Triniti Marketing – Unleashing your marketing potential

Unleash your marketing potential

We are called Triniti Marketing because experience has shown us great marketing happens when three fundamentals knit together…

  • Knowledge

    When knowledge is managed effectively and productively as a sustainable resource around the business.

  • People

    When people perform at their peak enabled by right skills, organisation, culture and motivation.

  • Brand

    When competitively strong, well balanced and connected brands are inspiringly and consistently delivered.

The Triniti agenda

Triniti Marketing is a consultancy which launched early in 2010 with a big vision. We want to enable our clients to unleash the full potential of their marketing.

We launched Triniti Marketing because experience tells us that single-agenda consultancies (e.g. those offering single services like innovation, marketing training or digital marketing) tend to breed silo’d solutions that don’t achieve real growth or lasting behaviour change.

Triniti Marketing is different because whatever the focus of your project – Knowledge, People or Brand – we have the skills and approaches to go deep enough to solve your issue, and the breadth to check it knits together effectively in your company.

Triniti Marketing – Unleashing your marketing potential

Our values

We live our values in the work that we do with our clients, in our interactions within our own teams and with our partners.

Keep it straightforward

  • We take the time to make the complex simple
  • We use plain English
  • We create solutions that work in the real world

Be supportive

  • We treat each other with respect & honesty
  • We really get the importance of work-life balance
  • We like to learn

Cut to the chase

  • We are impatient for action
  • We aren’t academic, complexity merchants
  • We always tell our clients what we believe

Go the extra mile

  • We work hard to get great results
  • We’re all committed to great work
  • We’re always improving, and right up to date

Nurture strengths

  • We recognise people’s different skills and strengths
  • We balance the strengths & skills of our team
  • We work closely with our clients as one team

Love what we do

  • We love unleashing great marketing
  • We love working with great people
  • We love helping our clients achieve
  • Karen Davies

  • Jill Hilliard

  • Bob James

  • Chris Mason

  • Chris Penrose

  • Ruth Tobbell

Karen Davies

Karen Davies

Karen fell into consulting in 1998, thinking she might do it for a year or so before going back client side, but she loved it so much, she’s been doing it ever since. She has tackled all sorts of marketing challenges and worked across a whole range of industries and markets, from UK High Street retailing, to global food, global financial services, telecoms and broadcasting. Prior to being a consultant she spent 10 years in Unilever, in the UK, predominantly in marketing but latterly in a general management role.

She lives in south west London with her husband, son and very mad, very large dog, who occasionally allows Karen to be dragged along for a walk.

What she loves about consulting

Finding inspiring ways to help my clients get close to their customers and then working with them to turn their insights into tangible actions.

Never happier consulting than

Going back into a client long after a project is finished and hearing people talk about what a difference it has made to their business.

Favourite Triniti value

Be supportive”… we succeed when our clients succeed.

Get in touch

Contact Karen Davies

Call:
+44 755 33 67 134
Email:
karen.davies@triniti-m.com
  • Karen Davies

  • Jill Hilliard

  • Bob James

  • Chris Mason

  • Chris Penrose

  • Ruth Tobbell

Colin Woodcock

Colin Woodcock

Colin has been working in marketing for over 20 years. He spent 7 years in FMCG marketing with Kraft & Kimberly Clark (Scott Ltd) before moving into consumer services and has worked with Barclays, Tesco, Royal Bank of Scotland, RAC, Egg, Morrisons, Prudential & Capita in assignments including head of brand, head of insight and marketing director. So far, he has contributed to the launch of twenty new market propositions, advised on numerous brand or business strategy projects and developed TV led brand campaigns for ten major UK brands.

Following a sensible degree in Economics, he gained a post-graduate qualification in Marketing.

His interests include strategy formulation, brand management and proposition development.  He is an enthusiastic public speaker, passionate on insight led innovation and always willing to present a perspective on brand development or marketing issues.


