We helped UNESCO promote food sustainability by making the link between traditional food practices and modern lifestyles. We did this through creating a travelling exhibition and collateral.

We work with The Royal Anniversary Trust, supporting it in its management of the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education. Our role has been to freshen the public face of this prestigious scheme that recognises UK colleges and universities – helping build awareness, participation and commercial viability. See case study.

Pulse works alongside a number of other charities: Pulse founder, Simon Milton, is a trustee of the Social Business Trust, helping it in its mission to help outstanding social businesses to scale up; our work with Moneyline helped build an identity that would engage people seeking affordable loans; while with Artraker, we helped raise awareness of conflict resolution through art.

One of the UK’s most dynamic businesses, Abcam, sought our help in guiding its thinking at a time of great change for this pioneering bio-tech company.

Rumaila is the world’s third largest oilfield. Pulse has supported every aspect of this Iraqi operation’s communications for more than a decade. From articulating its vision, developing a visual identity and organisational values, to establishing and delivering multi-channel communications and on-site branding. See case study.

Pulse worked alongside bp Oman as it built one of the largest infrastructure projects in the world – the Khazzan gas field. Our role was to help engage the field’s workforce in a remote desert location and embed safety into the working culture in the build up to first production of gas.

We helped mining company, Glencore, to improve its workforce safety communications in Africa through a comprehensive design and content review, bringing to life the behaviour changes required to help keep everyone safe.

Pulse was appointed by Arup to help create an identity for a new initiative that focused on providing resilient and sustainable solutions to the critical infrastructures that societies depend upon. Our work involved the naming the initiative, the Resilience Shift, the development of a visual identity and initial messaging.

Our work for Schroders involves supporting the leadership team to help it to define and live the company’s purpose. With impact on people and planet an increasingly important consideration in managing customer investments, we are helping Schroders embed what it calls this ‘Third Dimension’. This involves gaining a deep understanding of all parts of Schroders and its customer base to help the company to take steps to shift its culture and demonstrate leadership. Over the past 20 years Pulse has supported several impact investment businesses, including Prince Max of Liechtenstein as he built LGT Lightstone (now Lightrock). This transformative private asset firm supports high-growth businesses operating in often highly challenging emerging economies, delivering financial as well as social and environmental returns. We helped develop a clear and compelling purpose and vision that stood out in an ever-crowded market.

Pulse supported Thomson Reuters Legal in development of its purpose and vision.  A key area of focus was the increasing importance of new technology-based solutions to help the European legal system to operate more effectively.  Our initial role was to delve into this broader purpose and assess how the different parts of Thomson Reuters was able to accelerate its impact.

Pulse worked with emerging market private equity specialist, Aureos, prior to it being acquired by Abraaj in 2012. Our primary role was to support the managing partner to identify and codify the approach it took to investing and managing portfolio businesses.  We called it Impact Investing Plus.  It combined traditional private equity thinking but also a very unique approach to helping innovative local businesses expand within the region. See case study.