Personal Brand: Maximizing Your Impact!

Personal branding is how you appear to others.  It’s about making a commitment to the journey of defining yourself as a leader and how this will shape the way you will serve others.  This program will help you recognize the importance of developing your brand to enhance success.  I’ll show you how to define and cultivate your strengths to develop your awesome authentic brand and increase your relevancy.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand your vision and maintain your authentic self
• Understand your values and passion and how they help develop your brand
• Recognize how image can enhance your personal brand
• Enhance your communication skills for impact
• Build credibility and trust by living your brand

Importance of a Personal Brand

A discussion about a brand and the elements that define one’s brand.  We’ll explore how to develop your brand while maintaining your authentic self

Your Brand Approach to Others

Participants will understand ways to help define their brand style by creating a vision

Looking at the Outside

First impressions can have a big impact on a brand.  Participants learn the importance of creating that lasting impression

Looking at the Inside:  Who are You?

Your values drive your life.  They’re at the core of your being and you should refer to them when making decisions.  Participants will identify and prioritize their values

Communication Strategies

Good communication skills are important part of personal impact.  We’ll explore speaker and listener biases, active listening skills and nonverbal communication.

Building Your Credibility

Credibility can make or break a brand.  You’ll learn techniques to develop trusting relationships.

About the Presenter:  Nancy Schnoebelen Imbs

Nancy is an empowering leadership and professional development consultant.  Highly dedicated and results oriented, she has the skill and passion for helping individuals become more confident and successful in business and beyond.

Nancy combines her communications expertise with a pragmatic approach in a variety of important soft skill areas including verbal, written and nonverbal communications, emotional intelligence, etiquette and protocol, time management, business acumen, working with team dynamics and coaching.  She helps clients focus on key adjusments that result in meaningful impact and effectiveness.
Drawing on her marketing and communications background, over 20 years experience in leadership roles and a lifetime of personal growth, Nancy has keen appreciation of mindset and the power it has to change patterns of behavior.  She focuses on building one’s strengths and minimizing weaknesses through enrichment, feedback, self-discovery and detailed action plans.

Before launching Polished, Nancy served in leadership positions where she helped businesses like Edward Jones, St. Louis Economic Development Partnership and Mercy Health boost their products and services, communications, marketing, brands and stature.  She was also a reporter for the Dallas Morning News and freelance writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Nancy is a dynamic motivational speaker. She delivers keynotes on several topics such as Present with Power, Poise and Punch; If I Can Do it, You can Do it;  Kindness is Underrated; Beyond the Fork and Knife and Yes. Maybe. I Mean No.  She is a regular contributor to CBS-affiliate KMOV, Great Day St. Louis.

Nancy believes passionately in developing people, especially their interpersonal skills.  “You can achieve your goals-you just need a clear vision and a strong belief in yourself” she says.