Ideas that help you understand yourself, build your story and grow your personal brand.
The Brand You Build is the home of Identity Intelligence. Every article explores identity, story, personal branding and professional growth through practical ideas, original research and real-world experience.
Whether you're discovering your professional identity, strengthening your reputation or learning how to communicate your story with greater clarity, start wherever your curiosity takes you.
One of the most dangerous things you can build today is a personal brand without a compass.
From the outside, it may look successful.
You gain visibility.
You grow an audience.
You create opportun...
Most people don’t fail because they lack talent.
They don’t fail because they lack potential.
And they rarely fail because they don’t know what they want.
More often, they fail because they keep po...
One of the biggest challenges in personal branding is figuring out where to focus.
Should you build around your skills?
Your passions?
Your experience?
Your values?
The answer is all of them.
Bu...
Most people can tell you what they’re bad at.
They can list their weaknesses.
Their mistakes.
Their insecurities.
Their self-doubt.
What they often struggle to identify is something far more impo...
Most people think their career is defined by their résumé.
Their qualifications.
Their job titles.
Their experience.
Their achievements.
And while those things matter, they rarely explain what ma...
Most people spend years building a career.
Far fewer spend time building the person behind it.
That’s why I created The Brand You Build.
A 52-week journey designed to help you build the only brand ...
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