Creating, strengthening or transforming our personal branding requires a deliberate and consistent approach to our daily habits and behaviours. The only way to change our personal branding is to create a different user experience...

Our personal branding goal is no different than any other goal we might set ourselves. The process of imagining precisely what we want to achieve, finding words to articulate it, writing those words down and recollecting them daily increases our chances of reaching the desired destination...

What we are known for or our reputation is at the heart of what determines our personal branding. Personal branding is strengthened as we become more socially aware and conscious about the perceptions that other people have about us...

There isn’t a person reading or listening to this blog who couldn’t better know who they are. Personal branding is strengthened as we become more self aware, comfortable in our own skin and more transparent to the outside world...

In your time I’m sure you’ve seen it all. The speaker so full of uncontrolled energy that they walk back and forth so much you feel like you are watching a game of tennis. The industry guru who presents their years of experience using death by power point and bullet points. The presenter who holds...

My family and I were holidaying in the ‘land of mouse’ the Florida version. It was two weeks of Mickey Mouse, southern fried food and American customer service the latter of which is frankly unbeatable. One afternoon we decided to take a very popular ride. The ride host had a very unfortunate way of speaking...

The Vice President of marketing for a global brand was delivering the keynote speech at a business conference I was attending. He was talking about the speed of product and market innovation and the need to change our development approach from 'plan and perfect to launch and learn'. That phrase has stuck with me ever since...

In my early years as a public speaker I remember turning up to speak at an event and as I began the introduction to my talk I asked if anyone had met me before. You can imagine my amazement when everyone raised their hands. So I asked where they had met me before and they all said 'last week’...

It was a summers afternoon on the terrace of the House of Commons, where we were gathered to hear about the work of a community charity. The occasion was helped along by good company, a cup of tea and plentiful clotted cream and jam scones. The charity was introduced and the CEO gave a thorough presentation...

Once every couple of months I take a day out from my business and head for a Monastery. One of the interesting things about Monasticism is that their communities live in silence, even community meals are taken in complete silence. I so appreciate the opportunity...