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From Project Manager to Project Leader: Using LinkedIn to Build Your Professional Brand

How are you presenting your project leadership brand and how are you bringing it to life? Is relying solely on your reputation enough? Are you telling your PM story that way you want to?

Your personal branding can be that next step to landing that next job, growing your networking, or opening up a world of new opportunities! In this session, we'll take a look at how you can craft your PM Brand on LinkedIn to shape the story you want to tell while boosting your visibility and your own professional growth. This means diving into your motivations, your "why", and updating your digital profile, banner, and job experience.

Key Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand what a professional brand is and why it is important.

2. Use immediate tactical steps to start building your brand on LinkedIn.

3. Learn how to engage with the LinkedIn network to grow your brand.

Benjamin Chan, PMP, PMO-CP, P.Eng, CMC, ASM

Benjamin Chan is a dynamic Speaker, Project Leadership Coach, and Workshop Facilitator who has helped hundreds of PMs enhance their project leadership skills to deliver their projects with confidence and renewed mindset to realize their project outcomes.

With over 15 years of experience in management consulting and project management, his work has taken him across various industries while also having delivered a diverse number of multi-million dollar projects including C-suite strategic planning, business process improvement, software development and implementation, legal contract management, and service creation as examples.

He shares his unique generalist PM approach on project leadership that has launched himself to be in the Top 200 PM LinkedIn Creator in the World with over 14,000 followers. He has also spoken at PMI chapters across North America where he blends his practical approach and engaging humorous style to empower project managers to deliver better in their projects and beyond.

When he's not on the speaker stage, he also mentors for the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership (CCAL) and hosts his podcast on project leadership - "The Organized Chaos Cafe"

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