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POWER OF BRAND STORY
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Financial Investments & Strategic Advisors
Burt's creative imagination and unique ability to listen, interpret and design story is remarkable. His work ethic and experience brought us to another level. He’s in a category of his own. Like no other I’ve met.
Jim Pupillo
HighTower Investor Advisors
Director & Managing Partner
Creative Agencies
Burt gets imaginative ideas and insightful concepts with a wisdom, clarity and brutal honesty of a brand story guru. If you're willing to see an expansive vision of yourself then he's your secret weapon.
Steve Price
Creative Director, Producer & Writer
Software & Technology
Burt is a creative visionary as a brand strategist and storyteller. He gets the big picture instinctively. He’s one of the most engaging and interesting people I know. He truly shifted and elevated how we saw ourselves and others embraced us. Definitely respected game changer.
Charlie Wilson
SVP, Sales & Marketing
AppWorx Software Corporation
Infrastructure & Energy
Highly impressed with Burt's energy,
creative instincts and interpersonal skills that drew out the best of our very diverse leadership group. He’s an intuitive with an uncanny ability to intuit streams of cross disciplines
into inspired characters that told our stories differently. Transformational.
Scott Omer, PTP
Director, Arizona Department of Transportation - Multimodal Planning Division.
Video Scripts & Story Productions
Burt is the ultimate professional. He's a strategically creative, big picture thinker, insightful storyteller and visionary writer. Our creative agency really enjoyed working with him. His story-driven video production scripts were succinct and visceral. Our client, Toyota Lexus, loved them!
Louise Parker
President & Executive Director
BLADE, Inc.
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Mark Trengove
Vice President, Senior Editor & Colorist
BLADE, Inc.
Software & Manufacturer
Burt offers unique investigative listening skills with fearless instincts. He brought a new bold, confident, strategically creative
energy to our culture which resulted in years of high growth. Burt was everything we were not, which was exactly what we needed.
Dan McCall & Bill Wrenn
CFO & CEO
AppWorx Corporation
Heavy Civil Engineering &
Construction Management
Burt is a gifted communicator with a unique ability to work the big picture, and strategic vision with a diverse cultural and leadership team. He’s effective distilling lots of information and simplifying down to its essence. He created an innovative brand story that shifted and empowered our marketing and culture.
Senior Executive Leadership Team
Phoenix, AZ
Video Production Studio & Multimedia Services
Burt is a true visionary with a genuine gift as a brand strategist and creative story development guru. He has an uncanny ability to identify a cast of characters who would tell our story with simple, yet compelling narratives. Burt listens really well, has great instincts and disciplined work ethic.
Marco Trevino Martinez
Founder, Owner & Creative Director
Echo Earth Media
Lexus IS Introduction & Apple iPad App
It was a pleasure to work with Burt on the Lexus IS introduction into the USA markets. His outstanding work ethic, energy, creative brand story and video script writing skills were invaluable to our strategic partnership with Toyota Lexus. Greatly respected by all of us
Michael Thiel
Vice President / Imaginator
OMGineering: Design & Interactive
Automätik
Custom Design & Build Construction Services
Burt’s energetic ability facilitated our broad visioning discussions. He was able to extract the most relevant insights to capture our essence, purpose and difference. He was able to synthesize our work into emotionally impactful truths with compelling stories. He was kindly infectious, genuine and truly invaluable.
Lorenzo Perez & Jon Kitchel
Principals & Co-Owners
Venue Builders & Venue Projects
Global Manufacturers - Renewable Energy Technologies
Burt worked very closely with both of our global companies' senior executive teams. He created our brand story identities and strategies, produced all our core messaging and digital content for our Manufacturing & Project Development companies.
We attracted world-class talent, capital investment and secured major utility-grid scale solar projects. Really impressive person and work!
Steve Cowman
CEO, Stirling Energy Systems (SES)
Robert Lukefahr
CEO, Tessera Solar
Healthcare
We needed a fresh way to engage our best clients at our Annual Cigna National Account Client Conference. We selected Burt as our brand story consultant strategist. Produced and directed extraordinarily insightful and impactful video and script. Its simplicity was genius I’ll never forget. He has an unusual ability to leverage the creative and strategic, easily.
Gary Earl
Senior Vice President
CIGNA Healthcare