We founded WorkingTheory to build the firm we wished we could hire—one that connects what gets disconnected across brand roles.
Everyone knows a brand promise shouldn't contradict reality. But in most organizations, it does—because external brand, internal culture, and talent attraction work in silos with different goals, different metrics, and different bosses. The result: mixed messages, low trust, wasted resources, and value that never reaches the market. Customers sense the gap. Candidates feel it. Employees live it.
We connect what companies say with what people experience and help solve the disconnection. We study decision-making that leads to Brand's Functional Value (what it offers) and Identity Value (how it feels to audiences). We find where they align and where they don't. Then we create value. It's not always obvious, yet there is always a way.
We've worked with hundreds of organizations, transforming employer brand, introducing value strategy, and empowering culture to drive growth. With over 45 combined years leading EB teams at agencies and in-house, we know what it takes to move from messaging value to actually creating it.
A glimpse of our work
Why connection needs its own practice.
Most firms treat employer brand and EVP as standalone projects. We don't. We start with Value Strategy, asking: how can we create value, not just message what may or may not be valuable? To do that, we study how people actually decide what matters. Then we connect corporate brand, culture, talent attraction, and operations around that reality. When they're disconnected, even the most polished EVP becomes expensive words on a career site.
We're not consultants who hand you a deck and disappear. We're practitioners who've been in your seat—fighting for buy-in, resources, and proof that brand actually moves business. No junior teams learning on your dime. No theoretical frameworks disconnected from how organizations work. Just two founders building strategy that survives first contact with reality.
Strategy built on how decisions actually happen. Creative that earns belief. Activation that earns company-wide applause.






