Helping organisations unearth their corporate purpose and achieve tangible results.

Our clients say we’re transformational.

Brand Council is a strategy advisory firm specialising in brand strategy, corporate purpose strategy, and purpose-led transformation. Our proven approach and tangible results make us a long-term business partner of our clients.

Our projects include stakeholder diagnostics, unearthing a client’s purpose, brand strategy and architecture, development of EVP and CR strategy, and engaging with ELT to support them in putting purpose into practice (PPiP®).

As the regions most experienced purpose team our unique Putting Purpose into Practice (PPiP®) model is the ‘how’ that ensures you gain traction and tangible results.

More about PPiP®

Dealing directly with the owners, our consulting model delivers experience, honesty, and flexibility, ensuring demonstrable results and return on your investment.

We tailor our approach to the assignment at hand, always placing the very best people on each project. Our team and partners are highly experienced specialists in their chosen field - researchers, strategists, creative teams, and implementation specialists.

Brand Council is led and owned by Trudi Cassin and Peta Quirk.

Trudi Cassin

Managing Partner & Owner

Trudi relishes working with clients where significant transformation is a strategic and genuine priority, often due to new leadership, mergers, or market dynamics. Joining Brand Council as an equity partner in 2011, Trudi has over 25 years’ experience working in senior management roles for global agencies and brand strategy firms. Previous roles include Managing Director at Cato Purnell Partners, and eight years with M&C Saatchi where her favourite project was the global launch of 100% Pure New Zealand. In addition to her commercial work, Trudi values the time she devotes to working with Redkite and other not for profit organisations.

Peta Quirk

Strategy Partner & Owner

Peta enjoys working with clients who are ready to step into change by helping them become more connected and culturally sound, with the ultimate goal of making the business more meaningful and successful. 

Prior to becoming an equity partner at Brand Council in 2020, Peta worked in agencies in both strategy and research roles. She has facilitated large scale brand positioning projects, including communications and advertising strategy, brand health trackers, consumer research, and internal engagement programs, across local and global markets.

Peta is a graduate of the University of Sydney, having completed a Bachelor of Advanced Science and Commerce (Honours) majoring in Economics, Marketing and Biology.

Transform organisations by putting purpose into practice.

Our values underpin our purpose. They keep us aligned, engaged, and inspired.

Proudly nerdy

We love data and research, asking the right questions, academic rigour, digging deep, solving complex problems, and working with new industries. We are eternally curious. We love learning, growing, sharing, and developing ourselves and our team.

Practice what we preach

We are proudly purpose-led. We live and breathe our own purpose, values, and beliefs in our work ethic and everyday interactions. We make ethical decisions and only work with organisations that add meaningful value to the world.

Ingenuity

Imagination, innovative thinking, and creativity can change the world and we do what we can to enable it. Ingenuity drives connection, stimulation, and improvement, and often requires bravery. We are open to diverse perspectives and creative concepts that deliver sound strategic outcomes. We seek out ingenuity in all its forms.

Care deeply

We want our work to have a positive impact. We are open, honest, and vulnerable, and believe that good things come from genuine care and commitment. We care deeply about our clients as individuals and as business leaders. We care about the quality of our work, the experience of working with us, and the impact our work has on our client’s business and their staff, stakeholders, customers, and community.

Over the last 18 years Brand Council has been dedicated to ensuring our work is impact focussed. Our leading role in purpose transformation, helping to guide companies through culture change, and our commitment to supporting NFP has been rewarding.

In 2023 Brand Council became proudly BCorp Certified Corporation. We take this responsibility seriously and are committed to transparency and accountability. We work with organisations (local and global, big and small, profit and NFP) that want to transform and add value to the world.

