
Own Your Image: Building and Elevating Your Personal Brand
Session Summary: Your personal brand is more than your job title or resume. It’s the sum of how you communicate, lead meetings, write emails, contribute in high-stakes conversations, show up online—and how others feel when you walk into a room. In high-performance environments, perception shapes opportunity. According to LinkedIn, 82% of hiring managers say a strong personal brand directly influences who they promote. But most professionals spend their careers hoping their work will speak for itself—while their visibility, influence, and upward mobility stagnate.
This high-impact session gives participants a real-time audit of their current brand, helps them clarify the image they want to project, and guides them to create a bold, next-level Power Statement. They'll leave with tools they can use immediately to show up with purpose—in meetings, performance reviews, LinkedIn updates, and anywhere leadership is watching. Because if you don’t define your brand, someone else will.
Learning Objectives
Understand how perception drives opportunity, visibility, and influence
Identify key behaviors that shape your brand—both positively and negatively
Recognize and shift outdated patterns that limit your professional identity
Create a Power Statement that reflects your value and next-level leadership
Leave with a strategic checklist and prompt bank to reinforce your brand in action
Gretchen Hydo
Gretchen Hydo is a Master Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Team Coach through Brown University. She specializes in helping executives and teams enhance collaboration, communication, and leadership effectiveness. By identifying team dynamics and optimizing strengths, she helps organizations create high-functioning, results-driven teams.
With over 20 years of experience, Gretchen has worked with Fortune 500 companies and high-growth organizations to drive transformation and sustainable success. Before becoming a coach, she founded a successful PR firm, Chatterbox PR Ink, honing her expertise in business strategy and leadership.
Gretchen is the author of Break Free from Your Dirty Little Secrets: A New You in 10 Secret-Breaking Stages and Tell Your Secret. She helps women break free from the secrets that hold them back. Featured in the Chicago Tribune and Fast Company, she is also a sought-after speaker, executive coach, and mentor to coaches through Stairway to Six.