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How to Build a Personal Brand: Reinvent Your Rejection into Redirection

Valerie Mekki, Katy Mason
March 18, 2021 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Virtual Free to attend
How to Build a Personal Brand: Reinvent Your Rejection into Redirection

About this session

Join Valerie Mekki, Blogger and Content Creator, in conversation with Katy Mason @modernchi. There is always an opportunity to take a rejection and turn it into a redirection. Start before you are ready, because you will never be fully prepared for a major life changing moment.

Meet the speakers

Valerie Mekki

Valerie Mekki

Blogger & Content Creator

Valerie Mekki is a fashion retail vet of 18 years turned content creator and writer for her blog “Oh, hello work life.” You can find her on: Valerie Mekki's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-mekki-95650741/ and Instagram @OhHelloWorkLife

Katy Mason

Katy Mason

Interview & Conversation Guide, Spotlighting WoC, first-gen perspectives

Katy is best known for encouraging and inspiring virtual beyond-surface-level participatory sessions, attracting repeat attendees seeking to practice collaboration. Her active engagements in global virtual sessions has led to virtual engagement tool kits, best practices and insights - the invaluable in-depth knowledge library for leaders and coaches actively refining their craft.Her childhood in Hong Kong sparked her love and appreciation for cultures and perspectives. Along the way, her training in design and research strengthened her superpower in uncovering patterns, themes and threads in human stories. Learning from perspectives and belief systems fuels her quest to build vibrant communities with individuals and organizations craving for iterative conversational spaces and re-connection to humanity. She is a trained UX researcher experienced in building usability interviews, scenarios, and scripts. Practitioner of empathic customer motivation discovery, transforming thought process and behavior into actionable insights and roadmaps to inform product dev and stakeholders on ‘what’ to build for the next version. Conversation Facilitator ✧ Interviewer ✧ Moderator ✧ UXR Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/katy-mason/ and Instagram @modernchi

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