Are you a storyteller, a healer, a marketing specialist, a campaigner, a strategist, or someone simply trying to make people care about something?
Welcome home. 🥰
Welcome to Orange Academy, Africa’s first practical school of Integrated Brand Experience and storytelling.
Here, ordinary people find their voice and use it to create extraordinary things.
Hit play below to hear from “Orange Minds,” our award-winning alumni! Local hands building global brands👇
Get to know us
Since 2008, we’ve trained dreamers, makers, and storytellers to help reimagine a kinder world one brand story at a time. We refer to these individuals as “Orange Minds.”
Orange Minds
Orange Minds create powerful brand experiences and use creativity to make the world a little better than they met it.
Is that you?
Orange Academy Storytelling lab
Our Storytelling lab convenes Humans In Conversation, global conversations about the human body and how we construct its narratives.
👉READ MORE about HIC here.
Our Faculty
At Orange Academy, we work with internationally acclaimed faculty and collaborators who are shaping the future of branding and storytelling.
Our professors are practitioners: CEOs, researchers, consultants, and creatives who teach what they practice.
They bring real-world experience into the classroom, helping you bridge the gap between theory and practice.
👉 Read more about our faculty here
What we do
Story-driven. Human-centred. Globally recognised.
At Orange Academy, we use storytelling to teach strategic skills that shape brands, rally communities, and inspire meaningful change.
Our core programmes include:
Brand Strategy
Product & Service Design
Human-Centred Design (HCD)
Marketing Communications
Social Change & Innovation
Personal Branding (What’s Your Story?)
Our teaching is practical, collaborative, and immersive, led by industry practitioners and built around real-world challenges.
We also deliver private training sessions for institutions and organisations, helping teams strengthen their storytelling capacity from within.
👉 Curious how we can support your team? Ask us
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Integrated Brand Experience, IBX, is Orange’s signature curriculum. You learn how to create a powerful story for your brand or cause, and then weave that story into all your activities - from your logo to your events, and even how you send your email.
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As humans, we have a unique ability to tell stories. This is one of the things that sets us apart from animals. We don't just go through experiences. We store them in our memories using stories. We retrieve them through stories and recreate them through stories. If you want to connect with your audience meaningfully, try stepping into the storytelling arena and meeting people where they are.
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Disney - there’s a child in all of us who learns through play. The Disney brand is built around this powerful human truth and it shows even in how they hire their staff. For example, Disney employees aren't called theme park workers – they're called “Cast Members.” Everyone is on stage. The IBX curriculum takes you through the stages of creating such magic.
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Our IBX program welcomes individuals from different disciplines, including new graduates, established professionals, and creators who share a common goal of creating something memorable. Participants in the program have gone on to pursue careers as copywriters, content creators, chief storytellers, designers, entrepreneurs, marketing directors, creative directors, socialpreneurs, and individual artists, all working towards making a positive impact.
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The four key marketing concepts underlining most of our programs at Orange are: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. These four concepts outline how to position and sell a product effectively. In addition, understanding the market and customer segmentation is crucial for tailoring marketing strategies to specific groups.
Finally, brand positioning and differentiation are critical, as they determine a brand's unique value proposition and how it stands out in a competitive marketplace.
“Everyone is born to create something.”
— Orange Alumn, Viviene Odofin