It's all about you: personal branding for consultants
A core skill for consultants is how best to “come across” to their clients. Get it right and you’ll gain their confidence and form a strong partnership to ensure their success. Get it wrong and you’ll rapidly find your consulting career hitting the buffers.
But what is right for you? We’re all different and whilst successful consultants have many traits in common, how to develop your own personal brand that best represents your own strengths can significantly help your prospects of success.
In this CMCE Showcase, part of our series on Consulting Essentials, Kym Hamer, an authority on personal branding, shared her knowledge and experience on how to turn your strengths into a compelling personal brand and discussed how branding applies in the world of management consulting.
Attendees also got the opportunity to put her ideas into practice during the session. This was a must-attend session for anyone seeking to develop their career in consulting, either as an independent or as a member of a larger firm.
You can watch a video of the event here:
Kym Hamer
International Leadership, Visibility & Impact Coach
CEO - Artemis Futures International
With over 30 years in strategy, marketing and innovation, Kym Hamer is an international leadership and personal branding coach, and a design and facilitation practitioner working with teams and organisation across the world. She is also the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams and individuals to create reputation, presence and gravitas - to be visible with intention – and works with leaders in to inspire, align and engage thinking and behaviour to achieve results and leave a legacy.
Kym is passionate about inspiring and equipping people to create more high value opportunities by unlocking their greatest asset – themselves and has worked with a broad range of sectors including Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Construction and Engineering, Travel and Leisure, Finance and Insurance, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical as well as Higher Education, Research and Digital Media.
Between 2020 and 2023, Kym was a facilitator in the Strategy Faculty with Homeward Bound Projects - a global initiative reaching 1.8 billion people that is developing and equipping a global network of women in STEMM to lead and shape the future of our planet – and is currently the Programme Faculty Lead for the 8th cohort of more than 110 women. Kym voyaged to Antarctica in November 2023 as part of the on-board faculty facilitating the programme’s final immersive leadership phase.
Kym is one of Thinkers360’s Top 20 Global Influencers in Marketing and Personal and for 4 years running, has been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders in Entrepreneurship. In 2023, Kym was recognised as one of Thinkers360s Top Voices globally. She is the host of the chart-topping podcast Building Brand You™ currently in its 8th season.
As part of the Members Board at Copthall School (www.copthallschool.org.uk), a Member of the Advisory Board for The Time Capsule Project (www.thetimecapsuleproject.org) and a Founding Board Member of CXSA Middle East (www.cxsamiddleeast.com) Kym champions shared experience, education and generative practice as the foundations for building a sustainable future for humankind.
In between all of things, you’ll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book!
Connect with Kym:
LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/kymhamer/
BBY Podcast: https://spoti.fi/3W2Vft3
