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Brand·2024-2026·Leadway Pensure PFA

Leadway Pensure: Brand & Communications

Leadway Pensure brand pitch hero: 'Your future, built with intention.'

01 · The problem

Leadway Pensure has spent over 20 years earning the trust of Nigerian workers. The brand equity is real: the camel mark, the orange, two decades of authority in the pension space. But the brand materials hadn't evolved to reach the workers who needed them most: employed Nigerians aged 25-45 who don't think about their pension until it's too late.

As an internal creative, the gap was visible every day. No one had built the case for fixing it. So this was done unprompted.

02 · The approach

A full brand extension pitch built around the brand's existing equity. Not a rebrand, an evolution. Nine sections delivered as a designed web document covering every surface where the brand needed to improve:

  • Product suite redesigns for all six Leadway Pensure offerings
  • Brand identity system with colour, type, and logo usage rules
  • Voice guidelines with explicit do/don't examples throughout
  • Eight social post templates ready for immediate use
  • Full brand guidelines document

The brand voice work was as rigorous as the visual work. Every guideline was written with a concrete example: lead with human outcome, never with jargon. Make the abstract concrete. Real numbers beat vague assurances. Premium brands don't shout.

03 · The outcome

A complete brand extension pitch delivered as a live web document. Not a PDF, not a slide deck. Interactive, shareable, designed to be read rather than skimmed.

Self-initiated. Built on the belief that the best brief is the one you write yourself when you can see the problem clearly and no one else is moving on it. The work demonstrates what happens when a designer has both the strategic conviction and the execution ability to make the case and deliver it in the same breath.

Project images

Leadway Pensure pitch: the brief, with company stats
Leadway Pensure pitch: product suite intro and Personal Pension Plan treatment
Leadway Pensure pitch: AVC, Asset & Fund Management, and Micro Pension Plan cards
Leadway Pensure pitch: brand colour palette with hex values and roles
Leadway Pensure pitch: typography scale from display to CTA label
Leadway Pensure pitch: six brand principles built around the camel mark
Leadway Pensure pitch: brand voice do/avoid examples
Leadway Pensure pitch: social post templates for Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and Facebook
Leadway Pensure pitch: logo usage across approved and prohibited backgrounds
Leadway Pensure pitch: spacing system on a base-8 grid

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