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Willoughby Design

Willoughby Design is a brand strategy, design and digital development firm at 1660 Genessee Street in Kansas City, founded in 1978 by Ann Willoughby and now led by second-generation co-CEOs Megan Stephens and Nicole Satterwhite. The firm is 100 percent women-owned and nationally WBE-certified, and its site describes it as the longest continuously running woman-owned branding firm in the United States. Its work includes the RideKC Streetcar brand.

Why it’s hereNearly five decades in continuous operation as a woman-owned branding firm, with a founder profiled by PRINT and a Wikipedia entry documenting her career.

Listed at number 1 of the branding agencies in the Midwest. The order is editorial. This page repeats the fields recorded for Willoughby Design and does not add ratings, clients or prices that are not in those fields.

Based in
Kansas City, MO
Founded
1978
Led by
Megan Stephens and Nicole Satterwhite, Co-CEOs and Owners (founder Ann Willoughby is Principal Emeritus)
Known for
brand strategy · identity design · digital development · civic and place branding
Named clients
RideKC Streetcar
Best for
Organizations that want brand identity, packaging and physical environment design from a woman-owned (WBE) Kansas City firm running since 1978, including sports, transit and development clients like RideKC Streetcar and Woodside.
Selected work
  • Kansas City Current. Environmental design work for the women's soccer club. source ↗
  • Rock Springs Ranch. Core brand identity for the ranch and camp. source ↗
Office
1660 Genessee St., Suite A · Kansas City, MO · 64102 · 816.561.4189
Willoughby Design homepage, captured September 28, 2026
willoughbydesign.com · homepage on September 28, 2026

Sources willoughbydesign.com, en.wikipedia.org, printmag.com · LinkedIn ↗

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