Sunny Bonnell

About Sunny Bonnell

Sunny Bonnell is the award-winning Co-founder and CEO of Motto®, a strategic branding firm, and a Thinkers50 Radar honoree, which awards the brightest minds in the world. Named a ‘Visionary Brand Icon’ by SWAGGER, she is a Top 30 Global Gurus in Brand, GDUSA\'s Top 25 People to Watch, and a WEBBY Award winner. The WEBBY Awards described Sunny as “Setting the standard for innovation and creativity.” Sunny works with executive leadership teams to set visions, create big ideas, and inspire their culture to take action on that vision. Clients include: Minnesota Vikings Virgin Google Microsoft Klaviyo NFL Hershey’s Legendary Digital Disney Twentieth Century Fox Choice Hotels NCM Andela Goodnotes Sunny is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker for organizations like MasterCard, Microsoft, Dale Carnegie, Fast Company Innovation Festival, Inc, and Inspiring Workplaces. She\'s been featured in every major publication, including Forbes, Entrepreneur, and The Wall Street Journal. She has appeared on Closing Bell on the NY Stock Exchange, The Breakfast Club, and Yahoo Finance. She writes a popular and provocative leadership column for Fast Company with her Co-founder and partner in crime, Ashleigh Hansberger. Sunny and Ashleigh are the authors of Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different (Harper Collins, 2019) which flips the script on business as usual and carves a path for unconventional success. “The top 5 career books of all time.” — New York Post \"Brazen and a ruckus to make things better.” — Seth Godin “An entire windstorm of original thinking.” — USA Today Sunny\'s work is focused on dismantling status-quo practices and inspiring others to do big things. Founder, speaker, author, vision leader. wearemotto.com sunnybonnell.com

Experience

1. Inc Columnist

   Inc. Magazine

   Sep 2016 — Present

   Columnist for my column Change Makers & Rule Breakers

Education

• Savannah College of Art and Design

  Bachelor of Arts

  2005 — 2007

• Savannah College of Art and Design

  Master of Fine Arts

  2008 — 2011

Skills

• Branding & Identity
• Brand Development Strategy
• Corporate Identity
• Logo Design
• Web Design
• Packaging
• Graphic Design
• Art Direction
• Brand Development
• Brand Architecture
• Corporate Branding
• Creative Direction
• Social Media
• Advertising
• Collateral
• Strategy
• Entrepreneurship
• Branding
• Team Building
• Team Leadership
• Culture Change
• Magazines
• Online Marketing
• Social Networking
• Packaging Design
• Business Strategy
• Organizational Culture
• Leadership
• Strategic Vision
• Strategic Leadership
• Strategic Visionary
• Organizational Leadership
• Visionary Leadership
• Brand
• Innovation
• Culture