Trend update: What’s next for millennials?
For over 20 years, we’ve been critically (re)assessing our trend model – the Human Context Circle™ – updating, replacing and refining whenever new socio-cultural
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Navigating the competitive landscape and fostering customer loyalty are just a few of the multifaceted challenges that brands encounter. In an ever-evolving market, staying relevant, maintaining authenticity and adapting to shifting consumer expectations are crucial to success. For over twenty years, TrendsActive successfully helped organisations with these challenges. Here’s a short overview with examples.
Brands that align with sociocultural trends.
Advertising, content and creativity that sticks.
Products and services that are relevant and meaningful.
Change & leadership development that works.
Brands that align with sociocultural trends.
Advertising, content and creativity that sticks.
Products and services that are relevant and meaningful.
Change & leadership development that works.
In our blog, we track global events, interpreting their implications for brands and organizations based on sociocultural insights.
For over 20 years, we’ve been critically (re)assessing our trend model – the Human Context Circle™ – updating, replacing and refining whenever new socio-cultural
Desire paths are the trails people create when they skip the paved walkways and take the shortcut they want. These unplanned paths show us
Tapping into complexity Marketing today is more than a vehicle for sales; it has the power to shape cultural narratives and foster societal change.
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Before Kim Pillen started as a trend consultant at TrendsActive, she worked for four years as a creative strategist at Dept. For brands such as Philips, bol.com, Beiersdorf, JBL, and the Consumers’ Association, she built (online) campaign, brand, and social media strategies. After four years, she decided that she wanted to better understand people and society in order to advise brands more effectively. That’s how she ended up at TrendsActive. Here, she can do what she loves most: digging into people’s needs and then working with brands to see how and where they can be relevant and meaningful.
Aljan has been widely recognized as an inspiring professional speaker on the critical trends that will shape society in the decades to come. He works as the Head of Inspiration at TrendsActive, a trend consultancy from the Netherlands using social science to human-proof business decision for brands like
Next to his role at TrendsActive he is the Community Director at the Institute for Real Growth where he inspires and connects a global community of +400 CMOs.
He has been on the board of the Dutch Platform of Innovative Marketing for almost a decade. Regular speaker and moderator for the Dutch Marketing Awards and 3 times winner of the best of MIE.
Kees his purpose is to help ambitious leaders and brands to human-proof their business. In 2003 he founded TrendsActive, a trend consultancy enabling brands to become more human centric.
Kees consults global brands like
and many more.
Next to being the founder of TrendsActive, he is also initiator of the first academic trend master for executives at the University of Utrecht and is initiator of various trend studies and white papers on subjects like trust, meaning, visual culture & generations.