The creative company for a new era—we are creators of enduring value.

We help leaders build brands with presence. Identities that are not just seen, but felt.

We bring an integrated strategy, design, and change practice to deliver coherence and creative expression across every dimension of brand, inside and out.

Clients we've helped

Capabilities

We leverage expertise in the following disciplines to develop brands, programs, and campaigns that help teams become who they intend to be.

Brand Strategy

Listening
Insights
Market/Culture Mapping
Positioning
Voice

Innovation

Product/Service Concepts
Research and Evaluation
Pipeline Development

Design

Digital
Print
Motion
Branded Environments
Sonic branding

Thought Partnership

Advisory
Training
Coaching
Long-form Messaging

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Don’t
  Chase

          Most brands push. Hard. Constantly. More ads. More content. More noise. And still nothing moves. That's not a marketing problem. That's a gravity problem. At 40 Hearts, we build brands that pull. The kind that earn attention instead of demanding it. That make decisions feel obvious, trust feel immediate, and momentum feel inevitable. We call it Create Gravity, and it's the only thing we do. Not because it's a clever framework. Because it's the only thing that actually changes how a business moves through the world.When a brand has gravity, marketing becomes amplification. Sales get easier. Teams get faster. Opportunities come toward you instead of being chased down. When it doesn't, no amount of spending fills the void. We work with leadership teams who already know something is off. The brand is active but not attracting. Moving but not pulling. Visible but somehow forgettable.We fix that. Not with a rebrand. Not with a campaign. With a rebuilding of the conditions that make gravity possible; clarity, conviction, alignment, and strategic orbit. It's immersive work. It's not for everyone. But for the right companies, it changes everything.

Attract

Where we focus

Our projects are designed to support business transformation from the inside out, usually centering around one or more of the following aspects of the brand.

Identity

How is your team's self-concept informed by your market, geography, industry, values, motivations, beliefs, and style?

Solutions

Center of Gravity
Identify the beliefs, values, ethics, motivations, and fulfillment criteria that anchor everything else

Position and Trajectory
Define your market, headwinds and tailwinds, opportunities, mission, and vision

Persona and Voice
Explore, co-create, and develop visual, verbal, and behavioral modes of expression

Embodiment

How does your team inhabit their identity? How do you stay grounded and present while bridging who you are with how you show up?

Solutions

Somatic Attunement
Create systems, protocols, and programs that promote deep listening, organizational awareness, and fidelity to your own values under pressure

Pattern Mapping
Identify and name organizational parts, their rhythms and habits, and any unexamined patterns driving behavior beneath the surface

Orientation & Change Management
Design and implement practices that help your people access and sustain a shared state of calmness, curiosity, compassion, confidence, courage, clarity, creativity, and connectedness

Internal Voice
Define a consistent and reliable employer brand — the language, materials, and channels through which the organization speaks to itself honestly and with care

Resilience and Steadiness
Build the structures, rhythms, and practices that keep your organization regulated and cultivate your capacity to receive challenge, sit with uncertainty, and make clear decisions without reactive lurching

Activation

What does your organization do as a consequence of your shared values and beliefs; in the products you ship, the rooms you enter, the people you hire, the causes you champion?

Solutions

Innovation Pipeline
Generate, evaluate, and develop new product, service, or program concepts that extend your mission into new territory

Market Presence
Define where you show up, why, and how, identifying channels, audiences, partnerships, and the strategic logic that connects them

Brand Roadmapping
Chart the long-term arc of your brand's evolution mapping milestones, pivots, and the through-line that keeps growth legible and intentional

Campaign Strategy, Design, and Assets
Develop the concepts, creative, and materials that carry your identity into the world with consistency and impact

Branded Experiences
Design physical, digital, and hybrid environments and events that make your identity felt, not just seen

User and Employee Journeys
Map and improve the lived experience of the people who encounter your brand, from first touch to deep belonging

Gathering and Offsite Design
Create the conditions for your team to think clearly, connect genuinely, and leave with shared momentum

Identity

How is your team's self-concept informed by your market, geography, industry, values, motivations, beliefs, and style?

Center of Gravity

Position and Trajectory

Persona and Voice

Digital Experience for experimentation

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