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Autodesk chief marketing officer Dara Treseder, Wharton professor Katy Milkman, and marketing consultant Nuno Leal spoke about branding during a TIME100 Talks panel._  by [Rebecca Schneid](https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/)  ## Rebecca Schneid Reporter Nov 19, 2025 4:00 AM UTC  by [Rebecca Schneid](https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/)  ## Rebecca Schneid Reporter Nov 19, 2025 4:00 AM UTC Authenticity and consistency in brand marketing allow for companies to not just be created but to be sustained with longevity, said Dara Treseder, the chief marketing officer at Autodesk. Courage, she said, is essential to build trust with consumers. “Having the courage to not only have purpose and value as a brand … but that stick-to-it-ness regardless of what comes your way—I think that is one of the things that helps you deepen that emotional connection with your customers and allows you to stand the test of time,” said Treseder, whose company Autodesk creates software for a variety of industries, from entertainment to infrastructure to design. She provided sustainability as an example of a value that Autodesk has been committed to prioritizing for years. Treseder’s comments came during a conversation with two other innovators and experts on consumer behavior and marketing at a TIME100 Talks event in New York City on Nov. 18, 2025\. Treseder was joined by Katy Milkman, professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania; and Nuno Leal, EY Studio+ America Marketing Practice Leader at consulting firm Ernst & Young LLP (EY); on a panel moderated by TIME executive editor Nikhil Kumar. Treseder went on to say that authenticity is just as important as commitment in order to keep trust with customers. “Authenticity is consistency,” she said. "Consistency between what you say, what you believe, and ultimately what you do. And when those three things are in harmony … that is ultimately how you earn trust.” Milkman, who studies behavioral economics, said that statistics support Treseder’s statements that consumers value consistency in brands, especially when it’s paired with powerful and empathetic storiesthat people can resonate with. “It’s critical both to have narratives and people who we can see in the narratives,” Milkman added. “When \[consumers\] have a story that they can associate with this company, they can see it has helped people and _how_ it’s helped people, that is much more powerful as a way of keeping them happy.” Treseder noted that authenticity has placed a lot of responsibility on brands like Autodesk in a changing world. She pointed to [Edelman’s 2025 Brand Trust report](https://www.edelman.com/trust/2025/trust-barometer/special-report-brands), released in June, which found that trust in brands has “soared” in recent years: 80% of people reported trusting brands they use, a larger percentage than trust in traditional institutions like media, government, and their employers. The panelists also emphasized that artificial intelligence will change the way we interact with everything, and they said brands are going to have to step up to the plate. That desire for consistency, Leal said, should not prevent brands from taking risks out of fear of making mistakes. If companies are too scared to take marketing risks, they are “avoiding taking the next step.” Leal provided the example of when he was talking about AI to a major company’s head of brand, and the executive immediately recoiled. “If your first reaction is not taking any risk and not taking any step, I think what will end up happening is that 80% of your brand will just be vanilla,” Leal said. “In my opinion, that’s one of the biggest risks: not risking anything.” The panelists agreed, however, that some companies are relying too much on AI and new technologies in a vacuum. Instead, they said, companies should use AI to help bolster their own human creativity and authenticity. “There’s some research showing that when either customers or entrepreneurs rely on AI in a vacuum, it can actually lead them to make worse decisions than if they had a mentor or a coach or a human in the loop, but when people rely on AI and have an AI coach as well as a mentor, that’s when you really see tremendous benefits,” Milkman said. “Think about how to make this experience and this shift more social, so that we’re not just relying on these tools in isolation, but they’re helping us in a community together.” The panel ended with the three panelists predicting how brands and marketing might change in five years. AI, they said, will not overtake the role that brand has in culture, if companies play their cards right. “I think you actually have to elevate brands in your organization,” Leal said, “and keep it insulated enough so it’s still coming from human beings and it's still fostering creativity.” _TIME100 Talks: Culture, Choice, and Change—Empowering Consumers was presented by PMI U.S._ ## Transcript So instead of me telling you about them, I thought we'd begin with you telling us all about yourselves. So, Dara, you first, just a quick introduction about what you do, um, and what you'd like the room to know about what you do. Yeah, well. Hi, everyone. Good to see you all. I'm Dara Treseder. I'm the chief marketing officer at Autodesk. Autodesk? We're a leading designer make company. So our software is used to design and make anything, whether it's buildings we live in, working products we use and love, or movies and games that entertain us. And what do I want you to know about me? Well, I'm really excited about wicked for good coming out soon. Um, that's a good one. I see it everywhere. Um, my name is Nuno Leal. Uh, great to be here. You