Session: Authentic Influence: Using Your Story to Build Relationships & Opportunities
For some professionals, there is a perception that marketing or branding yourself seems inauthentic or fake. How can you turn this around and instead, consider viewing your personal brand as a means of telling the world who you are, what you value, and what you have to offer? How do you weave this into an interesting personal story that’s real, relevant, memorable – and hooks your listener? And as you reach out to make new connections, how do you tailor your story to your audience so you can build the foundation for strong relationships? This talk will focus on tips and strategies for how to address these and more.
Bio
Marge Ang is passionate about helping leaders build and sustain rewarding careers, or successfully pivot and adapt to a fast-changing world. With 20+ years in the corporate world, she's lived in the business trenches and witnessed the gaps in teams & leadership-leading to employee burnout, loss of productivity, and retention.
As an executive coach, her mission is to empower leaders to bring their whole, authentic selves to work and lead with clarity, confidence, and connection. She works with individuals and small teams to uncover what’s keeping them stuck or mis-aligned, so they can grow and leave a sustaining impact on their community and organizations.
Leveraging her own career pivots from engineering to marketing and across tech industries with 6 multinational companies, Marge became inspired to launch her own executive coaching firm, BlueMonk Leadership, to support women, leaders, and teams.
Marge is an ICF-Certified Executive Coach (PCC, CPCC) with an MBA from Chicago Booth and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. She is passionate about supporting the current and future pipeline of business leaders, and especially committed to supporting women and executives of color. Currently, she serves as Coaching Faculty with Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) and Executive Coach at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and The McNulty Leadership Program at the Wharton School.