How to Build Your Leadership Brand
Join us to hear candid advice and tips on how to progress in your career from experienced leaders.
Agenda:
Panel Discussion and Q+A: 9-9:45am PT
Networking: 9:45-10:15am PT
How to Build Your Leadership Brand & Presence
Effective leaders lead and inspire, live by strong core values, and communicate effectively. The way you show up as a leader and operate are key to defining your personal brand and building your presence - key skills to career advancement. Join our panelist as they discuss:
What do they consider to be key in developing one’s personal brand? What tactics have they used?
How did developing a personal brand help them move up in their career?
Did they face any challenges in developing and implementing their leadership brand and style, especially if it was different from the current style of leadership?
How do they ensure authenticity in their leadership brand?
How do they prepare and build their confidence when leading a meeting/presentation?
Inspired by Center for Creative Leadership + HBR article, Defining Your Leadership Brand
More about the speakers:
Kelly Aronson | Chief Information Officer, SVP | Andersen Corporation
Kelly is responsible for enterprise information technology strategy and implementation and providing strategic partner support to each of Andersen’s divisions and functions. Previously, she was vice president of information technology (IT), responsible for Andersen enterprise customer experience technology (marketing, sales, quote & order, service, and portal). Prior to Andersen, Kelly held a variety of IT leadership positions at Target, Thomson Reuters and Accenture. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Olaf College. She is a board member for the Minnesota chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Julie Peng | Director of Production | ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm
Julie is the Director of Production at ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm’s award-winning content innovation division, where she leads talent and capacity strategy and oversees production management for ILMxLAB’s global studios. Her career spans over twenty years of experience in CGI production management in film, television and immersive projects, and her passions for storytelling and innovation have drawn her to production leadership roles in future-focused organizations like ILMxLAB and Nickelodeon Digital Lab, and first-of-kind projects such as Nickelodeon Movies/Paramount PIctures’ first CG animated feature film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and Lucasfilm Animation inaugural production, Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Wendy Batchelder | SVP of Global Data Governance & Chief Data Officer of Trust | Salesforce
Wendy Batchelder serves as the Senior Vice President of Global Data Governance and the Chief Data Officer of Trust at Salesforce. Wendy is passionate about building inclusive spaces, continuous learning, and working to amplify others. In 2019, she was appointed to the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, where she also co-chairs the Career Awareness subcommittee. In 2021, Batchelder received recognition for her contributions in Data Management and was awarded Chief Data Officer of the Year by Informatica. Prior to joining Salesforce, Batchelder served as Chief Data Officer at VMware, held various leadership positions in data at Wells Fargo, and spent 10 years in IT Audit at EY, KPMG, and Aviva USA.
Anjali Jameson | Senior Vice President of Product | One Medical
Anjali is currently SVP of Product at One Medical where she is focused on building the best care-centric healthcare technology in the industry. Previous to One Medical, Anjali led the Navigation product teams at Optum, with a suite of products that served over 50 million members. In that role, Anjali and her team built consumer-first experiences across care, wellness, and benefits technology, effectively delivering a simpler, more compassionate experience within a very complex healthcare system. She believes strongly in the idea that healthcare should be compassionate, affordable, and equitable.
Marlette Jackson | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Advisor | ModelExpand
Marlette Jackson, PhD, is a leader and innovator in the recruitment and advancement of racial and ethnic minorities, women, and first-generation college students. Marlette’s work empowers institutions to redefine and reimagine efforts that strengthen diversity, foster inclusion, & promote equity. Combining empirical research with a human-centered framework, Marlette collaborates with organizations to recruit, retain, and advance talent from diverse backgrounds.
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ModelExpand is a diversity and inclusion strategy firm that works with employers to build a more inclusive hiring process and ultimately hire and retain talent from underrepresented backgrounds.
This event is open to all women, including trans women and those who are non-binary or gender non-conforming. We also welcome allies who are committed to creating supportive and inclusive environments for those who are typically underrepresented in the workplace.