see Ernst Young LLP there. That seems like an accountant. I am not an accountant. I am in the advisory side of UI. And what we do is we basically advise large brands on what to do in marketing and branding. And so hopefully I can share some of that here and some of the lessons learned that we had. Uh, And Katie. Hi, I'm Katie Milkman, also thrilled to be here. I am a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and I study the science of behavior change. I'm also the podcast host for Charles Schwab of Choice ology, and an author. And I co-direct a research center called the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. Our executive director is in the back, Dina Graham. It's a great podcast. I listen to it and it was very, very good. Um, so let's start. Let's start with you, Dara. And you introduced Autodesk a bit over there. Um, I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that in sort of the worlds of design architecture, high end engineering, you're kind of like the Apple in that world, right? You're sort of essential. Thank you. I'm just accurate. Um, and and what's I think, not obvious to a lot of people is that you haven't been around that long, right? It's only about four decades. So how do you do that? How does a brand become that? And more importantly, how do you sustain that? Yeah, I think that's such a you know, that's actually one of the reasons that I was so attracted to come and work at Autodesk is because this company was created with a purpose that continues to exist even after four decades, which is if we're going to design and make things, how can we design and make them better, and how can we design and make them better? Not just for some people, but for all people? And I think that is why we have actually, that is what has sustained us over the last four decades. We have stayed true to our purpose. So one of the things that I'm really passionate about is before sustainability was cool and everyone was talking about it, it was very important to Autodesk when it was cool and everyone joined the party. Hey, we were happy to have you with us. And then now that you know, in some places it's maybe not as cool, we're still continuing to talk about it. So I think having the courage to not only have purpose and value as a brand, but doing what I like to call opined with the spine, which is you stick with it, you have that stick to itness regardless of what comes your way. I think that is one of the things that helps you deepen that emotional connection with your customers and allows you to stand the test of time. So. So just off that, Nuno, um, let's say I want to do this. I want to brand like Autodesk. I'm just starting out. I have a snazzy new product. You advise a lot of people who come to you companies, can we get a bit of free advice. So how do you begin to go down this road where you end up where Dara's companies ended up? Uh, so first of all, you have to convince your CEO that you should spend money on it. And, um, I say this half laughing, but it is true that in my opinion, brands have lost a little bit of empowerment and branding teams and the brand side of things over performance marketing, of course. Um, and, and obviously the online communities and creation and social media made it even harder. There's just way more, uh, around us. And I think the first thing that you would need is actually a case of why you need a brand. And arguably, um, in the future, the brand is going to be much more important than it is now. Like if you think about, uh, all the friction that will be removed, if you really think about a world that is AI assisted and you know, all the flows, all the purchases, agentic, uh, people will just pay attention to what you have to say, and you better have a purpose, and you better have an activated purpose, that you better be authentic. And people know that you're actually vouching for it. And if you don't, I think it's more existential than anything. Um, at its core, besides making the case for brand, brand starts at the center of the organization. So to your point, um, if you don't have a purpose, I think it's very hard to have a brand. So our first thing is center in what your values are, and let's start building from that because the brand is not your activation just in a marketing sense. It's the activation for everything. And then from that there is a set of things to do. But if you don't have that first point, it's very hard to start anything. So, Katie, if I could just flip what we just, you know, uh, some of the lessons that we just picked up, right? A company that's done it, how new companies might do it, building a brand. But the other side is customers, right? What keeps them engaged and what keeps them coming to brands, do you think? That's a great question. Um, I think there are many different answers to that. Right. Um, one of the things that keeps people engaged is a great product, but certainly also if you have a story, um, that can be really powerful. One of the things we know from science is that people connect much more when there are individual stories about people that they resonate with, rather than sort of statistics about why I should love this brand, but when when they have a story that they can associate with this company, uh, they can see it. It's helped people and how it's helped people. That is much more powerful as a way of, um, of keeping them happy. And is that story? I mean, is there something about reiterating that or does that happen organically? Um, consistency is certainly important to brands, right? If you have one message one year and another, and I think this speaks to what you're saying, Dara, you really stick with it. Once you, um, decided that you were going to be a brand