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CXO is a brand strategy and communication firm that helps C-suite leaders accelerate business strategy through brand. 

Our brand services help you articulate who you are, what you do and why it matters and our communication services ensure those messages reach the audiences that matter most to your success.

We build brands that build business.

Brand is not decoration, it’s direction. We help you align what you say with where you’re going.

The leaders we work with are often navigating moments of significant change – growth, transformation, competitive escalation, economic pressure, leadership transition or evolving stakeholder expectations.

They turn to CXO when their brand strategy needs to catch up with their business ambition.

Every business challenge reveals a brand opportunity. 

The business challenge we hear

Business strategy is evolving

The brand opportunity it reveals

Leverage brand to accelerate change 

The business challenge we hear

Economic model is broken

The brand opportunity it reveals

Elevate value drivers that raise brand premium

The business challenge we hear

Market differentiation is unclear

The brand opportunity it reveals

Position under a single uniting idea

The business challenge we hear

Employees aren’t executing the strategy

The brand opportunity it reveals

Unite explanation with emotion

The business challenge we hear

Customer care-abouts are changing

The brand opportunity it reveals

Position at the center of the customer’s next frontier

The business challenge we hear

Executives disagree on what matters most

The brand opportunity it reveals

Surface distinct brand paths to drive business choice

The business challenge we hear

Competitors steal our story

The brand opportunity it reveals

Redefine market success metrics on your terms

The business challenge we hear

Old positioning doesn’t fit new products

The brand opportunity it reveals

Isolate and fill brand architecture gaps

The business challenge we hear

Disconnect between what we say and do

The brand opportunity it reveals

Translate brand promises into high-impact behaviors

Founded in Silicon Valley in 2003, CXO built its reputation helping industry-defining technology companies shape how they were understood by the markets they served.

Our work with leading brands including Adobe, AMD, Cisco, EMC, Equinix, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Motorola, Oracle, RSA, and many others helped them navigate pivotal moments of growth, transformation and market evolution.

Today, we continue to partner with trailblazing organizations across technology, healthcare, professional services, finance and aerospace/ defense. Many of our client relationships span more than a decade – a reflection of the trust, partnership and strategic impact we bring to every engagement.

Since day one, we have believed that brand strategy and business strategy should never operate separately. The strongest organizations are those whose actions consistently reinforce what they say they stand for.

That belief continues to guide everything we do.

What it’s like to work with us

The high-stakes matters senior teams trust us to advance require senior-level professionals to pull off. We plug into your business seamlessly and drive results from day one, operating with minimal direction and maximum impact. This integration is so natural that senior teams often forget we’re not part of their organization.