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Kate Nightingale is a consumer psychologist and brand strategist.
She is a founder of Humanising Brands, a strategy and innovation agency for challenger brands. Our mission is to create a better world by making brands more HUMAN.
Kate works with retail and other consumer brands across brand strategy, customer experience, design, and innovation. From category defining start-ups, through scale-ups in need of a serious brand strategy pivots to national and global brands adapting their brand strategy and innovating. Kate’s expertise is especially sought after by brands that aim for true differentiation not only in the market but more importantly in consumers’ minds.
Throughout the years Kate worked with brands like Swarovski, Dowsing &amp; Reynolds, Klarna, Harvey Nichols, Samsung, Zopa Bank, Disney, Crowd DNA as well as various start-ups and large established luxury marketplaces.
Kate founded Humanising Design in October 2022, an insight platform at the intersection of design and science. Sharing inspiring and mindbending content spanning all design disciplines from architecture, through branding and UX to product and material design. We envisage the world where design and science collaborate seamlessly together to create a better world and human experience.
Kate is also a lecturer in consumer psychology, consumer behaviour and customer experience at Regent’s University and London College of Fashion. She speaks at numerous industry conferences (Future Stores, eTail Europe, Future Branches, Global Female Leaders) and is often approached by press including The Business of Fashion, Vogue, Sky News, BBC News and Channel 4 News.
About Humanising Brands
We are a strategy and innovation agency for challenger brands.
Bonkers and courageous are our favourite people. Empathetic and compassionate are our favourite companies. Bold and impactful are our favourite brands.
What makes us different?
Founded by a renowned consumer psychologist Kate Nightingale we base our work on robust behavioural and business research.
We know that one size does NOT fit all and that all brands and people are unique and so is our work for you.
What we are brilliant at?
We are masters in brand differentiation. Brand strategy pivots and creating new industry leaders are our bread and butter.
How do we do that?
We inherently understand consumer behaviour and can easily predict the future trends.
What’s more? We don’t stop on strategy but actually get our hands dirty and apply it to design, customer experience and marketing.
Why do we do that?
We believe that brands create our culture and shape human behaviour. We exist to create a better world by making brands more human.
Just some brands we worked with…
Klarna, Swarovski, Dowsing &amp; Reynolds, SNUG, Zopa Bank, London Designer Outlet, a few luxury marketplaces and department stores we are not allowed to name and an incredible collection of socially and environmentally impactful start-ups across fashion, food, homeware, accessories, markeplace models and more.

Chief Behavioural Officer and Founder

Customer Experience

Customer experience belongs to the customer.

What do we mean by it?

Experience is a set of reactions to what a brand puts in front of a customer. It happens only in the customer’s brain.

What a brand is actually creating is a ‘Matrix of Stimuli’ that ideally should result in a similar experience for majority of the brand’s customers.

Customer experience is ruled by how perception works and how we make sense of the world around us.

Senses and emotions are the key ingredients of human percept

I have been working for the past 15 years as a Business Coach and Training Facilitator, specialising in helping people in business become more effective in their communication, and maximise their use of effort and time.&nbsp;
As a Life Coach, my job is to help my clients to access the keys to achieve a balanced and fulfilling life. They will be supported to explore their attitudes and habits, and figure out which of these help them, why they hold on to those that hinder them, and make the changes necessary to replace them with new, helpful, rewarding approaches.
I am also a successful sports coach, working with racing and commercial sailing skippers to hone their skills to be the best they can be.&nbsp;
I love music and reading. I love discovering new information or methods that I can use today and tomorrow.&nbsp;
I love to understand how things work, especially when it comes to how our minds work.&nbsp;&nbsp;
I love the ocean and being at one with the universe.
My current project: I have sailed for many years and am now preparing to complete a circumnavigation. The project started very recently with the purchase of a small sailing boat, and the first step is to sail across the Atlantic in 2023.

Director

Jasper Meehan

I have been working for the past 15 years as a Business Coach and Training Facilitator, specialising in helping people in business become more effective in their communication, and maximise their use of effort and time.&nbsp;
As a Life Coach, my job is to help my clients to access the keys to achieve a balanced and fulfilling life. They will be supported to explore their attitudes and habits, and figure out which of these help them, why they hold on to those that hinder them, and make

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