What do you love about consulting?
'The diversity of the issues and opportunities you have to grapple with.'

Colin is happiest consulting when:
‘When I have an insight that can be developed into a winning proposition.’

Favourite Triniti value:
'Going the extra mile – sometimes it boils down to hard work and it can be incredibly rewarding to hear that you have exceeded expectations.'

  • Colin Woodcock Consultant

  • Coral McConnon Consultant

  • Alicia Mitchell Consultant

  • Catherine Armstrong Consultant

  • Hilary Strong Consultant

  • Becky Routley Consultant

  • Isabelle Izard Consultant

  • Mike Banks Consultant

  • Jason Chebib Consultant

  • Mike Payling Consultant

  • Caroline Jameson Consultant

  • John Parton Consultant

  • Tony Kilbourn Consultant

  • Will Pugh Consultant

  • Gareth Helm Consultant

  • Mike Davies Consultant

  • Nigel Pearcy Consultant

  • Steve Clarke Consultant

Triniti Marketing – Unleashing your marketing potential

The Triniti approach

Whatever the focus of your project – Knowledge, People or Brand – we have the skills and approaches to go deep enough to solve your issue, and the breadth to check it knits together effectively in your company.

  • Knowledge

    When knowledge is managed effectively and productively as a sustainable resource around the business.

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  • People

    When people perform at their peak enabled by right skills, organisation, culture and motivation.

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  • Brand

    When competitively strong, well balanced and connected brands are inspiringly and consistently delivered.

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Sustainable knowledge

We believe that the effective management of knowledge is one of the differentiating competitive advantages of the successful 21st century company.

“The single greatest challenge facing managers in the developed countries of the world is to raise the productivity of knowledge.”

Peter Drucker

But marketing hasn’t yet risen to the knowledge challenge. Single issue briefs are written, and research suppliers respond with little sense of the business context or wider opportunity. This adds to the vast amounts of data which proliferates, making it harder and harder to extract real insight. And all too often potentially impactful knowledge languishes unloved in vast digital filing cabinets, unread, under used and destined never to be consulted again.

We believe that knowledge needs to be treated as a precious resource:

  • Careful choices must be made in commissioning new work
  • Maximum use needs to be made of knowledge generated
  • Waste needs to be minimised.

What makes Triniti different

Triniti developed the unique concept of sustainable knowledge because we believe passionately that marketing knowledge is a most precious resource with the potential to be used much more effectively. Our approach helps jump start active sustainable management of knowledge, its acquisition and use, to help eradicate waste, and maximise impact. This includes:

  1. Reduce - make more of what you already know, share it more effectively and focus ruthlessly on only what you really need
  2. Reorganise – organise and store knowledge in ways that help users access it easily whilst promoting fast flow through the business
  3. Reuse – help more people in the business make more use of what you generate, be imaginative about the ways in which it can be used and think about how you can recycle and regenerate knowledge for the benefit of all
  4. Reform – drive to deeper, more resonant insights and start to use metrics to measure the impact of knowledge and associated waste to improve its ROI

If you feel knowledge in your business isn’t being used sustainably, give us a call. We believe we can help.

Sustainable knowledge- typical issues we help clients with

Know What You Know

How to reuse and reapply what you already know to reduce cost and maximise the benefit of your existing knowledge

Sharing & Transferring Knowledge

How to transfer best practice within the business to accelerate growth and improve marketing ROI

Insight Generation

How to marshal existing facts and evidence to generate powerful insights that really will change behaviour

Sustainable knowledge toolkit

How to apply some simple tools and processes that will start to make knowledge in your business more sustainable

Organisational design

How to design the Insight function to meet the needs of a sustainable knowledge business

Making Consumers Real for the Business

How to bring consumers to life so that everyone in the business understands them enough to meet their needs properly

Trends

How to make trends useful through translating inspiring trends into tangible commercial solutions

