MODA did not happen overnight. It was built deliberately, over time, through real work, real results, and real experience.
At MODA, we don’t deal in hypotheticals. Everything we teach, advise, and coach is grounded in lived experience, tested frameworks, and years spent working alongside leaders and organizations navigating growth, pressure, and change.
Today, MODA serves companies across the Fortune 100–500, along with private firms, associations, universities, startups, and entrepreneurial leaders. From advising executive teams to coaching senior leaders through pivotal career moments, MODA was built on a single foundational belief: brand drives everything.
We help individuals and organizations clearly articulate who they are, why they exist, and how they create value — so trust is built, credibility is reinforced, and opportunity follows.
Excellence
We believe our clients deserve our best. Excellence is not an aspiration at MODA; it is a standard. We show up prepared, committed, and accountable to the outcomes we help create.
Faith
Faith is foundational to who we are. We believe every person was created with purpose and inherent value, and that meaningful work is about helping individuals and organizations live into that purpose. What we do goes beyond branding — it is about alignment, stewardship, and service.
Integrity
Integrity is the bedrock of MODA. It guides our decisions, shapes our culture, and defines how we lead. Integrity, especially when tested, is non-negotiable.
Passion
We are deeply passionate about helping people and companies reach their potential. Because brand drives everything, we work relentlessly to help our clients strengthen clarity, culture, leadership, and trust. Passion shows up in how we serve, lead, and build momentum alongside our clients.
NOTE FROM OUR CEO
I believe every person has immense value and was created with purpose. After more than 20 years of coaching and consulting, I’ve seen firsthand how often people and organizations fall short — not because of lack of talent, but because of misalignment, poor messaging, or underdeveloped brand and leadership clarity.
MODA began as a way to help individuals reach their goals through brand and image. It quickly evolved into something much larger: helping organizations succeed by strengthening the people inside them. Brand became the unifier — the thread connecting leadership, culture, communication, and performance.
I am deeply motivated by seeing people overlooked, promotions missed, and companies struggle unnecessarily because brand and leadership were not aligned. These failures are preventable.
Brand, leadership, and service are why I do this work. While MODA has grown, my commitment to helping people and organizations be their best has not changed. I am humbled and grateful to serve alongside a team whose experience has been earned through decades of doing the work — not just studying it.
Your company is missing out if you haven’t engaged Mila and her team at Moda Image Consulting to invest in your people. To hear Mila speak to a group of leaders and see people emotionally moved gives me chill bumps every time. You owe it to your clients, your shareholders, and your employees to invest in Mila and Moda.
Amanda H Weeks-Geveden, CWS
Senior Vice President & Managing Director / U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management
The Tennessee Hospital Association has been around for 81 years and had a very strong brand. Like any other organization with that length of service, that brand can also get stale. Thanks to MODA and Mila Grigg, our brand has been refreshed and is stronger than ever. Our brand is our members, the patients they care for and being a leader in healthcare innovation.
Craig Becker
CEO / Tennessee Hospital Association
I have known Mila for years, and she is my “go-to” advisor on all things branding, whether corporate or personal. She delivers a class for one of my leadership programs, and is always one of the participants’ favorites. She is the ultimate professional, and I value our working relationship and friendship. She’s the best!
Mary Fink
VP / Solution Service
Moda Image and Brand Consulting has been engaged with the Tennessee Hospital Association for the last 2 years. Mila Grigg, President and CEO has personally directed our entire project. What began as a one time speaking engagement for staff has grown to include leadership counseling with up and comers, marketing development with multiple departments and direction of a rebranding campaign for the entire organization and the hospital industry across Tennessee. Her intuition regarding individual and corporate situations allows her to get to the heart of what needs to be accomplished in order to bring about the greatest possible gain. She can be tough when she needs to be tough, but brings heart when that is called for as well. Her commitment to her clients success is obvious in her day to day dealings with leadership and staff.