that was committed to climate change and addressing these issues, right? So, um, that stick to it is important when a brand is flip flopping or a person is flip flopping, we become less trusting. And so it's critical both to have narratives, people who we can see in the narratives. And then that kind of consistency can be really valuable to. Um, so, Dara, just on that point of consistent consistency, if I can pronounce it right, um, just pulling on that thread about something that people like me think about a lot, which is trust, right? Time. One of the critical things I'd say, a central critical thing that we have is trust, which has been built up over decades. Um, how do you do that with a consumer product? I mean, I suppose consistency is part of it, but what else do you do with a consumer product to build trust and maintain that trust? Yeah. You know, trust is one of those things, right? It's earned in drops and lost in buckets. And so at the end of the day, what is a brand? A brand is the sum of the promises you make and the experiences you deliver. So with every promise you make or break and every experience you deliver or don't deliver, you are building trust. And you know as a brand that trust matters. You know. Edelman's most recent trust report showed how people trust brands more than institutions now, more than government, more than media. Brands are actually what people have the most trust in today as a brand. Earning that trust and continuing to earn that trust is so critical. And one of the ways you do that is by being authentic. Authenticity is consistency. Consistency, consistency between what you say, what you believe, and ultimately what you do. And when those three things are in harmony, and you're doing that through every promise, every narrative, every story, every experience. That is ultimately how you earn trust. And what I will say is, you know, in today's world where there there's a spotlight on every one of us, we can't always be perfect. So as a brand, you can make a mistake. What do you do when you make a mistake? Do you own it and do you fix it? Or do you try to pretend that you didn't? And I think when you own it and you fix it, you're actually that that can be a way you can rebuild and re-earn trust. But when you make a mistake as a brand, you have that inconsistency. Maybe there's a break between what you say or what you believe or what you do, but you don't own it and you don't fix it. I think that's where you have lasting damage to trust. Anything to add on that because, you know, like how do you, depending on what has happened that requires you to own the mistake? I suppose part of this, the magnitude of the mistake. Right. What's gone wrong? But what else is there beyond owning it? I was about to comment. I couldn't agree more. um, like, I'll tell you. Like, from working with 20 large brands, what I see is a really, like, a fear of risking anything. And in fact, when you're not saying anything, that you take some risk, then it's meaningless. You're just like avoiding taking that next step. You can you can be authentic and make sure, like, you can make mistakes and that's fine. But the worst thing you can do is not claiming or not taking the next step. I'll give you an example. I, um, I was, um, playing with a large brand. The head of brand. And I don't know if you guys already played with Sora, uh, the OpenAI app. And I'm obsessed with the new mediums that can can create, but effectively, you can create a video and then everyone can prompt it and create some variations of that. I can just see the stuff that we can do. But anyways, I just said the word and I was like, no, no, no, no, no, that's, that's that's just like fake videos, fake things. So if your first reaction is not taking any risk and not taking any step, I think what will end up happening is that 80% of the brands will just be in oblivion and, you know, just be vanilla. And in my opinion, that's one of the biggest risks, is not risking anything. So, I mean, you've given me a very good segue to my next question, which is about how things are changing with new technologies and so on. So, Katie, how have just touched on this in her introduction about online communities. Um, how is that affecting brands and what do brands need to be aware of as this landscape seems to change sometimes on a weekly, sometimes on a daily basis, even as we get new releases of these softwares and technologies and so on. Yeah, it's a great question. Well, one thing that comes to mind is, um, how shifting norms affect the way we perceive, um, what we should be doing with our time and how brands have to manage that. So, um, when we see that there is a small but growing number of people who are taking a new action, adopting a new product, we can sort of extrapolate that that trend is growing. And when it's emphasized to us, it changes our behavior when the majority of people aren't adopting some new technology. You might worry that this sort of lack of familiarity is going to be a real barrier to change, but being able to emphasize the growth is really critical to making people comfortable with new technologies. So that's one thing I would point to from the research that can be helpful is, as brand managers, when you see growth in a new technology, even if it's something that feels foreign people aren't comfortable with yet, you have the opportunity to really emphasize the trend. And those trend lines are something that research shows dramatically change our behavior. We're much more comfortable, even if it's not normal yet hearing, oh, it's growing, we'll jump on that bandwagon. So the company is emphasizing the trend, you mean? Exactly. Yeah. So as a marketer, to the extent that you want to help people