by Valerie Gordon | Jan 4, 2022 | Advice, Front and Center, Goals
What does it mean to Take Command of your Personal Brand? Just what is a personal brand, anyway? Pop quiz time! Is your Personal Brand: A) Your skills, behaviors, and attributes B) The successes you’re known for (or, um, your associated failures or shortcomings)...
by Valerie Gordon | Feb 14, 2021 | Humor, Career
A (ambitious, talented, inspiring) woman reviewed with me the impending launch of her latest venture and her concerns about the uncertainty of owning and running her own business. As she told me about her prior (many, impressive, worthy) achievements and (clear,...
by Valerie | May 28, 2019 | Advice, Communication
Stories are among our most important relationship tools. They have the power to educate, entertain and inspire, connecting people from disparate backgrounds. Commander-in-She workshops provide the storytelling strategies to find and harness the power in your own story...
by Valerie | Apr 9, 2019 | Advice, Career
They say it’s not what you know, but who you know. I’m going to suggest it’s who you don’t know (all that well… or yet…) Everyone knows the value of an extended network yet we often stick with those in our immediate vision,...