Is Your Brand Driving Business Growth?

When your brand strategy is unclear, marketing becomes fragmented, with content, campaigns, and teams pulling in different directions.

Is Your Brand Driving Business Growth?

When your brand strategy is unclear, marketing becomes fragmented, with content, campaigns, and teams pulling in different directions.

If your strategy feels off course, I’m here to fix that. I help you realign your brand so marketing drives clarity, cohesion, and commercial growth.

Hi, I’m Simon Grainger,

An empathy-led brand strategist helping growth-phase businesses turn human connection into clarity, alignment, and commercial impact.

With 15+ years of experience advising startups and multinationals, I have also lectured at Vega and spoken on the TEDx stage. Drawing on this breadth of expertise, I help brands move from reactive marketing to clear, scalable strategies that drive sustainable growth.

Hi, I’m Simon Grainger,

An empathy-led brand strategist helping growth-phase businesses turn human connection into clarity, alignment, and commercial impact.

With 15+ years of experience advising startups and multinationals, I have also lectured at Vega and spoken on the TEDx stage. Drawing on this breadth of expertise, I help brands move from reactive marketing to clear, scalable strategies that drive sustainable growth.

Services

Fractional CMO

I serve as your part-time Chief Marketing Officer, developing and executing a brand and marketing strategy that aligns with your business goals and resonates with your customers.

My empathy-led approach helps clarify messaging, focus resources, and drive meaningful growth, working closely with your team as a strategic partner.

Strategic Interventions

If you’re feeling unclear about your vision, ideal customer, or messaging, you’re not alone, and you don’t have to figure it out alone. I offer short-term strategic support tailored to your goals, whether you need direction for your brand, marketing, or personal positioning.

Together, we’ll uncover the clarity and connection your business needs to move forward.

Industry Talks

My talks combine extensive brand and marketing knowledge with a dry sense of humour, ensuring an experience that is both engaging and practically grounded.

Each session is tailored to your audience and can cover topics like Brand & Marketing Strategy, Consumer Trends, Aligning Personal and Business Brands, and Building Internal Brand Culture.

I help brands find clarity, alignment, and momentum through:

01
Proven Expertise
Over 15 years helping brands clarify their positioning.
02
Strategic Direction
Tailored brand strategy aligned to your growth objectives.
03
Vetted Network
Trusted access to hands-on creative execution partners.
04
Team Alignment
Bringing clarity and focus to cross functional collaboration.
05
Direct Access
One-on-one strategic support to help you drive growth.

Portfolio

rewardsco
mr-price-group-limited
startup-grind
vector
liberty
marketing-indaba
vega
sa-canegrowers
psasa
pather-and-pather

What My Clients Are Saying

Simon is a specialist in his field and has really helped my team with positioning our brand more effectively. His work ethic is impeccable and overall he is a wonderful human being! Innovate Durban has benefited greatly from his services and he comes highly recommended!
Aurelia
Aurelia Albert
CEO, Innovate Durban
For our Internal Comms team at Mr Price Group, Simon did a full communications audit and provided comprehensive recommendations for us - very realistic and creative recommendations and solutions. His work ethic is impeccable. I would recommend him for any branding and communications solutions you or your company may need.
ruth-mthembu
Ruth Mthembu
Internal Communications Strategist, Mr Price Group Limited
Simon has been coaching me on Personal Branding for almost a year now. He has been a great resource for my growth and success, with a unique ability to understand challenges and opportunities in my space and propose practical solutions.
Nathi
Nathi Mthethwa
Group Executive, Adcock Ingram
In March we invited Simon to speak and the topic he selected was “Right Message, Right Audience: Key Marketing Principles for Growth”. He was an absolute pleasure to work with, professional, organised and generous with his knowledge and time. Our members thoroughly enjoyed his talk and gained so much value and practical insight into the topic. Thank you Simon!
Brenden Cavanagh
PSASA, KZN President

If your brand isn’t driving the results you need,
let’s talk.

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