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Melanie Piard

Visionary · DISC type Ds
Founder at The Brand Scales
📍 Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area, Canada

Melanie Piard is the founder of The Brand Scales, an advisory firm focused on brand strategy for scaling companies. She helps leadership teams align brand, product, and strategy during periods of growth, transition, and integration. Colleagues and clients describe her as dedicated, creative, courageous, and an outstanding mentor with a fresh and relevant perspective.

Outside of her advisory work, Melanie is a writer and speaker, sharing insights on brand coherence, culture, and the relationship between strategy and creativity. She actively participates in industry events like Blackweek NYC and the Infopresse Summit, demonstrating a passion for continuous learning and exploring the intersection of identity and brand narratives.

She has won awards for her creative and technical work on campaigns for Spiegelworld and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation.

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Current Role
Founder
Location
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area, Canada
Personality Overview

How Melanie shows up

Goal-Oriented
Direct & Assertive
Big Vision Person

They are very professional in their approach and can weigh multiple perspectives together. They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time. Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them.

Priorities

Topics Melanie cares about

Brand Strategy
Her core focus is helping companies use brand as a decision-making tool to guide hiring, innovation, and market positioning, especially during periods of growth and change.
Brand-Consumer Trust
She has spoken about the need for brands to build genuine trust by listening and creating collective experiences, moving beyond superficial metrics like views and likes.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Founder
The Brand Scales
3-2024 - 2-2025
Brand Marketing Director
Fresh Prep
10-2023 - 12-2023
Marketing Director
Cook it
6-2023 - 10-2023
Brand Director
Cook it
1-2022 - 6-2023
Head Of Brand & Creative
LANDR Audio Inc.
In the press

Media appearances

Your brand is the problem. Featured in Medium (The Brand Scales)
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Education
2021 - 2021
Mini MBA
MiniMBA
2013 - 2013
Certified Credit Executive
Concordia University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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