We transform and scale premium
brands,
from strategy to guest experience.
We partner with ambitious businesses entering their next stage of growth - and build the brand they need to get there.
— Why Your Here
Your next stage of growth
requires a brand built for it.
Every business reaches a point where the next stage of growth demands a different kind of strategy and leadership. Upper Story steps in when the business has evolved, the market has moved, and the brand hasn’t caught up.
How we work together.
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Brand Transformation
When your business has outgrown its brand. Align data-driven strategy, customer experience, marketing and culture into one connected system that drives long-term growth.
6-12 MONTHS
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Fractional Chief Brand & Marketing Officer
When you need executive leadership without hiring an executive. Embedded brand and marketing leadership to guide strategy, mentor teams and drive commercial growth.
MIN 6 MONTHS
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Go-to-Market Strategy
When you're launching something that matters. Launch new products, services or markets with a strategy that creates momentum — not just awareness.
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Growth Strategy
When marketing isn't working as hard as it should. Evidence-based growth strategy, media management and performance optimization built around business outcomes.
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New Store Opening Strategy
When every opening needs to become a flagship. From local marketing and PR to customer experience and operations, every store opens with a plan for commercial success.
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AI Visibility Audit
When customers start asking AI instead of Google. Understand how AI sees your business — and what needs to change to become more visible, trusted and recommended.
— The Problem
The moments that bring
businesses to Upper Story.
— Our Approach
Built from the
inside out.
For more than fifteen years, Upper Story has led brand, digital, customer experience and growth from inside some of North America's most respected premium retail, fashion, hospitality and consumer brands.
We've worked with leadership teams across premium international brands to restructure the function of brand and marketing — leading innovation across product development, retail expansion, new markets, technology adoption, employee retention and recruitment, and operational excellence, so the brand is alive and present across every customer touchpoint.
Because that's where transformation actually happens. Not in a strategy deck. In the everyday decisions and operations that employees and customers see and fee
Brand & Marketing Leadership Across
In The Press
Feature in Vogue, ELLE,
The New York Times, E!News
Refinery29, National Post,
The Globe & Mail,
CTV News, Global News
and more.
— The Experience
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$500M+
In international premium brands transformed
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$16M
Owned $16M budgets; generated 250M targeted impressions on a lean national campaign
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15+
Years of experience working with billion dollar brands.
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100%
New store openings at 100% higher sales than average locations.
— The Impact
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120%
Social-media YoY growth in one year.
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20,000%
Email subscribers grown in three years (2,500 → 500,000).
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20%
Gift-card sales up 20% in one year.
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100%
Online conversions up 100% in one year.
— The Methodology
The Upper Story way.
Anyone can create a brand playbook. Far fewer have rebuilt and pivoted international brands to surge brand presence and sales. That only happens when your brand positioning becomes an operating model — driving product and service decisions and every guest experience, across every touchpoint.
Every Upper Story engagement follows the same proven, inside-out transformation methodology, connected to four critical drivers of long-term growth.
— How It Works
The Methodology.
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BLUEPRINT
Understand the business before changing the brand. -
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FOUNDATION
Turn strategy into decisions people can actually make. -
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BUILD
Launch the transformation across the business, not just the marketing department. -
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SCALE
Leave behind a business that's built to keep growing without us.
Inside-out transformation pillars.
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Talent & Culture
Attract values-aligned talent and build a culture where employees become brand ambassadors, driving down turnover.
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Product & Operations
Anchor product roadmaps and operational standards in your brand promise, so every feature, service and workflow reinforces why you exist.
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Customer Experience
Close the gap between what marketing promises and what operations delivers — seamless, high-trust experiences across every touchpoint.
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Brand Enterprise
When culture, product and market presence move in lockstep, employees, media and customers describe your business the same way — and it scales efficiently without breaking.
— Resources
Practical tools for leaders building
customer-led businesses.
Not every challenge requires a consulting engagement. Upper Story Resources is a growing collection of playbooks, frameworks and practical tools to help teams make better decisions and scale.
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Growth Alignment Score™
A ten-minute executive assessment that reveals where growth is slowing — and why.
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AI Visibility Score™
See how AI understands, recommends and compares your business before your competitors do.
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Retail Expansion Playbook
A step-by-step framework for opening new locations without losing brand consistency.
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New Product Launch Playbook
Practical frameworks drawn from real transformation engagements.
Ready to build a brand that scales
across your entire business.
Let's audit your customer and employee touchpoints to find where alignment can unlock your next phase of growth.