We are a strategic and creative consultancy.

We partner with companies and nonprofit organizations to help them lead in a changing world with powerful brands, strong cultures and memorable customer experiences. With an intense focus on value creation, our rigorous thinking and boundless ingenuity lead to innovative breakthroughs that transform brands, inspire customers and reframe norms of thinking and acting that allow organizations to own their future.

We’re designers and storytellers.

We are a group of multi-talented people with backgrounds in music, art, design, business, statistics, architecture, philosophy, innovation, and literature. We’re thinkers & doers. We’re designers and storytellers. We’re corporate therapists and business strategists. We are marked by an insatiable curiosity and an uncanny ability to uncover hidden insights that allow us to see and create new potential for organizations and their brands.

We’re in it for the long-run.

We know that building a new future for companies takes time: that’s why our people are passionate, humble, collaborative, rigorous, inventive, tenacious and honest.

We are driven by facts, evidence and insights. We thrive in careful planning. We always strive for the highest levels of performance within us and for others.

We put ourselves in your position and apply our ingenuity to solve problems with solutions that are fresh yet grounded in execution and careful planning.

We are humble and tenacious in our pursuit and always focused on helping our clients lead with confidence.

OUR DNA

Meet our team!

Click on our OTTOmojis to learn more about us. Get to know us, our roles and our quirks.

Alan Brew
Brand Strategist

Andrea Fabbri
Brand Strategist

David Kohler
Founder

Tony Brinton
Senior Design Strategist

Winston Rice
Content Strategist

Lindsey Blake Fortarel
Creative Director

Hope Kohler-Pinto
Project Manager

Kimberly Caye-Kohler
Co-Founder

Don Carli
Data Analyst

Michael Braley
Design Consultant

Natalia Corletto
Designer

Nestor Menjivar
Designer

Sandrine Gautheret
Designer

 

CLIENT EXPERIENCE

Entertainment / Media

Children’s Television Workshop

Citizen Stock

Giant Step

Joyous Shout!

Paramount Studios

Red Penny

Time Warner

United Fates

Universal NBC

Viacom

Hospitality

Altus Suites

Design Hotels International

Legends NYC

Rock & Roost

Rosas & Xocolate

Sharigato

Starwood Hotels

Summit One Vanderbilt

Fashion

Coach

Kahn Lucas

MoriLee

Ronald Joyce

Consumer

BrickWorks

DV NYC

HOW Design Conference

Hammermill Paper

KeepWell

Kissamint

Nike

Seventh Generation

Industrial/Commercial

American Airlines

Appleton Paper

BASF

Carpenter Technology

DCC

FedEx

GE

International Paper

Lubrizol

Neenah Paper

Saint Cobain

URS

Real Estate

ABM

BGO

CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc.

doma

F.D. Rich

Irvine Company

SL Green

Pharma / Health

Abbvie

Acuvance

Boston Scientific

HRH Care

Merck

Pfizer

Posit Science

Sun River Health

Waypharm

ZS

Communication

Elsevier

Huawei

Intelsat

Numentum

Oceanic

Optimization Group

Victra

Vodafone

ZS

Non-Profit

Center for Creative Leadership

Food 1st

Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen

Kaiser Foundation

KIPP

Leukemia & Lymphoma Foundation

Starlight Foundation

St. Jude Children’s Hospital

What to Expect Foundation

Finance

Centerline Financial

CitiBank

Dow Jones

First American

Fitch

GATX

Genworth

Guidance Financial Group

Jovia

MasterCard International

Merrill Lynch

Standard & Poor’s

Wells Fargo

Education

BASF Science Academy

Curtis Institute of Music

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Columbia University

KIPP

Liberty Science Center

Sesame Workshop

Technology

Argano

Booker

doma

Extensiv

Exprereo

HP

Ironside

Linksys / Cisco

Revana

Sabre

USB

VidMe

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