Know Your Personal Brand

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In this episode of Dare to Live Fully, Helene talks with Sharon Orlopp, the Global Chief Diversity Officer for Walmart, about defining your personal brand. Throughout her career, Sharon has defined herself as passionate advocate for her associates and a champion for diversity. She now uses her expertise to mentor young women. 

Read some of the highlights here: 

On Becoming Self-Aware 
Sharon: As human beings we’re continual learners. We want to continue to grow and develop. One of the best ways to do that is to be incredibly self-aware. See yourself for who you are and how others see you, and if there is something different you want to be, how to become that.

What are you good at? I’m a huge believer in continuing to strengthen your strengths, rather than always working on areas of opportunity, which we all should work on. But maximizing your strengths, and creating those strengths into super powers helps define what your brand is.

On The Importance of Honest Feedback
Helene: What we want to do with feedback is not only hear all the great stuff about us, but what might be getting in the way of our advancing. It’s very courageous and it’s often not easy to face those things in ourselves. It’s much easier to point the finger at someone else and not get involved in our changing.

I see women having the courage to look at themselves and say, “Do I need to fix this? And if I do, how am I going to go about it?” Then on the other side, also see your strengths, and play to those and build them.

For the rest of Helene and Sharon's thought-provoking conversation, check out the full interview [here].

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