Part of Founder Branding

A Founder Branding Program, for the Mining Industry.

For founders, and for the leaders who take a founder’s company forward.

Before a lender funds a mine, someone proves the deposit is real. We do the same for the people the money is betting on: the leader, the team and the company they’re building.

The process

Find and fund(The Leader)Build(The Team)Hand off(The Brand)

The Leader

what investors are really betting on

When to call us: before the next raise.

  • Who they are: who the leader is at their best, from three views: what they say about themselves, what their record shows, and what the people who know them see.
  • The position: where they stand against the leaders they're compared with, and the one thing only they can claim.
  • How they stand out: when so many in mining are Trailblazers (first into new ground), we find what sets them apart, and we either take the open ground, deepen what they already own, or sharpen it until it's unmistakable.
  • The StoryPrint: the plan for their story, in seven parts, including where their style could cost them with investors.
  • The voice: how they sound in every room: the roadshow, the board, the press, the morning bad results come out.
  • We direct the execution: media training, speaker coaching, investor materials and social media are briefed and overseen by us, and delivered by specialists. Whoever does the training works from our plan, so every room gets the same leader.
  • A year of the writing assistant, keeping it consistent between raises.
  • The outcome: they're believed by people who would never have made the same bet themselves.

The Team

whether the plan gets built

When to call us: when the first economic study is filed and the company starts planning a mine.

  • The leadership team, read together: who covers what, who's doubled up, and what's missing. A Trailblazer often needs the right Commander (who makes the call and keeps order) beside them.
  • How they work as a group: who leads which room, where they clash, how they hold up under pressure.
  • Ready for the next stage: what the team needs as the company moves from finding to building. Who comes next is the board's decision. We don't do executive search.
  • The outcome: a team investors can back to finance and build the mine.

The Brand

the company's story, built to outlast any one leader

When to call us: before the change of leader, while the founder is still there.

  • What the company stands for, set against the companies it's compared with.
  • Coherence: the leader, the team and the company telling one story.
  • The handoff: when the founder steps back, the investment case stays.
  • Its ground: where it works, and whose land it is.
  • The outcome: a company the market can follow through a change of leader.

All three together: the full program. The leader, the team and the brand, on one instrument.

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