Scorecards

How to select and communicate the metrics that really matter to the success of the business and inspire action

Measurement of ROI on Knowledge

How to measure the quality, efficiency and waste in marketing knowledge and the creation of plans to improve

Get in touch

For more details on Triniti’s Knowledge practice contact Ruth Tobbell

Call:
+44 7887 640 746
Email:
ruth.tobbell@triniti-m.com

People at their peak

We believe to get marketing people to perform at their peak needs a mix of science and art, like marketing itself. Rationally, people need to understand their role in the organisation’s success – but they also need to have their passion for it fuelled. They need to feel supported by the right organisational structure, inspired by the environment and culture. They need to develop and sharpen their skills. They need to feel rewarded and valued.

What makes Triniti different?

Importantly, at Triniti we recognise that marketing is a craft and becoming a skilled marketer is like an apprenticeship. To become truly skilful requires a combination of ‘learning’ and ‘doing’, with repeated practice in work based situations, and with inspiring feedback from people who have more experience. A single workshop, an e-tutorial, a new process toolkit, another re-structure won’t be enough. With de-layering and outsourcing, companies these days struggle to transfer master craftsmanship person to person. That’s why we’ll work with you and your team to develop the lasting people improvements your business needs.

We understand that helping people move from good to better to brilliant implies a journey of individual and organisational change. So whether your startpoint is as fundamental as step-changing the customer-focus of the whole company or as focused as strengthening marketing planning skills, we apply the following Triniti principles:

  • Plan for lasting behaviour change: What is the vision? Define the successful changes as observable behaviours. Plan the ongoing journey to stay on track.
  • Pull the right levers: What combination of actions will bring about the change? Even if the focus is a skill training course, what environment and support will a delegate return to?
  • Motivate and inspire change: Design programmes people will want – when, where and how they’re needed. Anticipate the barriers to change throughout their journey and inspire people to embed new thinking and approaches. What rewards will there be for improved performance?
  • Make new learning stick: Use a blend of learning approaches with the simplest, most memorable content. Encourage work-based learning and skill development with real life outputs .?

If you believe your marketing team could be performing even better, give us a call. We believe we can help.

People at their Peak- typical issues we help clients with

Auditing Performance

How to identify gaps in marketing performance to set the agenda for improvement & then track progress

Focus on the Right Levers

How to select and integrate the right levers (skills, process, organisation, culture) to help make people make marketing more effective

Building Marketing Skills

How to build effective learning content and select the right delivery mechanisms to balance individuals’ and the company’s needs

Vision for Peak Performance

How to envision what capabilities and competencies are needed to compete effectively now and in the future

Motivating Change

How to motivate people to get behind the proposed marketing changes from the start

Making it Stick

How to inspire and align individuals and organisations to stay on track and ensure new standards of output quality are achieved

Get in touch

For more details on Triniti’s People practice contact Bob James

Call:
+44 755 33 67 135
Email:
bob.james@triniti-m.com

Connected brands

We believe that to be successful in the long run, brands need to be built & developed with the following requirements in mind:

  • Grounded in deep human stories that resonate, yet equally capable of imaginative leaps that surprise & inspire
  • Well-balanced – achieving harmony between competitive product or service delivery and emotional engagement
  • Constantly connected – with relevance for all the different people touched by the brand’s footprint

What makes Triniti different?

These days brand management is becoming more and more fragmented & specialised, in response to globalisation, media proliferation, on-line networking, increasing competition. And yet at the same time there is a growing need for integration, for connected thinking that joins up the dots to allow the brand to flourish – where the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts.

Whatever the brand challenge (and we’ve faced a few pretty hairy ones in our time!) we strive to work out the best blend of knowledge and creativity to take your team and your business to the next level. Of course we know our way around processes, frameworks and models, but in our experience, success comes from being flexible in how we combine these for each individual situation.

