Speaker
Donna delivers dynamic, high-impact, 1-hour keynotes which inject new energy into audiences by helping them to be inspired and take practical action.
Donna talks on various subjects and is able to personalise a bespoke talk for your specific needs and audiences.
Personal and Team Branding
Branding & Marketing YOU
Build a competitive advantage from your most valuable asset – your people.
Your most powerful brand is your people. Every time a client looks at, listens to, or interacts with your employees, it impacts the way they perceive your company. There is no doubt that before a prospect or customer buys your products or services or your company, they buy your people first. If your people know how to brand and market themselves, they are essentially helping to brand and market your organization.
The Branding & Marketing YOU keynote focuses on:
- Characteristics of great brands
- Why personal branding is important to personal and business success
- How to stop being invisible and become visible and relevant
- How to build trust and credibility
- How to develop and market one’s personal brand
Power Networking
Master the art of networking to build a powerful personal brand.
The quality of people in one’s network is extremely valuable. Their reputation, profile, experience, knowledge and reach can play a critical role in building and enhancing one’s personal brand.
This is why it is vital to invest time and energy in networking – in building connections and relationships both within one’s organisation and externally.
In this power-hour session, participants will be equipped with practical skills to enhance their professional network and build visibility & credibility:
- Why it is important to network
- Determining who you need to network with and why
- Understanding how to use your personal brand to build your networks
Women Empowerment
Play to Win
It’s time to master the advantage of being able to wear both the skirt and the pants.
Over her 25 year career, Donna Rachelson has worked with a number of senior women executives and has gained insight into how they have built their careers. She also closely tracked the behaviour of men to uncover the Mars and Venus approach to business. In this inspiring one hour talk, she will share the secrets and insights on how to ‘play business like a game’, ‘take it like a man’ and ‘make your moves’.
In this talk, participants will learn how to:
- Play business like a game
- Get noticed
- Ditch the small, incremental moves
- Focus on the results
- Work one’s network and state one’s views
- Fake it until you are it!
- Don’t take it personally
Personal Branding for Women
To fast-track their careers, women need to understand their core strengths, their competitive advantage and how they can stand out.
What’s holding women back is that they don’t brand themselves as well as men do – they’re too modest, downplay their accomplishments, don’t think about their careers strategically and don’t network and build their personal marketing plans to get to where they need to be.
They need to start thinking differently – they need to build on their personal strengths and leverage their instincts as a woman.
This keynote covers:
- The importance of a personal brand
- Personal branding for business success
- Marketing one’s personal brand
- Building one’s game plan
Shift Your Mindset and Play to Win – A Conversation for Women
The time is now to stop and reflect on what one has achieved and even more importantly, to determine the critical steps they need to take to attract that next hard-earned career move.
‘Dr. D’ and Donna Rachelson will explore what it means to be a woman in the South African workplace and show participants how to become their best self through practical advice and proven best practice. They are both passionate about female empowerment and come together for this conversation because they believe that the time is now for us all to step forward and press for progress.
Through the thought-provoking conversations, participants will:
- Shift their mind set by embracing their inner strength
responding effectively to a world of overwhelming responsibility and pressure - Understand what busy women need to practically do to successfully navigate the men’s world they find themselves in.
Experience an ‘extraordinary’ journey towards personal and professional fulfillment.
Helping Women Win: What Men Need to Know
While the world of work has made some strides in the context of advancing women, unfortunately the stats still demonstrate that year after year the majority of senior executives are men.
We can’t pretend anymore that the playing field is level or for that matter that the playing field can be made even. There are significant differences between men and women and how they behave in the workplace.
Building on Donna’s best seller “Play to Win: What Women can learn from Men in Business”, an approach to help women look at themselves differently in the world of work, Donna’s latest keynote addresses what men need to be thinking about in the context of women and work so organisations can retain and benefit from talented women.
Tired of playing politics, working hard and receiving too little return for your efforts?
In this thought provoking keynote , Donna will highlight some key facts that men need to understand about women and practical ideas of how to implement change:
- Why the world of work needs women
- How women constantly work to ‘fit’ in and prove themselves
- Why women take things personally and why they cry
- Why women don’t feel comfortable to promote themselves and how this translates
- How women often don’t value themselves and why they constantly strive to be respected
- Why women feel guilty at work and at home and what holds women back from propelling their careers
Marketing Success for Growing Businesses
7 Step to Business Marketing Success
One of the biggest challenges business owners face is how to market their businesses effectively.
Most understand that marketing is important, but few understand what activities to focus on that will have maximum impact for their business. In most cases, they waste money on ad hoc activities that are not strategically driven; are ‘one’ offs and are not measured in terms of effectiveness and having a tangible ROI.
While huge misperceptions exist of what marketing is, there is huge benefit of garnering real benefit for one’s business through an effective marketing system.
In this enlightening presentation, participants will be exposed to the key steps to make marketing impactful in their business.
- What is marketing
- Marketing vs sales
- Strategy before tactics
- High impact tactics
Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs
In the fast paced world of work, personal branding has never been more important.
Marketing for entrepreneurs is difficult – they don’t have huge marketing budgets and they need to build their personal brand to increase their business exposure and enhance their credibility.
Having a strong personal brand and reputation is key for entrepreneurial success – the entrepreneur becomes a ‘go to’ brand, remains top of mind, trusted in their industry and relevant to their target market.
In this talk, participants will explore:
- What is a personal brand
- The benefits of building a personal brand
- Why one’s personal brand matters
- The key questions one needs to think about when positioning a personal brand and leveraging and marketing a personal brand for the benefit of the business
- Is their personal brand relevant to their business mission
- Packaging their personal brand for business success
- Leveraging & marketing their personal brand for the benefit of the business
- Tactics that work
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