Ralph Ardill
Creative thinker and leading authority on brand transformation, brand experience and experience design
Keynote speaker Ralph Ardill is a recognised presenter and one of the pioneers and leading authorities on Brand Transformation, Brand Experience and Experience Design. He is a creative thinker and a highly sought-after consultant, who works with some of the world’s leading brands. Ralph Ardill is passionate about speaking and with every talk he takes his audience on a captivating action-orientated journey.
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Ralph Ardill
The Brand Transformer
Ralph is an expert consultant, speaker and author on Brand Transformation and Experiential Design and has consulted for brands including Carlsberg, CBRE, Ford, BP and Coca-Cola. Ralph brings a pragmatic and powerful cocktail of management consulting, brand strategy, experience design and change management to help transform the total experience of a businesses.
In 1995, Ralph Ardill wrote one of the first books on Experiential Branding  - simply entitled ‘Experience’ and was also the author of a master-class on Experience Design for the UK Design Council. Ralph has been a judge of the highly influential Cool Brands Council - a leading authority on branding, consumer trends and design - as well as a special advisor to the Royal Society of Arts and the Parliamentary Design Group and is currently a Visiting Fellow for York St John University.
In the 2000s, Ralph Ardill gained extraordinary experience - firstly working as a Business Analyst for Laura Ashley and later as a Brand Manager for CBS Record and a Brand Identity Consultant for Enterprise IG. He then further honed his business and consultancy skills when joining Imagination, one of the world’s most successful and admired creative consultancies, as Marketing and Strategic Planning Director during which time he was the driving force behind the world-class Guinness Storehouse brand center in Dublin.
Since 2006, Ralph Ardill has been working as an independent consultant helping his clients achieve smarter business growth through people-centred, brand-led, design-inspired transformation of their total brand experience.
His extensive brand development experience makes him an expert in overcoming the challenges of
delivering change, harnessing creativity
and
encouraging collaboration
in business.
Ralph Ardill is an engaging, inspiring and powerful speaker. He delivers outstanding talks with the power to make people stop, listen, think and most importantly act.
In 1995, Ralph Ardill wrote one of the first books on Experiential Branding  - simply entitled ‘Experience’ and was also the author of a master-class on Experience Design for the UK Design Council. Ralph has been a judge of the highly influential Cool Brands Council - a leading authority on branding, consumer trends and design - as well as a special advisor to the Royal Society of Arts and the Parliamentary Design Group and is currently a Visiting Fellow for York St John University.
In the 2000s, Ralph Ardill gained extraordinary experience - firstly working as a Business Analyst for Laura Ashley and later as a Brand Manager for CBS Record and a Brand Identity Consultant for Enterprise IG. He then further honed his business and consultancy skills when joining Imagination, one of the world’s most successful and admired creative consultancies, as Marketing and Strategic Planning Director during which time he was the driving force behind the world-class Guinness Storehouse brand center in Dublin.
Since 2006, Ralph Ardill has been working as an independent consultant helping his clients achieve smarter business growth through people-centred, brand-led, design-inspired transformation of their total brand experience.
His extensive brand development experience makes him an expert in overcoming the challenges of
delivering change, harnessing creativity
and
encouraging collaboration
in business.
Ralph Ardill is an engaging, inspiring and powerful speaker. He delivers outstanding talks with the power to make people stop, listen, think and most importantly act.
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