BBY Show S10 Ep16: Building YOUR personal brand of leadership
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS When you take ownership of your personal brand, you can design for more personally fulfilling work, partnerships and collaborations. Focusing on what's within your control and letting go of what's not leads to more effective solutions and a stronger sense of purpose. Developing your sense of inner self and building your authentic personal brand can be strengthened by embracing simplicity, aligning with your wider aspirations and connecting with...
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BBY Show S10 Ep15: Dare to be you with Astrid Van Wanum, Beth Topolovsky and Susan Teichman
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Authenticity is the foundation of a successful personal brand so raise your hand for opportunities that resonate with your deepest self. Every interaction and action contributes to your brand. Every contact - from social media comments to professional meetings - leaves a trace and reinforces your personal brand. Your personal brand is a reflection of your evolving self. It's not a fixed entity but a dynamic representation of who you are, your...
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BBY Show S10 Ep14: What are you listening for?
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS The foundations for creating executive presence lie in being present - giving genuine attention to what’s in front of you. Being present - free from urgency, distractions and personal agendas - and listening with a genuinely open mind, is both at the heart of building an authentic personal brand, and an expression of your impact and effectiveness as a leader. Being a leader is not about having all the answers but about creating space for...
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BBY Show S10 Ep13: What's your story?
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Research shows that authenticity attracts opportunities so owning your personal brand means you are ‘designing for’ more personally fulfilling work, partnerships and collaborations. To fully embrace who you are, learn to acknowledge compliments and positive feedback with grace and openness. Stop squirming and/or deflecting them! Building a personal brand involves ongoing discovery, listening and being intentional about integrating how others...
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BBY Show S10 Ep12: Drawing from within with Nathalie Latham
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Discovering places and practices that align with your innate spiritual or emotional connection to the natural world can be a source of solace, inspiration, belonging and divine connection. Healing from trauma is a slow, non-linear journey that requires immense patience and resilience, celebrating every small win and recognising that setbacks are a normal part of progress. Tough experiences help us shed what's not essential, encouraging us to go off...
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BBY Show S10 Ep11: Letting go of control
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Letting go of control, certainty, perfectionism, and the need for power opens the door to less stress, more effective solutions and a greater sense of community and collective purpose. Focus on controlling what you genuinely can - your own behavior and thinking - especially during challenging times and when the future feels uncertain. Nourishing yourself - taking care of your physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, and financial well-being...
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BBY Show S10 Ep10: Letting go of knowing
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Shoshin is the Japanese word for the paradox of the more we know, the less we are likely to be open to learning. Letting go of the need for specific outcomes and embracing a beginner’s mind creates the conditions for personal and professional development. Being entrepreneurial often means letting go of certainty and trusting your inner voice, persisting especially when circumstances are challenging. Viewing the unknown as a blank canvas fosters...
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BBY Show S10 Ep9: Raise your hand with Susi Knight
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Cultivate resilience by raising your hand and pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone. Leadership is about learning to delegate and trust others so that we create empowerment and collaboration rather than keeping control. Prioritising self-reliance and financial independence provides you with the freedom and flexibility to pursue your passions. As you navigate different careers and experiences, understanding that your perceived expertise will...
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BBY Show S10 Ep8: Positioning yourself for leadership
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Personal branding is a powerful tool to help you reposition both yourself and other’s perceptions of you in your leadership. Positioning yourself as an impactful leader means prioritising based on a clear understanding of your personal brand - who you are, what's important to you, and how you will show up to yourself and those around you. Establishing and maintaining clear boundaries around your time and availability for others will allow you to...
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BBY Show S10 Ep7: Where do you go to grow?
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS We are an ever-changing ecosystem - our personal and professional identities are continuously evolving, requiring us to actively create what's next for ourselves. Every interaction and external stimulus—be it visual, auditory, or kinesthetic—leaves an undeniable trace on us, shaping who we are every second of every day. Growth isn't always forward or upward; it can be sideways, or even a step backward that creates the necessary space for new...
info_outlineWelcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Remember, time is finite while the list of things you could do in that time is infinite. It's up to you to choose.
Make decisions based on how you feel, what you enjoy, and what makes you happy.
Say yes to new challenges and embrace opportunities, even if they feel outside your comfort zone.
“The only difference between someone that's written a book and hasn't written a book is that the person that's written a book has written a book” - John Sills
John’s life-changing reads:
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The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
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4,000 Weeks: Time Management for mortals by Oliver Burkeman
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Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
The Human Experience: How to make life better for your customers and create a more successful organization by John Sills
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Experience-customers-successful-organization/dp/1399401734
ABOUT OUR GUEST:
John Sills is Managing Partner at the customer-led growth consultancy, The Foundation, and author of Leadership Book of the Year 2023, The Human Experience.
25 years ago, he started his career on a market stall in Essex, and since then has worked in and with companies around the world to make things better for customers. He’s been in front-line teams delivering the experience, innovation teams designing the propositions, and global HQ teams creating the strategy.
He now works with companies across industries and around the world, and before joining The Foundation spent twelve years at HSBC, latterly as Head of Customer Innovation. His first book on the topic - The Human Experience - was published by Bloomsbury in February 2023, and his writing has been featured in The Guardian, The FT, and Management Today.
CONNECT WITH JOHN SILLS:
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.the-foundation.com/
Website: https://johnjsills.com/
LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/johnjsills
Instagram: instagram.com/cx_stories
ABOUT KYM HAMER:
Kym Hamer is an international leadership, visibility and impact coach, a personal branding expert and serial entrepreneur, and the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build visibility and reputational rigor as essential building blocks for delivering sustained business value.
In other words, accelerating results by unlocking your greatest asset - YOU!
In 2020, just one year after launching her first business, she was nominated by Thinkers360 as one of the Top 100 Women B2B Leadership influencers and is currently in the Top 25 Personal Branding and Top 12 Marketing Influencers in the world. For 4 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders on Entrepreneurship and in 2023, was recognised as one of their Top Voices for 2023 globally.
Kym is the Founder & CEO of Artemis Futures International, a Founding Board Member of the Customer Experience & Service Association Middle East, and co-founder of CXSA Group Ltd. She has been part of the faculty with Homeward Bound Projects, a global initiative reaching 1.8 billion people, equipping women and non-binary people with a STEMM background to lead conversations for a sustainable future. She voyaged to Antarctica in 2023 for 19 nights delivering the immersive component of the HB programme for more than 170 women, and is currently Faculty Lead for Homeward Bound’s 8th leadership cohort.
In between all of these things, you'll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book.
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DISCLAIMER:
The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Building Brand You™ podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved. They do not necessarily represent any other entities, agencies, organisations, or companies. Building Brand You™ is not responsible and does not verify the accuracy of any of the information in the podcast available for listening on this site. The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This podcast does not constitute legal advice or services.