We’ve worked for global FMCG companies and national retailers; service businesses and mass broadcasters – so we understand the challenges of working to influence people positively in a world that seems more complicated by the day. In our experience creating engaged audiences, whether inside or outside the business, is much more than half the battle.

Brand stories that come from deep human truths can really engage and cut through to inspire a passion in those they touch – and that’s what we’re all about.

We came across this quote that gets to the heart of what we think:

“If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life.”

Siberian elder

If you’re looking for a guide to make your brand more connected, give us a call. We believe we can help.

Connected Brands- typical issues we help clients with

Business, Category & Brand Visioning

How to create a compelling growth strategy and inspire people to put it into action

Branding

Creating & evolving compelling propositions that can succeed in a changing market-place

Innovation

How to organise the innovation effort more strategically and create breakthrough ideas that can cut-through in the real world, not just in the conference room

Customer Experience

How to identify what really matters to delight customers and then actually make it happen

Growth-led Business Planning

How to make the most of limited resources and ensure 100% alignment across the team to deliver growth objectives

Outsmarting the Competition

How to ensure that priority initiatives can succeed, through anticipating & reacting to potential competitive response

Keeping Connected & Engaged

How to ensure that the different communities* touched by the brand become supporters of what the brand is doing rather than detractors? (*eg Employees, Opinion leaders, Consumers/Customers, Government, NGOs)

Get in touch

For more details on Triniti’s Brand practice contact Chris Mason

Call:
+44 7967 554 858
Email:
chris.mason@triniti-m.com

Shopper marketing

Triniti Marketing’s combination of experience and skills make us the right partner for any shopper marketing challenge. We combine an understanding of the strategic and commercial agendas of both FMCG and retailer brands with the ability to connect consumer, shopper and retailer knowledge together. We use these to create practical, fast delivery action plans.

Vital areas where we provide solutions include:

Actionable shopper insight

Using Triniti’s shopSMART framework we develop deep understanding of the shopper, making this come alive within the business and apply the learning to impact behaviours along the path to purchase.

Download: shopSMART for actionable shopper insights

Category / channel vision development

Identifying, sharing and actioning the strategic growth drivers across categories and channels.

Winning collaboration

Helping suppliers and retailers to work together to identify and deliver common shopper opportunities and co-promotion platforms.

Compelling retailer story development

Translating great ideas into propositions and plans that engage and convince retailers.

Shopper innovation

Applying creative techniques to generate step change ideas that will change shopper behaviour.

Building a shopper focused organisation

Defining the programme to embed key shopper marketing capabilities across the organisation.

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Triniti’s approach knits together Brands – Knowledge – People

Connected brands

  • Extensive experience and expertise of growing categories and brands for both retailers and suppliers.
  • Understanding the need for practical, fast-delivery action plans.

Sustainable knowledge

  • Skills to develop and present highly actionable insight.
  • Understanding what information really matters to drive better decisions.

People at their peak

  • Skills to engage teams and change behaviours.
  • Approaches to make learning stick.

Triniti Marketing – Unleashing your marketing potential

Experience

Our clients tend to be major household name businesses with global reach and reputations. We usually work with senior marketers, from Chief Marketing Officers to Global Brand Directors to Marketing Directors and Managers. We’ve also worked on applying marketing skills into other functions such as Sales and Human Resources.

Since the start of 2010 we have won clients from around the world in the following sectors:

  • Retailing
  • Broadcasting
  • Food & Beverages
  • Health & Beauty
  • Paper & Household Goods

Amongst others these companies include:

  • Three Global Fortune 500 companies
  • Four FTSE 100 firms
  • Six different headquarter country locations

Companies where we’ve built our experience either as line managers or consultants

  • Unilever
  • P&G
  • Pepsico
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Argos
  • AXA
  • Barclays
  • BDF Beiersdorf
  • British Airways
  • Eurostar
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • HBOS PLC
  • HSBC
  • Iceland
  • IPC Media
  • Littlewoods
  • M&S
  • Morrisons
  • Novartis
  • S&N
  • Sainsbury’s Bank
  • The Sun
  • The Times
  • UPC
  • Vodafone
  • Whitbread

Triniti Marketing – Unleashing your marketing potential

Working with us

What will you notice that’s different?

