We call ourselves Brand Culture Creatives because we are experts at helping our clients build their brands at the internal or "employee culture" level of their business. We help our clients WALK their Brand TALK by uncovering and leveraging their "WHY.".

Our Brand DNA methodology focuses on uncovering the unique genetic code each business brand has and leveraging it through their culture, leadership and processes. This inherently results in helping our clients' external marketing messaging become more congruent with who they are through their behaviors with their clients, vendors, and stakeholders.

We are passionate about transferring compelling knowledge to help businesses become conscious about defining and enhancing their brands through every aspect of their business: employees, customers, financial, and systems and processes.

Suzanne Tulien, Co-founder and Principal of The Brand Ascension Group® is committed to organizations who want to achieve transformational and sustainable brand success through strategic, internal branding practices. As co-pioneer of The Brand DNA System(SM), she helps small to medium sized clients define their internal brand core. Then, guides them to integrate it within their leadership, culture, and processes to produce experiences that inspire, motivate and engage employees to deliver memorable customer experiences consistently.

For 23 years, Suzanne has been passionately serving clients by creating corporate identity design solutions packaged with powerful strategic branding consulting and training. Working with a dynamic marketing and training firm, she helped design and facilitate marketing training workshops across the U.S. Then, as creative project manager for the global consulting firm, Navigant Consulting, Inc., she helped manage the internal and external brand acquisitioning of 13 different firms and the acculturation processes to be merged under one corporate entity.

She is author of The 6 Myths of Small Business Branding e-book, and co-author of BRAND DNA; Uncover Your Organization's Genetic Code for Competitive Advantage, as well as a plethora of brand articles published on BrandChannel.com, eHotelier, Go-To-Market Strategies, and others. Suzanne is passionate about paving the evolutionary highway for small businesses to grow from the inside out by conscious, strategic design, not by default!

Suzanne also contributed to the co-founding of the Global Institute of Inspiration, 2011-2012, as partner & VP Training & Delivery.

• Co-founder and Principal of The Brand Ascension Group
• Co-Pioneer of the Brand DNA methodology
• Speaker/Facilitator for corporate conferences
• Certified Trainer; Train the Trainer II; Peak Potentials
• Award winning graphic designer
• Certified trainer in accelerated learning methodologies
• 2006-07 President of the Pikes Peak Advertising Federation
• Co-Author: Brand DNA, Uncover Your Organization's Genetic Code for Competitive Advantage - ©2010
• Author: 6 Myths of Small Business Branding: Discover the Secrets and Learn the Truths to Exponentially Grow Your Bottom Line 
• Bachelor of Arts Degree, Organizational Communications and Graphic Design, University of South Alabama
• Co-Chair of Middle Market Entrepreneurs Group of Colorado Springs, 2011-2012
• 2 Year Member of the Leadership Council of the Pikes Peak Consultant's Roundtable, Communication Chair - 2009-2011
• Expert Panel member of YoungEntrepreneur.com - 2009-10

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS:

• Co-founder of The Brand Ascension Group
• Co-Pioneer of the Brand DNA methodology
• Certified Train-the-Trainer I (Accelerated Learning) through Peak Potentials
• Certified Executive Coach through the Professional School of Psychology in Sacramento.
• Certified trainer and coach in Emotional Intelligence (EQ) through TalentSmart. Certified in the PDI "Profilor" series of 360 feedback tools through PDI
• Member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
• Speaker for corporate conferences and organizations
• Author: Getting Your Employees On The Brand Wagon
• Co-Author: BRAND DNA; Uncover Your Organization's Genetic Code for Competitive Advantage- ©2010
• Bachelor of Science degree from Georgia State University.