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Create value framework

Framework

I have spent years trying to design the most primitive way to think about how organisations face their customers.

Based on my experience with more than 300 brands of all shapes and sizes I boiled it down to two super-easy-to-use triangles.

The only thing you need to be strategic and creative? Your courage.

Use it to answer these
questions:

  • How do I make sure people understand me?
  • How should I talk about what we do?
  • How do I charm my board or investors?
  • How can I build a creative culture in my company?
  • How do I stop using buzzwords?

Methodology

Step 1

Is this for me?

What's the reason I should even care about you? Do you improve my day to day? Do you connect me to something or someone? Do you give me the means to stand for something great in this world?

BIGGER THAN MEI CAN FEELI CAN USEWhat do youcreate for me?
Step 2

Hey, i'm bored.

Now you might have the driving force. But if you don't have the balls to tell the world about it, you have nothing. Be bold. Get attention with your propositions. Let people taste what you do everywhere. Shout from the rooftops. Go.

WHAT DO I BUY?WHAT DO I SEE AND HEAR?WHAT DO I EXPERIENCE?How will youget my attention?

PUSH OR PLAY?

Workshop

Together we'll ask tough questions. Then search for answers.
Search for the most suprising perspectives. 
There are two options you can choose from or ideally combine.

Value PUSH

We sit down and push. Push yourself, your team, your customer, your intuition, your data. Push for the most potent way how to describe what you do. People from Unicorn Attacks, a boutique consultancy I co-founded, are present to help translate what we create to your business reality. 

VALUE PLAY

We thrust all the strategies and plans onto a stage. Yes, an actual theatrical stage. We experiment, cast 'actors' to challenge us, create plays. Directed by me and my wife Zuzana, supported by the Stage on Mars cast. Loads of fun and a way to discover real gold. 

Speaking
topics

I speak about three key topics that I have specialised in over the last two decades. Brand building, Innovation and Creativity. These keynotes offer practical tips and don’t hold back from calling out any bubble and myth there is.

Brand minus bullshit

Brand minus bullshit is a punchy and entertaining 35-minute talk about brand building. We will talk about why we overcomplicate this so much and what is the most rewarding way to build a brand amid the performance versus purpose wars. Ideal for CEOs, CMOs, marketers, and founders.

How to kill a unicorn

How to kill a unicorn is designed to bring common sense to all innovators, venture capitalists and start-up wannabes. It’s a blueprint for thinking about what innovation really is, and shows what you shouldn’t do if you really want to build or profit from a unicorn.

Creativity is a useless word

Creativity is a useless word is a provocative talk about what creativity really is, why only few people really use it, why the “creative director” title is total nonsense, and what you should do if you want to become a creative leader. Ideal for anyone who uses the word creative to make their ego feel good.

About Milan Semelak

Milan Semelak

I provoke people to create value for people. Over the last decade I’ve worked with hundreds of businesses. Huge global corporations. Traditional family businesses. Ambitious start-ups, glorified tech companies and cold-hearted venture capitalists. I establish bespoke ways for them to market themselves, sell and innovate products, or build teams — defining how they create value. Based between London and Prague, I am often causing headaches in Amsterdam, Singapore or California.

Some of the brands I've pushed and played with.

Allianz, Unilever, Axa Singapore, Barclay Card, O2, Virgin Mobile, Heineken, ABB, Innovatrics, Google, Daylong, MINI, Absolut, Starbucks, Pernod Ricard, Becherovka, Pilsner Urquell, Crystal Palace CPFC, Avast, Ceska Sporitelna, HC Sparta Praha, Volvo, Pietro Filipi, Eon, Achmea Group, Intepolis Netherlands, Kusmi Tea and many others