opportunities.

Create a vision to define a better future: 

  • We guide your team in crafting a compelling vision that inspires and aligns the brand’s future direction, as a magnet for strategic decisions.

Frame key strategic issues: 

  • Through our training, marketers will master defining and prioritizing strategic issues, ensuring they focus on what’s essential before jumping into solutions.

Develop actionable strategic statements: 

  • Marketers will be equipped to build strategic programs, identify accelerators to amplify investments, and map out measurable performance outcomes that drive brand success.

“After working with Beloved Brands, I witnessed a transformation in how my team flourished. I guarantee any team will experience the same results.”

David Hersh
Vice President of Brand and Marketing
President's Choice Financial

3. Brand Positioning

Too many times, brands try to be everything to anyone they end up being nothing to everyone.

Our Marketing Training equips marketers with the skills to craft compelling brand positioning that resonates with consumers. By integrating key life moments, deep consumer insights, and understanding competitors, marketers will learn to develop balanced brand positioning statements that articulate both functional and emotional benefits, along with a cohesive brand idea that drives alignment across the team.

The brand positioning skills we build through our marketing training.

Define a precise consumer target: 

  • Learn to accurately identify and focus in on the ideal target, understanding their accelerated needs, key insights, and enemies that better connect with them.

Turn features into functional and emotional benefits: 

  • Our benefit cheatsheets teach how to translate product features into compelling functional and emotional benefits, defining a brand’s value proposition.

Create a motivating and ownable brand positioning: 

  • Marketers will learn to craft a brand positioning statement that stakes out a winning space—motivating to consumers and defensible against competitors.

Build a brand idea to steer every consumer touchpoint: 

  • Learn to create a brand idea that ensures consistency in how the brand is perceived internally and externally.

"Beloved Brands Marketing Training challenged and lifted our current strategic thinking. Graham provides intuitive templates and tools to let the teams implement and test-drive their marketing programs. Then, he follows up with crisp, constructive feedback to ensure the strategic thinking really sinks in."

Frederik Klaarenbeek
CMO, C&D Technologies

4. Brand Plans

When your marketers try to do too many things in their brand plan, none have enough resources to make an impact.

Our Marketing Training teaches the planning skills to write a strategic plan that defines how to invest limited resources to build capabilities that drive growth. They establish a vision, purpose, values, and goals that define a better future. We teach how to write the key issues and detailed strategies, and then execution plans to guide everyone on the team. We ensure that plans drive profit, linking to sales while managing the budget.

The brand plan skills we build through our marketing training.

Craft clear vision, purpose, and goals:

  • Marketers will learn to articulate a vision, purpose, and strategic goals that set a clear path for the brand’s future, aligning across teams and linking to future sales and profits. 

Develop smart strategy statements that link to financials:

  • We show how to transform strategic thinking into well-defined key issues, strategies, and tactics that align with the brand’s goals, ensuring clarity and focus.

Write and present the plan to gain approval:

  • Marketers will learn to write, organize, and present plans that can be easily communicated to senior management and partners across the organization.

Use actionable execution plans to align all partners:

  • Learn to build execution plans for communication, sales/retail, and innovation, outlining what each partner is expected to deliver to reach our strategic goals.

"Graham's Creative Brief templates and marketing training informative and game-changing for our A & E marketing team."

Melissa Gosling
VP Marketing, A & E Networks

5. Marketing Execution

When the marketing execution is not organized and aligned to the strategy, everyone who executes ends up operating in silos.

Our Marketing Training equips marketers to make decisive, effective execution choices that drive brand success. We teach them how to use our Marketing PlayBox to develop clear, focused strategies that align with the brand message, ensuring consistency across all marketing channels. Marketers will learn to craft compelling creative briefs, leading to top-notch advertising, product innovation, and in-store marketing that resonate with consumers and drive sales.

The marketing execution skills we build through our marketing training.

Write impactful creative briefs that frame the execution:

  • Our sessions teach marketers how to draft strategic, consumer-focused creative briefs that guide and inspire creative experts to deliver execution that delivers the strategy.

Make decisions on marketing execution:

  • Marketers will master our Marketing PlayBox to ensure campaigns focus on the consumer target, fit the brand strengths, deliver a clear message, and stay aligned with strategy.

