Kohler Brand
Standards

The Challenge
Strengthen engagement for 30K+ global associates while ensuring brand consistency, awareness of enterprise strategy goals and governance brand expression for a 150-year-old legacy brand.

Year
2023

Client
Kohler Company

My Role
Project management lead, creative strategy, and asset curator for website development.

Project Approach

  • Led cross-functional collaboration between brand marketing, corporate communications, and creative teams

  • Responsible for vendor evaluation, vetting, and selection process for website development partner

  • Supported creative team in website content development, asset audit and curation for page layouts for full website

  • Established governance framework for brand usage, voice, visuals expression and content reviews for storytelling

The Impact

  • Developed and launched centralized Brand Standards website in under 6 months including platform integration with Kohler IT.

  • Completed site training for executive leadership, 500+ marketing and communications creators globally.

  • Unified brand expression across internal and external touchpoints and strengthened our employer brand value proposition and associate engagement.

  • Enabled scalable brand governance council to supporting marketing global communications initiatives.