Social media, networking events, reputation, these are all areas that are influenced by and can in turn influence your personal brand. They offer an opportunity to position yourself for what your best at, your genuine expertise. Be yourself - Be remarkable!
My mission
I believe that there is more to a business than what fits on a business card.
I believe that there is more to a person than their job title.
I believe that the Internet is re-educating us - making us expect more from every transaction, every interaction.
I believe that the Internet encourages and rewards niches.
I believe that you can tell a better story.
Personal brand coaches and consultants
A few folks besides me who can help you with your personal branding needs :)
- Dan Schawbel (web, blog)
Dan's specialty is personal branding for members of Generation Y. He's especially well known for his blog on personal branding, along with his book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success. - William Arruda (web, blog)
William literally wrote the book on building a personal brand to advance your career - Career Distinction: Stand Out By Building Your Brand - with his co-author Kirsten Dixon. William has worked with an amazing list of clients, including Disney, Microsoft, and American Express; he also helps up-and-coming brands as well. - Kirsten Dixson (blogsite)
Kirsten is an online identity expert and co-authored Career Distinction with William Arruda. She specializes in customized personal branding approaches and offers options for building online presences. Kirsten is one of the world's first to earn the Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist certification, a program that she now facilitates in addition to Reach's online identity certification program that she conceived. - Wendy Newman (web)
Wendy has over twenty years of marketing and branding experience, working for such companies as Starbucks. She offers personal branding services to high-profile professionals, focusing on authenticity. - Jan Melnik (web, blog)
As part of the career transition resources she offers, Jan offers clients online identity management. She particularly focuses on creating an online presence that will appear when prospective employers search for you. - Liz Lynch (web, blog)
Liz's book Smart Networking is just recently out: it reflects her talents in helping clients build a great network and mass-following both online and in-person. Liz offers several levels of coaching. - Stacia Williams (web, blog)
Stacia uses her image consulting skills to help clients manage every aspect of their personal brands. She helps a wide variety of clients, including executives, entrepreneurs, and politicians. - Anna Farmery (web, blog)
Anna offers advice on social media strategies and using social media to create brands. In addition to her consulting, Anna's blog and podcast are very successful and have been nominated for numerous awards. - Hajj Flemings (web, blog)
Hajj's book, The Brand YU Life, covers branding in some depth. He also teaches personal brand management at Michigan Technological University, as well as speaking regularly about brand management. - Catherine Kaputa (web, blog)
Catherine offers her clients with the tools to think of themselves as products, helping to create brands for both professionals and entrepreneurs. Catherine has a book due out in 2009 focusing on how women, in particular, can brand themselves effectively. - Phil Gerbyshak (blog)
Phil uses social marketing to promote personal brands. In addition to coaching clients through a wide variety of new media, Phil also speaks on a regular basis to larger groups. - Louise Kursmark (web, blog)
Louise's background includes 26 years of resume writing and other outplacement services. She can offer advice on branding yourself during a career search - and help make that search a success. - Abby Locke (web, blog)
Abby has created personal brand solutions for a variety of executives and corporate leaders. She's a Certified Personal Branding Strategist and can help build an online presence. - Sally Witzky (web, blog)
Sally has transitioned from marketing such clients as Mercedes-Benz to helping clients build their own brands. In addition to her personal brand consulting, Sally also offers coaching for speaking and online brands. - Walter Akana (web)
Walter takes a holistic approach to helping clients who are dissatisfied with their current position. He helps clients find more direction in their careers and lives and build a personal branding strategy. - David Sandusky (web)
David Sandusky helps clients develop a personal brand through the use of a web-based tool called Personal Board of Advisors, which can help focus growth in a particular direction. He also offers marketing strategies for small businesses and entrepreneurs. - Paul Copcutt (web, blog)
Paul offers both snapshot assessments of personal brands and long-term personal brand coaching - and everything in between. His specialty is professionals looking to move into six-figure jobs. - Anthony Fisher (web, blog)
In addition to providing standard personal brand development services, Anthony also helps build the materials necessary to promote a person's brand. With a design background, Anthony is capable of building webs and other key elements of a personal brand. Anthony's clients include a variety of entrepreneurs, as well as artists, evangelists, and speakers. - Riham El-Hawary (web)
Riham is the leading expert on personal branding development in the Middle East. She works primarily with professionals in the area, offering a variety of consulting services to create personal brands for her clients. - Deb Dib (web, blog)
Deb works primarily with executives and limits herself to just 24 clients per year. She walks her clients through every step of the personal branding process, along with providing other career management services. - Timothy O'Brien (web)
Timothy coaches executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs in his "Rainmaker U." program, enabling them to position themselves with personal brands far beyond those of their competitors. Graduates of Timothy's program have won numerous awards, as well as succeeded on a professional level. - Peter Montoya (web)
Peter offers personal branding services, along with other coaching and marketing services, to financial professionals. He has limited his clientele to just the financial services industry, but he has perfected personal branding techniques for that type of professional. - Karen McSteen (web)
Karen's past experience includes a stint as AOL's Senior Vice President of Brand Strategy as well as Brand Vice President at Marriott International. She has turned over 25 years of brand management experience into an opportunity for clients to learn how to manage their brands from the best. - Luke Harvey-Palmer (web, blog)
Luke goes a step beyond helping clients develop their personal brand. He helps them manage their brands with an eye to the long-term. He offers in-depth information about social media and its uses for personal branding. - Bernadette Martin (web)
Bernadette offers a variety of personal brand management services and produces the Visibility Branding Webinar Series, which explores career development and personal branding. She helps international clients routinely and can provide cross-cultural branding strategies.
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