Career Distinction: Creating A Great Personal Brand That Makes You Stand Out!

Hello good people.

We have a talk this Thursday as below. Kindly circulate the ad to your networks, colleagues and friends.

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As a professional or entrepreneur, your reputation is your most valuable career and business asset. Whether running your own company, or you're climbing the ladder at your current company or seeking a new job in today's fast-paced work environment, you must proactively and continuously position yourself or your business for success. Your credibility, visibility, personality, and personal style all make up your brand. Build and nurture your personal brand and you'll make yourself a must-have, can't-fail professional—and you'll do it without having to be someone you're not. How do you create a hot personal brand that makes you and/or your business stand out? What is the key to making your brand synonymous with success? What are the branding techniques to make your brand sizzle and your name unforgettable? How do you determine how others perceive you? This and much more questions will be answered in our April Monthly Talk, to be held this week on Thursday April 10th, at KICC - Tin Tin Restaurant from 6:00pm- 8:00pm. Our Guest Speaker is Eva Muraya, CEO of Brand Strategy and Design Limited. Topic: Career Distinction: Creating A Great Personal Brand That Makes You Stand Out!
Speakers Profile. Ms Muraya is the Group CEO of Brand Strategy and Design (EA)Group Limited; a regional integrated marketing communications consultancy firm that offers various services including Brand and communications strategies, Internal Brand engagement, Brand training , Advertising and Public Relations. She holds over twenty years of diverse brand strategy development skill and experience having successfully managed the regional brand building programs for companies such as FedEx, The Standard Group, Block Hotels, Xerox, Vital Voices Global Partnership amongst others. She is however best known for her entrepreneurial success in building an award winning regional branded merchandise business, Color Creations Limited, which she championed since 2002. A motivational speaker and mentor in business leadership and personal branding, she has addressed many executive forums including Fortune’s Most powerful Women’s summit, the Harvard Business School (HBS) African Business Conference and TEDEX Kigali at which she variously discussed redefining the African entrepreneur. She was recently nominated by Women Inspiration and Enterprise Africa (WIE) as one of Africa’s Top 60 Most Influential Women.
In October, 2008, she was a co-recipient of the inaugural Goldman Sachs Fortune Global Leadership Award. She was an award nominee at the Pan African Invent and Innovate Conference in Accra – Ghana in 2005, sponsored by the International Finance Corporation. Regionally, Color Creations Ltd was the only woman led top 10 finalist business out of 451 SME companies drawn from East and Central Africa in the 2007 Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Business Award held in Rwanda and presided over by President Paul Kagame. Globally, Ms Muraya’s remarkable entrepreneurship skills saw her selected in 2006 by the US State Department to represent Kenya in a premier U.S. government-sponsored program dubbed the Fortune/State Department International Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership.   Eva Muraya serves on several boards both locally and internationally. She serves on the Vital Voices African Board of Advisers on the economic and education portfolio. She also serves as the Chair of Zawadi Africa Educational Program, designed to provide scholarships for needy, academically talented young women from Africa, Chairs the Kenya Association of Women Business Owners (KAWBO), Chairs the Board of the Nairobi Women’s Hospital and is a Board of Advisor for USIU’s Chandaria School of Business.   Charges: LYP Members Ksh. 500, Non Members Ksh. 1,000. Register for the forum by paying & filling in the forum registration form attached and send it to info@ypkenya.org by Deadline - Wednesday 9th at 6:00pm. Payments can be done in our Equity Bank account. Account Name: League of Young Professionals. Account Number: 0240293600721 Branch: Equity Bank: Harambee Avenue. You may also conveniently deposit directly to the above account via MPESA using the following details; Paybill Business Number (Equity Bank) 247247. Account number 0240293600721.   FAQ ·          Find our 2014 calendar attached. ·          Sponsorship packages attached. ·          Club Membership registration fee is Ksh. 2,000, with annual renewal 1,000 for the  subsequent years. Membership is open to all professionals over the age of 20 years. There is no upper age limit. Membership Form attached. Duly filled and completed form to be forwarded to admin.nairobi@ypkenya.org upon payment of membership fees. ·          more info contact Karim 0721 691 219 info@ypkenya.org, Christine 0738 782 048 / admin.nairobi@ypkenya.org, Candy Loyanae 0713514023, Douglas  0721 284 775 ·          Our next event is as below      We are d up!   The League of Young Professionals, an organisation formed to network young professionals in Kenya so that they can interact, expand knowledge, invest and give back to the society is commemorating 5 years of existence this year. For more information on LYP, please visit www.lypkenya.org.   To celebrate this feat and its achievements, the organization has started a campaign known as FAYA, an acronym for Five Amazing Years of Action. The campaign is intended to galvanise its membership into a movement of givers who will support various causes across the country.   Invitation: Sponsorship and Participation We are pleased to invite you to sponsor and participate in this campaign and bolster our efforts of empowering communities. Through this campaign, we have targeted to directly empower at least 500 people in 5 counties, under 5 different themes.   The Opportunity: Visibility and Marketing   LYP is a strong organization with chapters in Nairobi and Mombasa with 1,000 members. Its membership cuts across entry level professionals, mid-level managers to leading executives in various corporate, government and nonprofit organizations. This is, undoubtedly, a strong target market for any corporate organization – sponsor.   In addition to that, LYP organizes 2 talks per month that are attended by about 200 professionals. There are also social and community service events that sponsor can take advantage of and position their brands. In addition, the FAYA will be a hugely visible campaign that will ‘permeate’ various media and social media platforms, ideal for sponsor’s visibility.   For more information on the various sponsorship categories and benefits, please find attached.

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