Event: Supercharge your personal brand!

The next in our series of events to Encourage, Empower and Engage under 35’s in business is an event dedicated to personal brand. What does personal brand mean and how does it benefit you and those around you? In a world where attention spans are shortened and there are so many different ways to promote ourselves, it can be difficult to stand out and make an impact. By developing your own personal brand you can manage how others see you and the work that you do. This event from Co.next will bring together four great speakers with personal experiences and expertise in personal branding and you will come away with some practical tips to help you identify and grow your own personal brand. We will be covering eight key points:

1. Be genuine and authentic (Be you!)
2. Have focus
3. Tell a story and let other people tell your story
4. Be consistent
5. It’s ok not to know something or fail –
6. Positive attitude and help others
7. Follow successful others for inspiration
8. Being more commercial

  About Matt Skipper  Matt has nearly twenty years’ experience in marketing and business development. As Head of New Business at Mills & Reeve, a top 40 UK law firm, he is responsible supporting national strategic growth projects, developing networks and new business opportunities, location and sector based profile activity and supporting lawyers by coaching business development and sales skills. Matt is passionate about supporting the development of younger professionals and students so presents on personal branding and networking skills both internally and to a range of organisations, NextGen and business networks. About Grace Appleby  Grace Appleby is Head of Client Services at Yawn Marketing – a full-service agency and consultancy in Norwich, as well as Founder of Norfolk Women’s Marketing Network – a community for likeminded marketeers to connect, learn, and share with each other. Having graduated with a French degree from UEA in 2020, Grace is still relatively new to her career and enjoys sharing the honest ups and downs of agency life and entrepreneurship. About Rosanna Rosanna founded her company in a bid to challenge traditional recruitment. No one needs recruiting practices which are old fashioned, slow and often unclear. Thus RecruitmentJunky was born! RecruitmentJunky partners with growing tech companies and headhunts to find talented job seekers. The mission is to connect people to exciting opportunities that will allow them to fulfill their part in changing the world through technology. A CEO and mother, Rosanna is now growing her personal brand on LinkedIn, challenging other businesses to “do better”. Rosanna promotes learning about working parents’ struggles, encourages diverse recruiting practices, and shares insights into her life as a working mum and CEO. She is now on a mission to champion a better world of work for women, and will be launching a new area of the business later in 2022.   About Stokely At 18 years of age, Stokely started his career in the television industry working as a runner at ITV. He worked his way up the ladder in 3 years to fulfil his childhood dream of becoming a television producer. From that point Stokely discovered that he enjoyed working for himself so he bought a camera & started filming videos in exchange for beer in Manchester nightclubs whilst concurrently producing commercials for large corporate brands such as Virgin Media & Pizza Express during the day. 1 year later Stokely wanted to pursue his dream of starting his own creative agency. So he packed up his bags & moved to his hometown of Norwich. At this time, Adam, his childhood friend, was 1 year out of university and was also working himself to help brands & businesses market themselves. They discovered that together they both had the creative & marketing skills to help businesses even more than they were doing already, Trendy Grandad was born! Stokely now heads up creative, sales and marketing at Trendy Grandad whilst pursuing his passion for helping young businesses owners, young inspiring entrepreneurs & young creatives across the UK. In addition he also founded Gen-E, a networking event that aims to connect young entrepreneurs & professionals in Norfolk. Lastly, Stokely also spends his time public speaking teaching businesses about video marketing & content creation.