Brands For The Future™ Strategy: Starts March 5th
Your Role Can be Bigger. Far Bigger.
A 12-week program to build a new service offer, move upstream with clients, and stop competing on price.
The design firms that will win next are redesigning how things work not just how they look or what they say.
Why the Creatives Will be The Most Important People in the Room.
Brand Strategy Isn’t Enough Anymore
This is program will equip design firms, strategists, and consultants with a structured, repeatable framework to guide business leaders through category disruption opportunities, reduce costs and environmental footprint and create a brand narritive that’s real.
Become involved earlier in businesses decision making
Understand more about how businesses really work so they can spot opportunities (real ones)
Be valued for strategic input
Increase revenue
Co-create with clients
You don’t need to be a supply chain expert you need the thinking, structure, and facilitation skills to guide the conversation.
Ready to lead bigger conversations?
Most agencies are stuck downstream
Clients arrive with fixed briefs
Budgets are already locked
Strategy has been done elsewhere
You’re asked to “just execute”
And price becomes the deciding factor
The thriving agencies are upstream
You’re not bidding against 5 other agencies
You influence the scope
You shape the solution
And you become part of the decision-making team
Where retainers live, loyalty comes from and real leverage exists.
I've worked with a handful of business coaches and programs over the years. What’s unique about Rhonda is her deep understanding of creative services — all the changes in the industry, the client base, the wide range of services companies like ours provide and the challenges we face. There is no need to explain things to her. She helps companies envision what’s possible, synthesize, differentiate, and move beyond limiting ideas of “how things are supposed to be done.” Her coaching groups provide a supportive community and sounding board.
Joy Panos Stauber, President Stauber Brand Studio
Who it’s for
Design studio founders, partners, creative co-founders, agency principals, creative business owners, strategists, branding and creative agencies, who want to move from execution-focused deliverables to strategic, high-value client work. Explore what the design firm of the future could look like. Escape the commodity trap and create a solid future for your business.
Here's everything you need to decide
✓ 12 weekly live sessions on Zoom starting March 5
✓ The Brands For the Future Framework™ yours to take to clients
✓ Brands For the Future tools and templates
✓ Private WhatsApp group for support between sessions
✓ A small, intimate cohort of peers who get it
✓ Direct access to Rhonda throughout the program
Special Founding Cohort Price: $1,800 USD or 3 payments of $600
As a founding cohort member you get direct input into the framework as it's built.
Spots are limited to keep the cohort intimate and high-impact. The next step is a 20-minute Clarity Call where we'll make sure it's the right fit for where you are right now.
Have a quick question? Email me at rhonda@knowyourdifference.com
Program outline (draft)
1. The Brands for the Future™ Framework
How brand, operations, and innovation connect
Supply Chain Thinking
Stakeholder Interviews and the questions to ask
Opportunity mapping
2. Categories Ripe for Disruption Mapping
Identify and rank categories with disruption potential
3. The Client Workshop Model
How to run this as a facilitated client engagement
Metrics that matter: cost, waste, carbon, efficiency
4. How to pitch this to clients
Who buys this work and why
Sales strategy and scripts
How to pitch this as a service offering
Includes guest experts from business leadership, supply chain, manufacturing and more.
What does the agency of the future look like?
Hired upstream. Retained. Paid for thinking.
Be brought in before the big decisions are made not after they’ve already decided what they want. Offer something unique. Become a brands for the Future Strategist.
Become the agency that stands out!
Weekly Group Calls
12 Strategy sessions designed to move you through a step-by-step process of discovery.
Collaborate with clients and peers to uncover opportunities.
Inside Brands For the Future you’ll get
Brands For The Future Framework™
Be one of the first to pilot the Brands for the Future Framework™.
You won’t just learn the model, you’ll pressure-test it, refine it, and walk away ready to lead higher-level client conversations.
Community
Unlimited messaging support via a private WhatsApp Group so you’re never stuck or unsure what to do next. Whether you feel overwhelmed by new concepts or need guidance on your next move, you can ask questions anytime and get practical, actionable advice from me and the group.
What clients have said
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We joined Rhonda’s Next Agency program and it was immensely valuable. A game changer. What we’ve been able to do is incredible because of this group. We’ve narrowed our focus, we know our niche, and we a strategy and a vertical where nobody is focusing on. We would have never got here without this program.
Bill Schwartz, Partner, Bradbury Branding
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Working with Rhonda has helped us build real momentum. We recently hosted our webinar on How to Maximize the Value of Your Annual Report and drew over 25 engaged participants, many from our existing network, plus new prospects we hadn’t reached before. We also launched our Annual Report landing page and rolled out the second phase of our LinkedIn campaign. Little by little, we’re strengthening our positioning as the Annual Report experts, and, we can already feel things moving in the right direction. Thank you again for your support. Your Next Agency Program has made a meaningful difference.
Rene Galindo, Partner, Signi
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The Stakeholder interviews I did in the Next Agency Program have reframed how I think about speaking to clients. I hate any kind of selling, and having these conversations has opened doors. Clients are brainstorming with me, and it’s their idea to work with me. It’s been an enlightening process and I’m enjoying it very much.
Richard Norris, Partner, Project 13
I’m Rhonda Page, business + creative
With 20+ years experience, I’m a graphic designer, brand strategist and business development consultant. I’ve worked on the biggest global brands and guided creative agencies to millions in revenue growth by reinventing their business models, focusing on what sets them apart, crafting tailored sales strategies and proposals that win.
My journey includes studying graphic design at Parsons in New York, Interning for April Greiman in Los Angeles, being an international speaker and trainer for HOW, AIGA and Design Enterprise Skillnet Ireland, a DBA Accredited Expert, published author (Know Your Difference), serving as CMO for two companies, launching two successful retail brands.
Don’t wait to start working on what’s next
✓ 12 weekly live sessions on Zoom starting March 5
✓ Brands For the Future Framework™ yours to take to clients
✓ Brands For the Future tools and templates
✓ Private WhatsApp group for support between sessions
✓ A small, intimate cohort of peers who get it
✓ Direct access to Rhonda throughout the program
Investment: $1,800 USD or 3 payments of $600
Spots are limited to keep the cohort intimate and high-impact. The next step is a 20-minute Clarity Call where we'll make sure it's the right fit for where you are right now.
The Brands For the Future program is not a guarantee of business success, financial growth, or any specific outcome. Results vary from person to person, and success depends on your commitment, effort, and execution. You are solely responsible for all decisions and actions taken in your business before, during, and after the program. Rhonda Page is not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including loss of income, profit, goodwill, data, or business opportunities, arising from or related to coaching. While members may operate in similar industries, this is a space rooted in mutual respect, not competition. We believe there’s room for everyone to thrive—collaboration and integrity come first.