become comfortable with a new product that you're releasing or with a new set of behaviors they're going to need to adopt in this changing marketplace, one of the opportunities you have is to frame the narrative by emphasizing those growing trends to the extent that they're aligned with what you want to see people doing. Otherwise, people may be a little bit nervous to to jump on board with something that still has a small market share. Um, Nuna, you talked a little bit about this already, but like the need to take risk, right? Some of that is. And Katie just pointed out the importance of emphasizing some of these trends. Some of this surely is also about what risks you should take, what trends you should emphasize. How do companies do that with their brands? Um, I think you have to all. If you're a marketer, you always have to win a share of your cultural space. Um, and that's something that a lot of times we advise, a lot of companies are very obsessed with, you know, ROI. How much am I spending on paid and brand? But in fact, what you want is having a share of organic relevance of whatever category you're on, you're on. So a lot of times, like, I'll give you a very concrete example. A lot of companies don't spend enough time on organic content on on social media, for example, they spent a lot of time thinking about paid campaigns. And in fact, if you're playing sports, if part of your sports and NFL like you have to have a share of attention on that. And I think that's shifting. That shifts every time there's a new technology. I just give an example with Zora, with AI creation. But you have to be paying attention to that. And your KPIs should be are people in my category really seeing me the way I want as a brand in where they're spending time? And that is a very hard mental model to have if you're just thinking internally as a company. So, so from the theory to practice, like how have you guys done it? How has Autodesk done it? How have you as a marketer, um, brought this technology into how you think about the brand and what to do with it next, as, as our entire technology landscape changes? Yeah, absolutely. I think first of all, we center it on our customers what matters most to our customers. And we start with, I think, empathy. Seth said empathy. You have to always start with understanding where your customers are, how you can meet them, where they are, and then take them beyond that. But you first of all have to have that cultural fluency. And so we use technology as a way to help us better understand what our customers needs are and how we can center the experience based on them. So to give a kind of concrete example, here we are right now, of course, everyone is talking about AI, ai, AI, right? You can't get to any. I'm from Silicon Valley, so almost every dinner I'm like, can we have a non AI dinner please? Right. This is just the topic du jour that everyone's talking about. But I thought, you know, there are three things that we're focusing on with my team of how we're using AI. So I'm having 100% of my marketers, every single marketer within my organization is upskilling with AI. And we're focusing on three things. Number one, personalization. How can we use AI to remove friction for our customers and meet them where they are? Right? One of the most challenging things about personalization is doing it in a way where you're having a conversation and you're delivering value, as opposed to just interrupting your customer's day. I'm sure you've all gotten those emails. Hi, Dara. It's like, well, why did you send me that? I don't care about this. This is not something that's interesting to me. But when you meet me where I am and you're solving a problem for me, all of a sudden that interaction helps me build trust. So making sure that we're using AI to help us scale personalization. The second thing that we're using AI to do is actually help us analyze data to make better decisions, right? We all sit on data swamps, you know, remember that time when data is everything? Everyone's collecting first party data, all the data. Now with AI, we can finally do something with that data. And so making sure that everyone in my organization has an understanding of the tools we have available and how they can utilize those tools to use data to make better decisions. And we want to put decisions closer to, um, the decision makers. Right? So we don't want every decision going all the way up. One of the things when you can analyze data is you can actually push it down in the organization. So the people most like, for example, if someone's on social media, we want to make sure they have insight into how can we start creating more organic content or utilizing more UGC that our customers are making. So pushing that decision making down, I think is really important. And then the third thing I would say, in terms of how we're utilizing AI and some of the new technology is, is, is essentially helping people get comfortable with how content creation is changing. So we're team human, right? As a designer may company, we really believe in human ingenuity. AI is lifting the floor, but it's actually human ingenuity that is going to raise the ceiling. So it's not about everyone has access. Well, soon everyone will have access to all these tools. So it's not just about, oh, I can now use this to make content. Well, if everyone's using Sora to make content and yours is looking just like everyone else, you're not going to actually cut through the noise. So how do we bring human ingenuity and start to learn how to be not what I call second hand thinkers, right? You know, it's like, okay, well, everyone's using the same prompt, but a first hand thinker. You have an idea. An AI is helping you make that