The world needs changing – that much is clear. But how best to do it? Change how you vote? Get out and protest? Have an argument?

The fact is that the power sits in your pocket. Changing how we spend our money has more potential to change the world than anything else we can do with our time on this planet.

Consumer spending accounts for over 60% of GDP across the world and it will hit a staggering $77 trillion a year by 2029.

But if we moved just 1% of spending to brands that are making a positive impact on our planet, this would amount to $700 billion every year. And the good news is that it’s already happening.

A rising tide of ‘Change Brands’ are emerging across the world and tackling some of the biggest problems facing humanity. Brands like Tony’s Chocolonely, Oatly, Vinted, and Liquid Death and many more are putting legacy brands under pressure by winning consumers’ hearts, minds and their spending.

As this movement gathers pace, many legacy brands and business models will be in danger of becoming obsolete in the next decade if they don’t radically reconsider how they do things.

Obsolete provides clear steps on how to create a world changing brand. It also includes guidance to help legacy brands introduce Change Brand thinking, as well as unique insight from ‘Agent Change’, a secret agent inside big companies battling to come to terms with a changing world.

 

 

Chris Baker is an award-winning advertising and social change strategist turned entrepreneur. He is the Founder & CEO of Serious Tissues, a toilet roll brand that fights climate change and deforestation by planting trees with every sale. Over 1.2m trees have been planted in just three years. He is also the Co-Founder of Change Please, a coffee brand that has helped hundreds of homeless people off the streets by training them as baristas, and is available in 23 countries. Change Please was named the World’s Leading Social Enterprise in 2018 and in Marketing Week’s 100 Most Disruptive Brands in the World. He has spent 20 years working on the world’s biggest brands including Unilever, Pepsico, Boots, Sky and Alpro whilst winning over 100 strategic and creative awards along the way.

Chris is an accomplished keynote speaker, having spoken at events for Waitrose, Tony’s Chocolonely, Ogilvy Consulting’s ‘Nudgestock’ and many more.

 

 

If you’re the type of brand described in Obsolete, join our Change Brand community. You’ll be able to share ideas, contacts and audiences with like-minded brands on a mission to leave the world a little better than we found it.