Becky Willan is Managing Director of Given — a brand purpose agency that helps businesses grow by doing good.
Becky Willan is Managing Director of Given — a brand purpose agency that helps businesses grow by doing good.
Organizational Change / To be effective, sustainability and purpose work should create positive business change, not positive media stories. They are management tools, not PR initiatives. So, should brands stop communicating until they’ve got something concrete to say? - 2 years ago
Business Case / Despite the consumer demand, brand opportunity and environmental imperative, very few brands are taking action in a meaningful way. - 4 years ago
Marketing and Comms / Not only did Anglian Water’s ‘Smarter Drop’ project deliver impressive reduction in water consumption amongst consumers, it created impressive gains in brand loyalty and trust for the UK utility. - 4 years ago
Marketing and Comms / We reached out to communication leaders in the SB community for their take on P&G’s spotlight on toxic masculinity. - 4 years ago
Marketing and Comms / The news last week that the Christmas advert from Iceland — a UK supermarket chain specializing in frozen food — has been banned is a bad decision. Iceland’s advert — a repackaging of a short, animated film by Greenpeace released earlier this year with a powerful, consumer-friendly sustainability message — shows a brand that is trying to do good work by improving its impact on the world. - 4 years ago
Behavior Change / We’re increasingly living in a world of purpose-led brands, as growing numbers of consumers are more interested than ever in the “big world” issues related to the products they buy, and how they use them. And yet, when it comes to the sustainability sector, we still struggle to apply some of the most basic communications principles to the issues we are trying to solve. - 5 years ago