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Identity and website

Foss

Client
Foss
Services
Brand identity, website design and build
Live site
mattfoss.com
Foss logos on two phones and a red tablet

Context

Foss is the executive coaching practice of Matt Foss, a former athlete turned CEO coach who works with founders, executives, and leadership teams across industries, from franchise operators to medical groups to performing arts. The practice spans coaching, organizational development, succession and exit planning, and high-impact workshops, anchored in a proprietary methodology: The Foss Method.

Challenge

Executive coaching is a category drowning in vague, interchangeable visual language: pastel gradients, generic stock photography, transformation clichés. Matt's actual work is the opposite. It's direct, standards-first, performance-focused, closer to elite athletic coaching than corporate consulting. The brand had to read the way the work feels: serious, sharp, unmistakably high-performance.

Approach

We built an identity around the discipline of high-performance sport and the precision of executive consulting. The mark uses bold, angular geometry, with strength, motion, and structure encoded in the shapes themselves. A confident red anchors the system, separating Foss from the muted neutrals that dominate the coaching space. Typography is bold and editorial. Site copy keeps the same posture: short, declarative, no filler. "Standards first. Results follow."

Outcome

A brand that announces what kind of coach Matt is before he says a word, and pre-qualifies the leaders he wants to work with. The site carries the credibility, so discovery conversations start at fit, not legitimacy. [TK: add metric, such as inbound coaching inquiries, conversion rate, or workshop bookings.]

The Foss wordmark in dark red on white
The Foss wordmark on a phone and the F symbol on a smartwatch
Foss print and digital collateral: a polo, a jacket, business cards, letterhead, a phone, and a cap
Matt Foss on stage and with audiences, from the photography guidelines
Custom Foss numerals, cut from the logomark, in red
The Foss palette: Carbon Black, Off-White, High-Vis White, and Fire Red
Foss YouTube banner and channel mockups
The Foss app icon in a dock beside Phone, Figma and Settings