See our Impact

What our clients are saying…

“I could not be more grateful for the partnership, expertise, approach and outcome we have had working with Brand Council on our initiative to unearth our company purpose. The combination of clear strategic thinking (and proven experience) ensured every step and milestone was planned from the outset, including ongoing engagement and alignment with key stakeholders. This included taking a truly global and people centred approach, uncovering our purpose in a way that was uniquely tailored to our organisation, perfectly reflecting the essence of TWE’s heritage, brands and culture.

Their approach brilliantly linked strategy and people with consideration and care, all while executing the project efficiently, effectively, and within budget. And we could not be happier with the result.”

Katie Hodgson

Chief of Staff and Chief People Officer, Treasury Wine Estates


“Brand Council has been instrumental in developing the DuluxGroup core purpose. They methodically and strategically worked across all levels of the organisation to capture – who we are; what we stand for; and why we do what we do – into a unifying core purpose ‘Imagine a Better Place’. The true test of their work is that, almost a decade later, our Core Purpose has endured, strengthened and is ingrained into the psyche at all levels of the organisation.”

Pat Houlihan

CEO & Chairman DuluxGroup, Chairman MCRI


“Brand Council have helped us clarify our brand architecture, reinvent Hard Yakka and KingGee, and provided strategic guidance on two additional brands. This has resulted in significant tangible results for our business. We enjoy working with Trudi and Peta and value their opinion and expertise.”

Doug Swan

Group General Manager, Workwear Group


“The key to Brand Council’s success is their process. They took the time to understand the market in which we operate, where we wanted to position the fund, and what we needed to do to reach that position. In this way, Brand Council encouraged us to discover our brand by finding and telling our own story. The most important element in Brand Council’s process is proof. They have not made any recommendations without evidence. Brand Council are genuine partners on the ‘brand journey’.”

Michael Dwyer AM

Former CEO First State Super, Chairman UNHCR, Board Director


“Together they are a great team who are hands on, taking full responsibility for the work – it is rare to find an agency as experienced and professional who will actually get in and do the work at grass roots level themselves.”

Alison Brink

GM Marketing & Communications,
Goodman Group


“Over many years, Brand Council have led three brand strategy projects for Redkite. What has been consistent throughout is a highly effective approach to brand strategy and a level of care and passion that you don’t often see. Trudi has become part of the fabric of our organisation and a trusted adviser. She puts her heart into making the Redkite brand what it needs to be so that no family faces their child’s cancer alone.”

Monique Keighery

Chief Executive Officer, Redkite


“Our staff’s enthusiasm, energy and ideas have been amazing. We have a single set of Beliefs, Values and one common Purpose – and it’s all come directly from our staff.”

Andrew Richardson

Aruma CEO


“Brand Council has continued to work with us in an ongoing capacity to define the purpose strategy for our individual businesses, including Selleys, B&D, Lincoln Sentry and Yates. They are a trusted advisor and provide sound counsel.”

Pat Houlihan

Chairman and CEO DuluxGroup, Chairman MCRI


“I have been the leading executive on a number of engagements with Brand Council including IAG, BOQ & AIM. I subscribe to Brand Council’s philosophy that alignment between the brand message and brand experience is essential for business success. It is through their refined process that I have seen the cultural and behavioural change required to not only ensure this alignment is possible, but more importantly that it is implemented. I am pleased to endorse the people and process at Brand Council and commend them to any business looking to re-engage staff and customers.”

Daniel Musson

CEO and C-suite client at BOQ, IAG & AIM


“The Brand Council team were fantastic. Our project involved months of extensive in-person and virtual engagement across the organisation – from the exec team to our staff and franchisees. Throughout the project, Peta and Trudi provided an unmatched level of strategic guidance and insight, while remaining flexible and pragmatic. It was a real joy to work with a company that matched our own high standards and absolute focus on moving beyond the ordinary to develop something truly unique. The depth of consultation completed mean our franchisees feel true ownership of and pride in our DNA, guiding principles, vision and purpose. This work will act as a guiding light for our organisation for years to come.”

Sally Chadwick

Executive Manager Corporate Communications, Events & Franchise Marketing, REA Group

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