#culturalintelligence — Perspectives | Marketing, AI, and Growth

Optima IQ Perspectives, essays by Ingrid Reyes on brand strategy, culture, and AI.

Perspectives

Over two decades inside the boardrooms where brands get made, and unmade, have given me a particular point of view: what actually works, what is wildly overrated, and what is coming next before most people see it.

Culture. Consumer behavior. AI and the way it is rewriting how brands reach people. The intersection of data and lived experience that most marketers talk about and few actually inhabit. That is my world, and this is where I unpack it.

No recycled hot takes. No agency-speak. Just sharp, honest thinking from someone who has been in it long enough to know the difference between a trend and a transformation.

Pull up a chair. It is about to get interesting.

Ingrid Reyes

Ingrid Reyes-Founder & CEO, Optima IQ

Posts tagged #culturalintelligence

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