James L. Goodloe
Senior Vice President
Mila has worked with the Colliers International I Nashville team and our national marketing and research leadership team, and has ‘wowed’ them all with her professionalism, her strong branding messaging, and her sheer presence. I cannot recommend her anymore highly.
Janet Miller
CEO & Market Leader & Partner / Colliers-International
There is no way I would be at Microsoft without the time and effort of working with MODA, e.g. Mila. She is one of the best coaches and has an ability to listen with both her ears and eyes - taking in the client's aspirations and bringing them to reality, while understanding it is a journey and growth occurs over time.
Arlene Carter
Nissan
As automation transforms business interpersonal skills and presentation become differentiators. We want the same care and consistency shown in our technical skills to be reflected in each of our relationships. We’re aggressively future-proofing our associates with the tools to reflect the best version of themselves and our organization before our prospects and customers. Mila and her team have been effective and engaging partners in this strategic vision – assisting us with workshops for new and emerging leaders, consultation with affinity groups, personalized coaching, and tailored programs for invitation-only events offered to regional business leaders.
John Dunavan
Director, Learning & Development / LBMC
I had been following Mila Grigg on LinkedIn for more than a year so I pre-ordered this book as soon as I heard about it. I read it over one very long and enjoyable Saturday - I just could not put it down, then I read the chapter called "Social Media is not a Choice." That chapter and the following three chapters closed the deal for me. I am a College Professor teaching Marketing. Every one of my students will read this book before they graduate! It gives a clear message about "Why" and "How" for Personal Branding."
Amazon Review
Every College Student needs to read this book! And All of Mine Will!
This book should be required reading for every college graduate who is planning to enter the world of business. Part 5 should be required of everyone who plans on being a manager.
It is an easy read, but ever so fundamental to success in business and in life. Highly, highly recommend this book to people of all ages, but particularly to those at the beginning of their career.
Amazon Review
Wow!!!!!!
In Forged by Fire, Mila shares her life experiences while teaching us the power and importance of solid personal branding. And yet, what I found most valuable is that her wisdom about branding applies to life in general. Be purposeful. Build a legacy. Use the gifts God has given you. Her book's writing style and layout make it easy to read, understand, and implement. Forged by Fire is an excellent, genuinely impactful gift for any business person wanting to make their way in the world.
Mila is one of the strongest business leaders I know, and her personal brand reflects that beautifully. We could all learn from her example.
Amazon Review - Patricia Shea
Brilliant guide to building a personal brand and purposeful life
I met Mila Grigg years ago and worked with her to bring a part of this book's content to our company's employees in various training seminars. She had so much great insight into how one's appearance, speech, communication and online content builds success and those training seminars are still referenced ten years later. I have started reading the book and am so thankful to see her put all of that material and so much more into writing. I intend to buy this book for all our managers as its message needs to be heard. The added personal story, much of which I was unaware of, just adds to this being an impactful book to your thinking.
Amazon Review - Past Company Client
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to help you understand the basic building blocks of success
I meet Mila at SHRM meeting in 2017. Her speech was authentic, real, and passionate about her work and life. I went up and talked with her and wanted to work with her and asked what the process is. The book forged by fire is so appropriate for her life and reinforces her passion for her work The book is just like her, authentic, vulnerable, real and with passion and empathy. The book will guide you appropriately on what are the important steps. Her story will change your life, as she has done mine. I am forever grateful. With so much respect for Mila. You will love her.
Amazon Review - Past Individual Client
She Changed My Life
Mila’s story that gets unpacked on the pages of her book, and pulls back the curtain of her journey through unthinkable depths and raw pain, it provides many insights into the origins of her fortitude and the price she has paid to gain it. Sometimes people casually throw around terms like “tried by fire” in Mila’s case, Forged by Fire is not a cliche, its a testimony of faith and perseverance. Have known her story for several years now, I am grateful that the world can now learn what makes this special woman such a force for good on the earth. I hope this is not her last book…..
Amazon Review -Blain Wease
Mila is a rare combination of strength, courage & wisdom, a voice worthy of listening to
Strong brands, like influential leaders, are built