Lead effective advertising and innovation:

  • Use our Creative and Innovation Checklists, enabling smarter decisions on ad content and new product ideas by providing a structured way to evaluate and refine creative concepts.

Adopt Omnichannel Marketing:

  • We introduce marketers to an omnichannel approach that ensures their execution moves consumers seamlessly along the purchase journey, maximizing engagement and conversion at every touchpoint.
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Marketing Training Client Feedback

Bush Brothers Company

I followed Graham for years and waited for the right opportunity to introduce him and the Beloved Brands concepts to a broader audience at Bush Brothers. That opportunity came in 2020 when he conducted a series of training sessions for the Marketing Team.
Despite the high standards of my colleagues, Graham has managed to impress them with his training. The Marketing Team, from top to bottom, has been fully engaged with Graham's Beloved Brands books and materials, a testament to their value.
Furthermore, the training concepts have positively impacted our business planning and internal communication processes. I highly recommend Graham.
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Robert Loggins
HR Director, Bush Brothers Company

Hearth & Home

The team at Hearth and Home Technologies had the opportunity to work with Graham on Beloved Brands management and strategy planning. Graham went above and beyond to help us think about brand management differently.
During the course of four days, we learned marketing skills that will help bring our portfolio of brands to the next level.
Moreover, Graham makes learning fun while leading the conversation with relevant thought leadership.
He’s a valuable resource and a true business partner. I highly recommend Graham to any business looking to position and elevate brand strategy.
Beloved Brands client
Jackie Schneider
VP Marketing, Hearth & Home Technologies

Hershey's

In all the training I’ve attended during my time at Hershey, I have never seen my colleagues stay so engaged throughout the day. I received feedback that they found the material spot on, delivering the right type of training and equipping us with the right tools.
Above all, the marketing team found Graham an engaging and approachable presenter. I appreciated how Graham brought his real-life work experiences into the dialogue, which helped establish instant credibility.
Brand Training client comment
Erin Grosberg
Marketing Excellence, Hershey’s

Henkel

Beloved Brands created and delivered a custom training program to meet the developmental requirements of a diverse team of Marketers.
Graham puts the training in the context of their own businesses, resulting in the real-time application of the training modules. His philosophies push strategic thinking and get people to see the “what if” questions before jumping to solutions. Most importantly, Graham challenges you to think differently making each Marketer better.
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Doug Rozon
Director of Marketing, Henkel

President's Choice

“I thought I knew how to write creative briefs and judge creative work. That all changed when I started to work with Graham. As an educator and mentor, he re-trained me on the marketing funnel analysis, how to write a succinct, tight, and compelling creative brief, how to never settle for "okay" work, and how to become your agency's favorite client. Lessons that have shaped the way I lead.
After working with Beloved Brands, I saw a transformation in how I operated and led teams. My marketing team flourished. And I can guarantee any team working with Graham would experience the same results.”
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David Hersh
VP Marketing, President's Choice Financial

C&D Technologies

"Graham made a deep, lasting impact on our marketing teams. Beloved Brands stands out because it challenged and lifted our strategic thinking.
Graham provides intuitive templates and tools to let the marketing teams implement and test-drive their marketing programs. Then, he follows up and provides crisp, constructive feedback to ensure the famous five elements of strategic thinking really sink in. The marketing training is lively, sprinkled with real-life examples of good and bad strategic thinking, marketing execution, and business impact. If you decide to work with Graham, you’ll find it’s highly engaging and a great way to build your team."
Frederick Marketing Training Testimonial
Frederik Klaarenbeek
Chief Marketing Officer, C&D Technologies

Our client list features many iconic brands across a spectrum of industries

At Beloved Brands, we’ve had the privilege of delivering our Marketing Training to some of the world’s most iconic and ambitious organizations, from global consumer giants to dynamic challenger brands. 

Our client list spans industries as diverse as healthcare, food & beverage, sports, automotive, retail, entertainment, and natural health. Whether it’s shaping brand strategy for household names like Hershey, Advil, Mayo Clinic, and Aveeno, strengthening innovation pipelines for Mondelez, Honda, and Keurig, or guiding purpose-driven organizations like the NFLPA, NBA, and National Geographic, we bring the same rigor, passion, and strategic creativity to every engagement. 

What these brands share is a desire to build deeper relationships with their consumers, accelerate growth, and unlock their team’s full potential. We are proud to have played a role in helping each of them get there.

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