Building and Presenting Your Personal Brand
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Fatima Elkott
Co-Founder of Conscious Community
Connectors-Founder of Conscious Community
Connectors
Planner to Leader
Fatima Elkott
Co-Founder of Conscious Community Connectors
Specializes in community engagement and facilitation with a background in transportation planning, GIS, and ecology
Co-Chair of EPG. EDI Committee: Co-Chair of Social Media & Website and Communities & Partnerships Subcommittees.
I love community gardens, working with children, and being out in nature!
Discussions and Speakers
Corinne Arriaga, AICP, CPH
Senior Transportation Planner, City of Sarasota
Over 7 years serving the community in the public sector.
Co-Chair of EDI Committee; PDO for the Sun Coast Section
Learner, Achiever, Input, Futuristic, Connectedness
Identifying your Core Values
The importance of values in developing your personal brand
Values-Based Personal Brand
What Do you Stand for?
Review
Select your Top 3
Define each quality
Words to Action
Planner to Leader
Varshini Renikunta
Multi Modal Planner
Over 7 years of Planning Knowledge/ With 2 years of Experience
As a free verse poet, I dance with words
A proud mom of 36 plants, each adding a unique touch of green to my home
Planner to Leader
Crafting your Professional Narrative
Professional Profile - Resume & LinkedIn
● Your profile is not just a list of jobs, it’s a digital professional autobiography (Make it a bestseller)
● Quantify your achievements - Show the impact your work made
● Your Vision, Voice, Values and Work!!
● Demonstrate how your experiences and achievements weave into the larger story of your career.
Resources
Research Showcase - Conferences & Research Papers
● Select conferences that align with your professional goals, attend and try to present
● Approach them as opportunity to gather new experiences and connection and not a show of boring presentations
● Publishing Research Papers and Thesis are a powerful Narrative tools
Creative Projects & Side Hustles
Jarrell Smith
Title: Public Transportation Planner
Experience: Over 8 years of experience
Ran my first half-marathon January 2024
Thinking about running my first full marathon
Planner to Leader
Networking Strategies
Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them - Will Smith
Box of Strategies
Planner to Leader
APA Florida Emerging Planners Group
Breakout Session
Elevator Pitch
Closing Remarks..
