News
Was Covid a “Black Swan” Event? There’s a Better Question to Be Asking.
Longtime futurist Valerie Jacobs says we can better prepare for discontinuities like Covid-19 that naturally occur.
Perspectives
Fresh thinking and breaking headlines from our people.
News
LPK Helps Fitness Icon Denise Austin Launch Wellness Brand, EVER BETTER™
The celebrity brand platform debuts protein snacks—with plans to expand into more lifestyle categories.
News
Vitamin Shoppe Joins the CBD Movement with New Private-Label Offerings
Two private-label brands for The Vitamin Shoppe, plnt and Vthrive, enter the CBD space.
News
If People Think of Brand & Experience as One & the Same, Why Don't Marketers?
An integrated approach to brand development and CX drives far greater value.
News
Want a Cult-Worthy Brand? Learn from the Spirits Category
Steal the creative secrets of a category known for its fanatical followings.
News
LPK Joins New Riff to Talk Distilling & Design at Midwest Design Week
LPK and New Riff team up to talk the craft of great distilling and great design.
Event
Digital Roundtable: Talk Like a Challenger Brand
What makes for a knockout challenger brand? An outsider POV, and the ability to express it powerfully. Join us for a deep-dive discussion on brand voice with the strategy and copywriting experts.
News
Hank Willis Thomas’s
All Things Being Equal…Opens at Cincinnati Art Museum
Hank Willis Thomas’ All Things Being Equal… explores the ongoing struggle for racial equality, asking each of us to see and challenge systems of injustice in America.
Event
Digital Roundtable: Post-Blanding Branding
Join our experts to explore the “blanding” effect across the digital brandscape. Learn how to use creativity and foresight to push past it, delivering what your consumers are really craving.
POV
Reality Check: Prove Real Demand Early & In the Wild
Unlike traditional validation methods, Proto-Selling helps innovators and brand-builders prove viability early on, putting real concepts in front of real people in real retail environments.
POV
What Matters Most Right Now? Radical Empathy.
As people’s wants and needs change in the face of uncertain times, Bhavik Joshi helps brands make sense of the shifts and how to best address them—with empathy.
Event
Digital Roundtable: Taking the Creativity Leap
Join Valerie Jacobs and Natalie Nixon, PhD, author of The Creativity Leap, to discuss the forces of transformation we’re experiencing and why creativity is a critical tool for reorienting your business to the new normal—and whatever unfolds next.
Event
Digital Roundtable: The Making of Vera Health
Vera Health is demystifying the insurance experience for digitally native consumers. Join us to learn how we built the breakthrough brand and CX in tandem.
POV
Pivot Quick: A Tool to Adapt & Advance Your Innovation Pipeline
To navigate the shifts of the pandemic, Nick Partridge and Jen Dusold offer a tool to help you quickly prioritize, adapt and advance the right projects for right now.
POV
It’s Time to Become Future Fluent
2020 has presented monumental disruption, but longtime futurist Valerie Jacobs explains how we can become Future Fluent to make the most of change.
POV
Crisis Shopping: The New Retail Strategies for CPGs
Ecomm purchasing is up and consumer loyalty is way down, driving the need for new retail strategies in the face of Covid-19.
