FIR on Higher Education #41: How to Identify and Cascade Your Key Brand Messaging

Anybody that has gone through a brand review process knows that getting stakeholders aligned on key messaging is no easy task. On episode 41, we explore this topic with Deborah Maue, VP of Strategic Marketing and Communications at Columbia College in Chicago and co-author of the 2015 Higher Ed Branding survey. In the interview, Deb discusses how to use research to align on messaging, the role workshops can plan in teaching colleagues to communicate the key messaging in an authentic way and the value of a messaging map, among other topics.
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Anybody that has gone through a brand review process knows that getting stakeholders aligned on key messaging is no easy task. It is certainly a challenge to put together a message map (like this one from the University of Missouri Extension) and then to cascade it throughout an institution.

On episode 41, we explore these topics with Deborah Maue, VP of Strategic Marketing and Communications at Columbia College in Chicago and co-author of the 2015 Higher Ed Branding survey. In the interview, Deb discusses how to use research to align on messaging, the role workshops can plan in teaching colleagues to communicate the key messaging in an authentic way and the value of a messaging map, among other topics.

If you are thinking about how to approach a branding exercise within your group or institution, then you certainly won’t want to miss this episode.

At the conclusion of the interview, I discuss my new free Media Training for Academics mini-course which I will be delivering via Periscope. 

About Deborah Maue

As VP of Strategic Marketing and Communications at Columbia College, Deborah Maue provides innovative leadership and strategic vision to the College’s marketing, branding and communications divisions. She has a significant role in the implementation of the College’s Strategic Action Plan and oversees staff across marketing, publications, creative, web and digital, and the news office. Prior to assuming her role with Columbia College earlier this year, she was with mStoner, the higher education marketing firm.

Maue has more than 20 years of experience in consumer packaged goods and higher education marketing, including quantitative and qualitative market research, brand development, marketing strategy and marketing communications. Prior to her position at mStoner, Maue led the higher education group at TRU, the global leader in teen and young adult insights, and spent seven years as the associate vice president for marketing strategy at DePaul University, where she led DePaul’s strategic branding and marketing efforts.

Maue received her Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Juniata College and an MBA in marketing and finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

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