  • Fast action

    When we spot issues or opportunities you’ll know quickly. We use our skills, experience and proven approaches to reach 95% right answers speedily and then work effectively with your teams to do the rest. We have been around a while and get up quickly from the occasional knock!

  • Shoulder to shoulder support

    How we work is close-in and collaborative, adult to adult. We can empathise with the issues you face in leading Marketing change, because let’s face it, we’ve faced some of the same challenges ourselves. We won’t let you down. When you need someone to share the burden, we are there.

  • Creative leaps

    We make connections that others don’t see. We help you unlock latent creative strengths. We stretch the thinking with insight and foresight. We create atmospheres that inspire. We set high value in creative thinking and approaches. But what you’ll find is we aren’t luvvy, indulgent or creative for its own sake and we don’t have daft business cards or silly titles.

  • Cut-through

    What we say should help you make a difference. When a choice can be made, we’ll help you see it. We can see the woods for the trees. We are not complexity merchants. We work hard to make the complex simple, so it gets understood and used consistently by busy people.

  • Rigorous foundations

    What we believe about marketing runs deep. Whatever we propose can be justified from what we know. We build action from rigorous analytical foundations. While we are rigorous in our thinking, approaches, recommendations and actions we aren’t self congratulatory or arrogant.

  • Engagement & enjoyment

    We love what we do and it shows and we hope it will lead to you enjoying working with us. We engage your teams’ heads, hands and hearts, make them passionate for change and make sure programs lead to action. To work in Triniti all our team must pass the airport test… could you stand being stuck in an airport all day with this person?

Our partners

Our extended network

To help us build more complete solutions for our clients we are building and managing a number of strategic partnerships in areas such as:

  • Design and identity
  • Brand experience
  • Consumer connection and research
  • Embedding change

Get in touch

If you think you have a business with the potential to be a global or regional Triniti Partner please contact Chris Penrose.

Call:
+44 755 33 67 137
Email:
chris.penrose@triniti-m.com

Triniti Marketing – Unleashing your marketing potential

Get in touch

Triniti Marketing Ltd operate from a number of remote office sites.
Please contact one of the team for their local address.

Getting in contact

If you'd like to know more about Triniti please contact Karen Davies +44 755 33 67 134 karen.davies@triniti-m.com

If you’d like to work as a consultant with us please contact Chris Penrose +44 755 33 67 137 chris.penrose@triniti-m.com

If you have a general enquiry please contact +44 208 755 4380

Our practice experts

Knowledge

Please contact Ruth Tobbell +44 7887 640 746 ruth.tobbell@triniti-m.com

People

Please contact Bob James +44 755 33 67 135 bob.james@triniti-m.com

Brand

Please contact Chris Mason +44 7967 554 858 chris.mason@triniti-m.com

For administration our Registered office is:
2 Crossways Business Centre, Bicester Road, Kingswood, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP18 0RA.
Triniti is registered in the UK: Company registration number 7116346

The Hub

The Hub is our inspiring riverside meeting place, set in a warehouse regeneration area in Twickenham, south west of London.

Overlooking the river, we are just 100 metres from the beautiful Twickenham Green and 10 minutes walk from either Twickenham or Strawberry Hill rail stations. The Hub is surrounded by neighbours in creative branding, packaging and web design, green investments, fashion and consumer trends.

The Hub is where we get together to unleash our own potential, to inspire each other, to brief new projects and to crack tough problems in our client teams. It’s where great minds work collaboratively and creatively to solve issues and develop new breakthroughs. It’s where we help develop our team, build and share our knowledge, and have fun.