All The World’s A Stage: A Personal Branding Story

A CONCISE, CRUCIAL GUIDE TO THE WHAT, WHY AND HOW OF PERSONAL BRAND BUILDING

A brand is an identity-and it is certainly not restricted to products. Allow Ambi, Shankar, Rita, Kunal and Joe, who are back in college for their silver reunion, to bring alive for you the notion of people as brands. As they walk through the campus, rediscovering old haunts, the friends enter into an animated discussion. Their conversation offers keen insights into how each individual has a unique brand, which must be as thoughtfully cultivated as product brands are.

Personal brands can be both a factor and a marker of success. As businesses compete, the personal branding of a company’s leadership can influence how well it performs. Similarly, how a new hire brands herself could alter the opportunities that open up for her, and so also her career path. In short, individuals-and how others perceive them-matter.

Defining a personal brand, crafting a presence, developing a unique voice, building a network, using social media creatively and more: in All the World’s a Stage, Ambi Parameswaran offers a concrete roadmap towards brand building that will give you an unmatched strategic advantage. This book is a concise, crucial guide to our frenetic times.

About the Author

Ambi Parameswaran is a brand coach and founder, brand-building.com, a brand advisory. He is a featured speaker at corporate events, a guest faculty at leading business schools and an award-winning bestselling author of eleven books. His specially curated workshop on Personal Branding has been very popular with both leading corporates and industry bodies. Ambi has spent his forty-year career in corporate India working across diverse sectors, such as pharmaceuticals/consumer products (Boots Company), media (UDI Yellow Pages) and advertising (Rediffusion). He spent over twenty-five years with FCB Ulka Advertising, helping transform a struggling ad agency into one of the top five marketing communications groups. Over the last six years, turning independent, he has served as a member director on corporate and advisory boards, as a brand coach to small and large brands and as a mentor to exciting new businesses. He has, through his career and beyond, worked on iconic brands like Tata, Wipro, Zee, TCS, Amul, Tropicana, Pepsico, LIC, Santoor, Sundrop, Abbott, J&J, ITC and so on.

Ambi now reads, writes, teaches and coaches leaders across multiple domains. He is a guest faculty at IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad, MICA and an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at SPJIMR Mumbai.

Ambi’s columns appear regularly in Business Standard and in several other business publications, including Economic Times and The Hindu Business Line. He is a Distinguished Alumnus award recipient from both IIT Madras and IIM Calcutta, an AMP Graduate from Harvard Business School, a PhD in Management from Mumbai University and a CFI-certified CEO coach.

Ambi can be reached at ambimgp@brand-building.com. He is active on LinkedIn as Ambi Parameswaran and on Twitter as @ambimgp.