better. So those are some of the things that we're focused on. As a journalist. Can I just say I hear you? Um, but, Katie, if if I could just take you up on that last point in particular, how people's behaviors are changing as, as, you know, as these new technologies enter our lives and our sort of digital bloodstream. Um, so, uh, well, we talked about Sora and what it's doing and other technologies doing this. How are people what does that do to we talked about trust. What does it do to trust? Does it make it really almost impossible for people sometimes to build that trust? Because consumers are quite skeptical and they're quite smart. Like, how is that changing? Yeah, it's a great question. I mean, one of the things that we study is status quo bias, which is the comfort we have with the situation we're used to. Right? I'm used to my current technologies. I'm used to my current habits, and so anything that's going to rip me away from that is very challenging for people. Right. We we really push hard against it. Um, and so that can be a trust challenge for certain. I think one of the things that we know about reducing status quo bias and overcoming it, that that is important and useful here is, um, that we really want to push people to try to experiment when they're not sure of what to do so that they can find what it is that makes them more comfortable that they can, um, not feel like, you know, there's only one path, but there's a multitude of paths, and there are choices available so that it doesn't feel quite as frightening to to move away from where I am, knowing that if I move in a direction I don't like, I can I can still shift. So, um, pushing people to experiment, I think is really important. And then one other thing I would say about AI that I think is really interesting and worth everybody considering, um, there's some research showing that when, um, either customers or entrepreneurs Rely on AI in a vacuum, it can actually lead them to make worse decisions than if they had a mentor or a coach or a human in the loop. But when people rely on AI and have an AI coach as well as a mentor, that's when you really see tremendous benefits. Um, and so I think another important thing is we're moving into this new era besides sort of pushing people to experiment, uh, in order to make status quo bias go away is also think about how to make this experience and this shift more social so that we're not just relying on these tools in isolation, but but they're helping us in a community together. Um, Nuna, have you seen that? I wonder, like people not having people in the loop, which is a terrible sentence, but you know what I mean? That that relying too much on these technologies, um, just in a vacuum, as Katie said, 100%. And, you know, the first time I played with ChatGPT for on the AI topic, I thought, okay, this is going to elevate everyone's average and especially the people that have less experience. And the more I started playing with it, the more I actually, the more I actually turned my head into the people with more resources, social support, more experience, more education will actually be exponentially better. Not the way around. And so, yes, 100%, I think it's your set of resources which include the support that you have from other people that by using those tools you become much better at your at your job and you can do much more other things. And in marketing too, like content and anything you can think of. So I actually see it the same way, and I actually think that the best way to do like you guys are doing is empowering people with those tools, but also with resources around it on how to use it and how to support them to use them. So we don't have a lot of time left. So if I could just ask one question to all of you, we've talked a lot about how things are changing the rapid pace of change. So if I could ask all of you to take out your crystal balls and tell me that. What do you think we're going to be talking about when it comes to branding and marketing five years from now? I'm just going to make you make a prediction, which, you know, do you want to go first or. Sure. Um, uh, you know, I would say five years from now, I think we are still talking about the role that brand is playing in culture. Um, I think that that's something that it's only going to become even more important, especially as we have new technologies coming on the scene. And I think creating opportunities for almost everyone to have a voice. So your brand is the first impression of your brand is no longer shaped by you, the brand, but it is now shaped by what others are saying about you. I agree, and I would say brand will be more important and you have to isolate enough brands to do what a human creativity should do. You cannot let it blend too much into data and technology and lose that power. So I think you actually have to elevate brand in your organization and keep it insulated enough. So it's it's still coming from human beings and it's still fostering creativity. And I would say that I think differentiation is going to be more important than ever, because AI is going to have changed the way we interact with everything, and it will be present in so many products that it's going to be more critical to understand if everything's powered by an LLM, what's really differentiating one product from another, they're all talking, you know, and so you're going to have to develop a way to have that differentiation, the personality, the way that your LLM and your product differs from all the others, I think will be more important than ever. Fantastic. Well, let's check in in five years. Um, on that note, thank you, uh, all of you, for doing this. 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