Kendall Cherry

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kendall Cherry Strategy

A founder-led brand designed to support an entire creative universe.

Brand identity
Brand guidelines
Website design
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business strategist, author and educator
Approach
When Kendall Cherry came to Emerald, her business had grown far beyond its original foundation. What began as a copywriting business for personal brands had evolved into a much larger ecosystem spanning consulting, storytelling and sales education, speaking, writing, publishing, and media.

Together, we repositioned the brand from a traditional company identity into a founder-led personal brand built around Kendall's voice, perspective, and philosophy.

We designed a flexible personal brand system that could support an entire universe of ideas, offers, and revenue streams while making every touchpoint feel unmistakably Kendall.
brand design
A refined visual identity rooted in heritage and craft.
We evolved the brand into a more timeless, editorial aesthetic, pairing a signature-inspired logo with tactile details, vintage references, and a sense of craftsmanship and authorship.
Flexible design system
Kendall’s brand carries seamlessly across LinkedIn, newsletters, the website, future books, educational programs, social media templates and everything still to come
website design
A website designed for a multi-hyphenate founder
Kendall needed a digital ecosystem that could bring together consulting, speaking, writing, education, publishing, and her growing library of ideas without making everything feel like the same brand repeated six times.
BRAND ecosystem
Instead of giving every offer its own disconnected identity, we built a flexible brand system that lets each part of Kendall's business evolve while staying connected to the larger story. The result feels less like a collection of offers and more like stepping into Kendall's world.
Here to sell book
A business book designed to feel like a field guide
Working closely with Kendall, we developed a visual direction inspired by farmers’ almanacs and field guides, intentionally moving away from the polished, bro-y aesthetic of traditional business books. Inside, engaging spreads, thoughtful typography, and beautiful visual details make the book feel like something you’ll want to keep, revisit, and bookmark.
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Illustration: Gaspar Costa

Founder-Led Branding & Website FAQs

What is founder-led branding?

Founder-led branding builds the company’s identity around the founder’s perspective, expertise, personality, and point of view while creating a system that can grow beyond the individual.

How do you brand multiple offers under one personal brand?

Create a shared visual and verbal foundation, then give individual offers enough flexibility to develop their own personality. Kendall Cherry’s brand uses this approach across consulting, The Greenhouse, Wallflower Fridays, speaking, and publishing.

How do you keep a personal brand cohesive without making everything look the same?

A flexible design system creates consistency through shared typography, color, imagery, layout principles, and visual motifs rather than repeating the exact same treatment across every touchpoint.

How much does a personal brand and website cost?

Brand projects start at $8,000.

Web projects start at $14,000.



Most combined brand and website projects fall between $20,000–$35,000+. Download our Pricing Guide for more information.

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