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
- Office
- 1660 Genessee St., Suite A · Kansas City, MO · 64102 · 816.561.4189

Sources willoughbydesign.com, en.wikipedia.org, printmag.com · LinkedIn ↗
On this list
Also based in Kansas City
Describe the job. Get one branding agency back that fits it.
Two minutes. We read what you wrote, pick one provider from this list or our bench whose work matches it, and they contact you within a business day. Nobody else gets your details.
- Top marketing agencies in the Midwest →
- Top social media companies in the Midwest →
- Top digital marketing agencies in the Midwest →
- Top SEO companies in the Midwest →
- Top web design companies in the Midwest →
- Top advertising agencies in the Midwest →
- Top lead generation companies in the Midwest →
- Top fractional CMOs in the Midwest →
- Top PR firms in the Midwest →