Founder Brand & Direction

You’ve built more than people can see.

You know what you’ve done and what you’re capable of. But your website, the way you introduce yourself, or the name people associate with you may only tell part of the story.

I help founders get clear on the full value of their work and build the brand presence for where they’re going next.

Focused projects from £3,000.

Strategy, story and a focused public presence, shaped and built with Korrine Sky.

The problem

When your story no longer fits in one sentence

You may be starting a venture and struggling to bring the idea into focus. You may have a successful business, but people know the business better than they know you. Or you may have built across several fields and still get introduced by only one of them.

When the story is unclear, you end up explaining yourself from scratch in every meeting. Someone can admire your work and still miss what they could hire you for, invite you into or build with you.

You need a clearer way to show them.

Korrine Sky speaking at The Executive Branch

My approach

I see the thread, then help you build from it.

I’ve built consumer businesses, studied medicine, organised humanitarian work and led projects across entertainment, culture and international partnerships. Those chapters make sense together when I tell the full story.

That experience has given me a particular eye for founders whose work has grown beyond its first description. I listen closely, recognise the strengths and possibilities they may be too close to see, and help them decide what to build next.

Then I work with them to make that direction visible through their positioning, words, identity and public platform.

My experience in entertainment, diaspora communities and cultural diplomacy gives me a strong understanding of what it takes for someone’s work to travel into new rooms. The same approach serves a founder building a business, a public voice, a community or something that brings all three together.

The method

Clarity → Credibility → Connection™

Clarity

We examine your work, ambitions, audience and opportunities. We decide what you want to be known for and what you’re offering now.

Credibility

I shape the story, messages and evidence that help people understand the substance behind your work. We decide what needs to be said, shown and built.

Connection

We turn that strategy into a focused public presence that gives the right people a clear next step.

This is a working process. We make decisions together, then put them into use.

The offer

Founder Brand & Direction

A focused project that brings your direction, founder story and essential public presence together.

The £3,000 project includes

A discovery session and review of your existing brand and materials
A concise positioning document covering your direction, audience, founder story, key messages and immediate priorities
Copy, design and build of a focused website of up to three pages
One consolidated round of revisions and a handover session

If you already have a suitable website, we can agree on an equivalent set of assets that serves your goal before the project begins.

Projects usually take around two weeks once the scope is agreed and the necessary materials are ready. The pages, deliverables and timeline are confirmed in writing before work starts.

A larger website, full visual identity, photography, campaign or ongoing advisory can be scoped separately. Third-party costs are agreed before they are incurred.

Proof

The work takes different shapes for different founders.

Ruth Kudzai

Making the leader and the vision visible

Ruth was building more than a series of events. I helped articulate her position as a leader and shape a connected vision for The Executive Branch. We carried that thinking into her personal brand, photoshoot, website and the projects growing around EB. Her public presence now gives people a clearer way to understand the leader behind the work and the ecosystem she is building.

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Dr Faye Bate

Making expertise unmistakable

Faye had an audience and wanted her expertise as a doctor to lead. I helped reshape her public positioning around women’s health, with a stronger bio, clearer editorial territory, long-form content and a launch strategy for her HERd podcast. The podcast launched with a defined point of view in a crowded space.

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MAKO Studios brand artwork

Tafara Makopa

Giving a new venture its own identity

As Tafara built MAKO Studios, I helped shape its position, identity and commercial direction. The work grew into its offer, partnerships, talent and the way the studio brings people together. MAKO became a business people could recognise and engage with on its own terms.

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Dr King SMADE

Giving a legacy its full public story

In my work with Dr King, before and alongside my role at SMADE Group, I helped bring more than two decades of cultural work into a coherent public platform. I developed his story, website and materials for speaking, partners and institutions, while working with him on the cultural diplomacy direction that is now a visible part of his work.

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Fit

Is this the work you need?

This project is for founders ready to make decisions about their direction and put those decisions into the world. You may have an idea to bring to life, an established business that no longer reflects your ambition, or a body of work people don’t yet understand as a whole.

If you only need a standalone logo, this is unlikely to be the right project. If you need someone to see the bigger picture with you and help you build from it, tell me where you are.

Enquiry

Tell me what you’re building.

Share what you’ve built so far, what’s changing, and what you want people to understand about your work next. I’ll review your enquiry and let you know whether Founder Brand & Direction is a good fit.

Have one specific decision to make first?

The £500 Strategy Intensive is a focused session for one question, with written next steps.

Explore the Strategy Intensive