Brand strategy, starting with culture.

Brand strategy for
moments of change.

We help brands diagnose what is no longer working, choose a clear position and turn that decision into a brand platform, an agency brief and a roadmap their teams and partners can execute.

15+ years · Experience across 500+ brands · International mandates
Moon Above Advisory
What you can hire us for

Five ways to work with us.

Moon Above Advisory works through clearly defined strategic engagements. Every mandate is founder-led and adapted to the organisation's context, leadership team and commercial priorities.

When brands call us

You may recognise your situation.

01

A rebrand is planned, but the strategic idea behind it remains unclear.

02

The brand still performs commercially but is losing relevance or desirability.

03

A new leadership team needs to decide what should change and what must remain.

04

The organisation has grown faster than the meaning of the brand.

05

A major launch requires more than a campaign proposition.

06

Markets, products and agencies are pulling the brand in different directions.

07

The current platform describes the company but does not guide decisions.

08

The brand increasingly resembles its competitors.

09

AI is changing how the organisation creates, communicates and serves customers, but no clear decision has been made about what to automate, what to augment and what must remain human.

Our method

Branding starts with culture.

A brand position cannot be developed only from the company's ambitions. It must also respond to the category, the customer and the cultural environment in which meaning and desire are created.

01

Culture

What is changing around the brand, its customers and its category?

02

Territory

Which cultural space can the brand credibly and distinctively occupy?

03

Positioning

What role, idea and difference should the brand choose?

04

Expression

How should that decision shape identity, communication, products and experience?

A cultural strategy sketch for your brand

Describe your company and the people it serves.

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Generated by AI · a first sketch, not a strategy
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Selected experience

More than fifteen years of brand strategy and transformation.

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Evian
Puma
Uniqlo
Zalando
Microsoft
PSG
Suntory
Uber Eats

Logos represent brands advised across the founder's career. Their use describes professional experience and does not imply a current client relationship with Moon Above Advisory.

Founder-led advisory

Every engagement is led by the founder.

Every engagement is led directly by Jean-Baptiste Quesnay, supported when required by a selected team of strategists, researchers and specialist partners assembled around the mandate.

More than fifteen years of experience across branding, communications, luxury and international market development inform every engagement.

About Jean-Baptiste
Jean-Baptiste Quesnay, founder of Moon Above Advisory
What does your brand need to decide?

Tell us what is changing, what is no longer working and what decision your organisation needs to make.

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