United Fresh’s sixth annual BrandStorm™ event will take place online March 9-11, 2021. The event will feature two sessions designed to facilitate dialogue around the subjective topic of empathy in marketing, both in consumer and business-to-business strategies.
In today’s cancel culture, stories of tone-deaf brand messaging are a dime a dozen. Tuesday, March 9 at 2:00 pm EST, Mary Coppola, United Fresh’s vice-president of marketing & communications will be joined by Amanda Keefer, managing director, Healthy Family Project and Ajit Saxena, public relations & digital marketing manager, Mucci Farms to discuss ways to navigate empathy in consumer marketing at a time when emotions and opinions are on high alert during Taking Temperature: Empathy in B2C Marketing.
“Empathy is a lens through which all of our marketing communications decisions are made,” said Ajit Saxena. “Consumers want to develop relationships with brands and the feeling is mutual. It’s important our marketing echo that sentiment by placing a high degree of emphasis on analyzing our often unpredictable social culture, in real time.”
Later on the 9th at 3:30 pm EST, Raina Nelson, executive vice-president of business development, Renaissance Food Group; Abby Prior, SVP sales and marketing, BrightFarms; and Melissa Moore, marketing manager, Pure Flavor will host an exploratory dialogue during Taking Temperature: Empathy in B2B Marketing.
These industry leaders will guide a discussion on where empathy belongs in B2B marketing, allowing BrandStorm attendees to share opinions, experiences and strategies of their own.
“Our cultural climate presents so many opportunities to get it wrong and even more opportunities to do it right,” said Abby Prior. “I look forward to engaging my marketing peers to learn how each of us has brought empathy into our business relationships, corporate cultures and even personal experiences.”
United Fresh members can attend BrandStorm for $495 with discounts for marketing teams from the same company at $395 each when you register two or more colleagues. Non-members can attend for $695. You can register here.
For more information:
Mary Coppola
United Fresh Produce Association
Tel: +1 (202) 303-3425
mcoppola@unitedfresh.org
www.unitedfresh.org