Define your purpose, perfect your craft, focus on your experience
Matt Jones is one of Australia’s leading strategists and storytellers when it comes to the intersections of brand, business, leadership, experience, culture, technology, human behaviour and storytelling.
Matt has an eclectic background, combining economics, politics, brand experience and gin.
As one of three co-founders, and the brand brains behind Four Pillars, Matt Jones connects the dots between brand and purpose theory and gritty business and delivery reality.
His storytelling is insightful, engaging, energising and (perhaps most important) highly relatable to all kinds of businesses.
Matt is obsessed with sport, food, photography, wine, film, travel, politics, fiction, architecture, technology, design, hotels, ideas, experiences, cinema, contemporary art, human behaviour, ideas and (yes) gin.
He works in, speaks about, and connects the dots, between all of the above areas and is a former panelist on The Gruen Transfer.
Current work
In December 2013, he was one of three founders to launch Four Pillars Gin which quickly went on to be the number one selling craft spirit in Australia. Four Pillars Gin is an overnight small business success story five years in the making.
Previous experience
Political: From 2001 to 2005, Matt was Chief Political Adviser to the UK Conservative Party (the youngest person in the party’s history to hold that role).
Employment: In 2006, Matt moved from politics into brand experience, first in Sydney and then in New York City, as Jack Morton Worldwide’s first chief creative and strategy officer.
Between 2006 and 2012, Matt became one of the world’s most influential thinkers in the emerging world of brand experience, helping brands like IBM, Microsoft, Qantas, Sony, Samsung and Volkswagen navigate their way in a new era of socially-connected consumers and experience-led brand building.
In 2012, Matt founded his own consultancy, focused on applying creative strategy, storytelling and experience design to brand and business challenges for corporate, craft, start-up and social businesses.
Talking Points
Brand Is Bias (How to build brand in a world controlled by the customer)
Brand Is Bias (How to build brand in a world controlled by the customer)
Why You Need to Think about ‘Why?’ (Business, leadership, innovation and culture through a purposeful lens)
Why You Need to Think about ‘Why?’ (Business, leadership, innovation and culture through a purposeful lens)
Technology, Culture, Community & Communication (Thinking and working differently in a world of disruptive change)
Technology, Culture, Community & Communication (Thinking and working differently in a world of disruptive change)
Gin & Business (Commercial lessons from the world of craft)
Gin & Business (Commercial lessons from the world of craft)
The Experience is the Marketing (Winning in the new world of whole-of-business brand building)
The Experience is the Marketing (Winning in the new world of whole-of-business brand building)
Influencing Stories (Why business, brand and organisational success begins with storytelling)
Influencing Stories (Why business, brand and organisational success begins with storytelling)
In Craft We Trust
In our changing landscape nothing could be more important to create, harder to build or easier to lose than trust. Trust is at the heart of your brand and your business success, which is why growing trust and building enduring trust-based relationships needs to be at the heart of your marketing efforts. In Craft We Trust
Matt Jones has spent his career helping organizations build trust…from political parties to global brands to his own distillery business, Four Pillars Gin.
Matt’s journey has taught him that the key to building trust is to embrace your craft and create stories and experiences that bring your customers and clients closer to what makes your business special.
In this keynote, Matt explores the secrets of building your craft into every customer experience you deliver, so that the experience of your brand becomes your marketing and your clients become your most powerful form of advertising.
Better Better Better - How to win by focusing on making better products and delivering better experiences and being better for the planet.
In this keynote Matt explores the psychology behind consumer and shopper preferences, demonstrating how our loyalty to brands (from retailers and banks to telcos and gin makers) is influenced by a complex bundle of factors…our perception of product quality and value, our perception of the experiences wrapped around the product and (more and more) our perception of the sustainability and community values of the brand behind the product. Matt provides tangible examples from across multiple categories of brands pulling all three levers to win…from retailers to sneaker makers to car brands. Better Better Better - How to win by focusing on making better products and delivering better experiences and being better for the planet.
He then demonstrates how Four Pillars has grown to be the world’s leading gin producer (recently named bother Distiller of the Year and Brand Innovator of the Year at the global Gin Magazine Awards) by focusing on all three of these levers. On sustainability, Four Pillars was the first distillery in Australia to achieve carbon-neutral status both for our distillery and all our gins.
Video
Matt Jones | Introduction | Saxton Speakers
Matt Jones is one of Australia’s leading strategists and storytellers when it comes to the intersections of brand, business, leadership, experience, culture, technology, human behaviour and storytelling. As one of three co-founders, and the brand brains behind Four Pillars, Matt Jones connects the dots between brand and purpose theory and gritty business and delivery reality.Matt Jones | In Craft We Trust | Saxton Speakers
Matt Jones is one of Australia’s leading strategists and storytellers when it comes to the intersections of brand, business, leadership, experience, culture, technology, human behaviour and storytelling. As one of three co-founders, and the brand brains behind Four Pillars, Matt Jones connects the dots between brand and purpose theory and gritty business and delivery reality.Matt Jones | Purpose | Saxton Speakers
Matt Jones is one of Australia’s leading strategists and storytellers when it comes to the intersections of brand, business, leadership, experience, culture, technology, human behaviour and storytelling. As one of three co-founders, and the brand brains behind Four Pillars, Matt Jones connects the dots between brand and purpose theory and gritty business and delivery reality.Matt Jones | Trust | Saxton Speakers
Matt Jones is one of Australia’s leading strategists and storytellers when it comes to the intersections of brand, business, leadership, experience, culture, technology, human behaviour and storytelling. As one of three co-founders, and the brand brains behind Four Pillars, Matt Jones connects the dots between brand and purpose theory and gritty business and delivery reality.Matt Jones | Brand Building | Saxton Speakers
Matt Jones is one of Australia’s leading strategists and storytellers when it comes to the intersections of brand, business, leadership, experience, culture, technology, human behaviour and storytelling. As one of three co-founders, and the brand brains behind Four Pillars, Matt Jones connects the dots between brand and purpose theory and gritty business and delivery reality.Audio
“Matt is one of the most inspiring speakers you can engage. His razor sharp mind and unique background allow him to gracefully navigate the myriad challenges a brand faces today.” ... keep reading Starcom MediaVest Group
“Matt gets ‘it’ before most people even know there is an ‘it’ to get.”
“Matt was the opening speaker for our annual Kick.Start.Smart. event, and I can honestly say he blew everyone away. Captivating the audience from the moment he hit the stage with his incredible energy, high-calibre-content and thought-provoking presentation. If you’re looking for an authority on brand strategy, purposeful thinking and creative storytelling, Matt is your guy.”
“Outrageously articulate, splendidly creative and profoundly pragmatic.”
“Matt joined us on an agency roadshow to share the story of Four Pillars Gin, and how the business used our platforms to establish its market position. Matt is a wonderful speaker…funny, insightful and highly engaging. His experience in marketing around the globe means he is a true marketing wizard who is able to share his magic with anyone who is interested in business or brand building.”
We were looking for something to take the edge of the information download from the jam-packed program, and Matt added the extra flavour and spark to our closing lunch that we needed. A great way to close a convention that lifted the spirits of all attendees!
Matt was fantastic, not only did he fully understand the theme of our event, but tailored his content accordingly, he hit the mark and balanced his story and key themes with our event objectives, one of the highest rated sessions.
We are always thoroughly impressed with Matt. He is easy to deal with, available when we needed him pre-event and onsite, and ensures his content is in line with the conference theme. Will be booking Matt again!
