How To Make Brand The Centre Of Your Organisation

Hosted by Selicia Richards-Turney

Thu, Mar 26, 2026

5:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

Free to join

50 students

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What you'll learn

The real definition of brand strategy

The difference between brand-first and transaction 1st businesses, and what it costs when you skip the foundations.

How to find the problem underneath the brief

Why the answer is rarely in the brief alone and how I use custom AI tools to surface deeper market insight.

Introduction to the Street Wise Logic strategy framework

A 3-stage model for uncovering insight, shaping strategy & expressing it consistently across product, brand & marketing

Why this topic matters

Brand strategy is not a marketing task, its the organising logic of your business. When it’s missing, everything costs more and compounds less. When it’s right, your customers do your marketing for you. In this session I’ll show how strategists uncover the real problem beneath the brief & how AI tools deepen discovery. By the end, you’ll see how strategy thinking and AI tools work together.

You'll learn from

Selicia Richards-Turney

Strategy Director at Chill Create

Selicia Richards-Turney is a brand strategist and partner at Chill Create, with over 20 years in marketing and 8 years of focused brand strategy experience at some of the most recognised and innovative organisations in the world.

She began her career in broadcast media at the BBC, Disney and Warner Bros Discovery before moving into digital media at VICE, where she led campaigns across global markets. In 2019 she joined Uber — a masterclass in what happens when a product-first organisation has to buy back brand love — before moving to European travel scale-up GetYourGuide, where she refined her strategic approach for global and cross-cultural audiences.

Selicia now consults independently, working with organisations including dentsu, Netflix, Oxfam, the V&A and Grey Finance. Her work sits at the intersection of cultural intelligence, brand strategy and business growth — helping founders, marketers and leadership teams build brands that are relevant, resilient and built to last.

Her Brand Academy Masterclass, Street Wise Logic, gives practitioners the framework and the tools to do this work themselves.

Worked at and consulted with

Uber
GetYourGuide
Taxfix
VICE
Dentsu

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