Developing Brand You: Crafting Your Professional Identity
Learn to equip yourself with the insights, strategies, and tools essential for building a distinctive and influential personal brand.

Course Information

Start Date: On-Demand

Format: Online

Cost: $349

Personal branding is how you present yourself to the world, and it plays a crucial role in your professional success. Mastering the art of building a strong personal brand is essential for increasing your visibility and showcasing your accomplishments. By developing a compelling personal brand, you can effectively differentiate yourself, boost your career prospects, and establish a lasting professional reputation. A well-crafted personal brand fosters confidence, both in yourself and in those around you. As a result, it enables you to pursue new opportunities, build meaningful relationships, and influence others positively.

Taught by a USC Marshall faculty expert, this on-demand, three-hour course will equip you with essential skills to curate your personal brand to project to the world both offline and online.

Performance Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will have the skills necessary to:

  1. Access and Strengthen Your Personal Brand: Identify your strengths and growth areas and focus on showcasing your uniqueness.
  2. Apply Storytelling to Your Business Presentations: Incorporate storytelling best practices into your next professional presentation, creating narratives tailored to your audience that foster authenticity, engagement, and connection.
  3. Craft Flexible, Impactful Presentations: Master the skills to create memorable presentations that emphasize you and your message, moving beyond slides to deliver powerful, engaging content.

 

For more, check out our Applied Leadership Workshops page.

Who Should Attend

This micro course is ideal for business professionals looking to enhance communication skills and amplify their influence through personal branding. Whether you’re an executive, manager, or aspiring leader, you’ll gain strategies to stand out in meetings, presentations, and interactions. Practicing professionals will benefit from the practical, performance-focused approach with actionable steps to apply immediately.

Digital Badge

Participants who successfully complete this workshop earn a USC Marshall digital credential recognizing their ability to apply the embedded skills in real world environments, and are able to showcase the credential in online resumes and LinkedIn profiles
TIME REQUIREMENTS
3 hours, self-paced.
COURSE DISCLAIMER
Every reasonable effort will be made to ensure this course runs as described on this webpage. Sales for on-demand programs are final once a course has been launched. Refunds can be obtained for 100% of the program fee prior to launching a course.
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USC Marshall Executive Education Applied Leadership Workshops are designed to equip working professionals with the essential skills and abilities necessary to lead today’s organizations.

Formatted as self-paced, performance-based modules, these workshops focus exclusively on one specific leadership skill and provide participants with the knowledge and tools necessary to apply that skill within their own organization.

Teaching Methods

Online, Self-paced: Designed for current, working professionals, this program blends USC’s heritage of academic excellence with the flexibility of online asynchronous learning. Workshops include foundational learning content and best practices via video modules, articles, & podcasts, and reinforce new skills and abilities via practice activities and direct applications.

Program Faculty

Tim Blakesly

Assistant Dean and Director, Office of Executive Education

Tim Blakesly is the Assistant Dean of the Marshall School of Business Office of Executive Education at the University of Southern California (USC). He joined USC in 2018, bringing with him over thirty years of experience in professional services, specializing in leadership development. Before joining USC, Tim served as Principal and Managing Director at BTS, where he held oversight of the global leadership practice. Throughout his career, Tim has collaborated with top-level executives from Fortune 100 companies across industries as varied as: healthcare, biotech, automotive, medical devices, finance, luxury retail, insurance, and technology. He has been instrumental in conducting global leadership programs that have positively impacted thousands of leaders and managers worldwide.