About us

Mission Brands Consulting focuses exclusively on delivering customized marketing, communications and engagement experiences your mission and members deserve—as an auxiliary arm of your organization.

Our team combines decades of financial services, international development, fintech, SaaS, and non-profit leadership experience, with innovative brand and marketing strategies for clients in the USA and UK.

Sam Plester and Mary Jane Connor of Mission Brands Consulting

Our mission is to elevate
and amplify socially minded brands, creating greater awareness of better solutions for more people.

Why Mission Brands?

Amplify your mission. Improve your customer experience.

For mission-driven organizations like credit unions, fintech and nonprofits, striking the balance between impact and operations can be difficult. Keeping pace with market disruption and consumer behaviors often takes priority.

Our data, analytics and strategic planning services can help you rediscover the connections between your mission and operations, improve your member experience and enhance your community’s welfare.

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Secure your organization’s long-term growth.

From green energy to racial justice, financial health to gender rights; consumer behaviors are heavily influenced by an organization’s mission and values.

Whether you’re a credit union looking to increase membership, a fintech seeking scale or a nonprofit in need of innovative fundraising initiatives, our brand strategy and marketing services infuse your mission into every touchpoint to maximize your growth potential.

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Engage your employees.

Training, fractional leadership and mentoring services provide executive-level insights and expertise without the overhead, ensuring your employees grow as your business does.

Scale the support options you need to deliver your mission, from board-level guidance to hands-on, sleeves-up delivery, Mission Brands has your team covered.

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Bring brand, marketing and mission insights to your event audiences in 2024.

With event season officially underway, add authenticity, insights and energy to your event with a Mission Brands speaker session.

Inspire your audience with brand, marketing and creative strategy sessions that focus on credit union purpose, growth and sustainability, specifically developed for credit unions, CUSOs and fintech audiences.

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Today’s the day mission meets moment.

You’re in good company

Mission Brands Consulting proudly partners with a number of credit union organizations, fintech and nonprofits, including:

I believe you are uniquely able to bring the credit union difference to life.

The credit union system needs partners like Mission Brands to bring fresh energy to our strategic discussions and member-facing outputs.

Renée Sattiewhite
President and CEO
African-American Credit Union Coalition

Renée Sattiewhite, President and CEO of the African-American Credit Union Coalition