Ready for true career transformation?


You are here to do something or help others in some way. When you create a compelling brand you attract people who want the promise of your brand.” – Dave Buck.


There’s a point when your career growth is not guaranteed.

Today’s work landscape and business environment means staying ahead of the curve and being competitive at all times.

…strategically position your executive brand for success

…polish your self-promotion and career marketing messages

…be professionally attractive and appealing to the right audience


Want More Professional Impact? Then Executive Branding is the answer!

Powerful, executive branding allows your career story to be told in an authentic, personal and unique way.

With a strong executive brand, career biographies, executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles go from standard to stand out.

  • Perform well in an executive job search
  • Compete effectively for high profile, coveted roles
  • Raise your industry and professional reputation

Executive branding helps you get crystal clear on who you are, what makes you tick, and how you show up in the world.

Speak confidently about who you are, what you’ve done and how you can make a difference to employers, recruiters, board members, strategic partners and more.


Come with me into your future. Imagine a new life where you can…

  • Be immensely clear and confident about yourself and what makes you truly different.
  • Leverage an executive brand that has employers and recruiters doing the chasing.
  • Negotiate the best compensation and perks because you can easily articulate your value.
  • Operate with boldness and increase your leadership impact and executive presence 

Introducing the VIP Executive Branding Program

My clients frequently come to me at a crossroads in their career journey.

— They are high performing employees competing for a new leadership role

— They are experienced professionals and industry veterans wanting career reinvention .

— They are senior executives, emerging leaders and CEOs who became victims to internal restructuring.

— They are people just like you who want more for themselves, their lives and their careers.

More importantly, they want their next opportunity to be the best opportunity.

They are willing to

  • collaborate with a career expert
  • take a deep introspective journey
  • break free of limiting mindsets and beliefs
  • invest time and money to refine their goals and passions.

Why the VIP Executive Branding & Career Marketing Program?

Well, to be honest. When you want more, you get more.

My executive branding program is like none other in the career services industry

With 20+ years of career development experience, I have specially designed a 4-step signature system that follows the

Mindset-Branding-Messaging-Marketing model.

Through this revolutionary program, you will learn

  • how you are uniquely designed
  • address what is holding you back (mentally and emotionally)
  • build a powerful resume and career brand documents
  • share your unique brilliance and gifts with the world

WARNING: This program is more than job search, but an opportunity to stop, take inventory, gain perspective on achievements and position your strengths to move forward.

The idea here is that you go bigger, better and BOLDER in your career goals.

There is something incredibly rewarding to me when my executive clients get excited, revived and optimistic about their strengths, their career goals and their professional success. – Abby Locke

Schedule discovery session | Only 2 VIP clients accepted monthly

So How Does This Work?

I am glad you asked.

We start off with a VIP Day, (generally 10 am to 4 pm with breaks) of private, one-on-one coaching and brand assessment with me, Abby Locke.

You will step outside your normal routine to experience incredible transformation, breakthroughs, and momentum.

You will learn key steps to steadily build an authentic, distinctive brand that has incredible magnetism for employers and recruiters.

The VIP Day of strategic career and brand development coaching has intangible benefits:

Digging for Clarity & Vision

  • I work with you to go deep and truly understand who you are, learn about your passion and values, and your BOLD career goals.

Bridging the Gaps:

  • I will walk you through exercises to identify the gaps, evaluate career success themes and solidify your market value.

Re-positioning for Career Success:

  • I will show you what’s possible for your career and how to leverage your gifts, talents and strengths, and brand promise in new and innovative ways.

Planning the Right Moves:

  • I will coach you through the top strategies and tactics for launching a multifaceted self-marketing plan and executive job search campaign.

Repeatedly, my clients say “confidence in their abilities“, “optimistic outlook” and “complete career transformation” are their biggest takeaways from working with me.

Schedule discovery session | Only 2 VIP clients accepted monthly

Abby is a fantastic personal brand coach!

What defines her best from the myriad of other brand coaches is that she delivers on her promise to build power brands that helps executives advance with confidence and clarity. She is a great listener, very focused and strategic. Most important, she gives hope in the situations when you need it most. – M. Barnes, Global Communications Advisor

Honestly, working with clients on this journey, up close and personal, is what I love doing the most.

There is nothing like experiencing clients unlock their “unique brilliance” and embrace their uniqueness to drive immediate action in their professional lives.

And there’s much more! I know you cannot effectively sell yourself without stellar career marketing communications that succinctly support your brand promise and value proposition.

At the end of the day, I help you decide on the best combination of brand packaging to achieve your BOLD career goals.

Schedule discovery session | Only 2 VIP clients accepted monthly

What you get:

Mindset Challenge & Brand Identification

  • Introduction to Discover Your Branding with Archetypes® assessment for unique perspective on your innate gifts, unique brilliance and passion so you can position your promise of value in new and innovative ways.

A big plus is learning to use your brand archetype to shatter limiting self beliefs!!

 

  • Access to ABrandYou™, an executive branding program that includes (personal branding, strengths-based coaching and strategic career analysis) to identify your positions of power, leadership, impact and influence for lasting career success.

Career Analysis & Future Career Focus

  • Comprehensive one-on-one sessions to take “deep dive” look at your career path, big wins and underlying leadership themes and untapped career opportunities.
  • Value to employer evaluation exercise to identify and recognize what business solutions you solve for potential employers like revenue growth, cost savings, market expansion and more.  
  • Career planning roadmap to address each aspect of your career goal from industry type and ideal titles to right business environment and personal deal breakers.

Brand Messaging & Brand Communications

  • Executive-level writing and development from scratch of core career marketing documents that best match your career situation and networking strategies
  • Branded executive resume (black/white or creative design) with final versions Word, PDF, ATS-compliant and ASCII (text)
  • Branded LinkedIn profile, complete with summary and concisely written job descriptions and achievements
  • Branded executive career biography written in narrative form covering general career background and high impact highlights
  • Critical Leadership Initiatives, highly focused document that showcases your top 3-4 career-defining leadership initiatives and significant career success stories

 

I highly recommend Abby as a career and brand strategist.

Abby is both a creative thinker and influential collaborator with a unique writing ability to bring your competitive positioning to life. Her exclusive branding system is a powerful, impactful journey that will introduce you to yourself along the way to establishing your value proposition and setting you apart from the crowd. – L. Prout, CIO

 

Abby is gifted when it comes to helping her clients clearly and powerfully market themselves professionally.

Her process guides you to capture not the “what” of what you’ve done, but its impact/value to an organization. In the end, one walks away with not just a powerful executive resume, but a strong ability to convincingly articulate one’s professional value. -E. Lebrun, Senior Consultant

 

Schedule discovery session | Only 2 VIP clients accepted monthly

Let’s recap and look at everything you get…

  • Personalized attention, support and laser-focused branding and career coaching with a leading executive coach and branding strategist through VIP Day immersion experience
  • Welcome packet, kickstart activities, and branding assessments in advance to maximize your VIP day breakthrough results
  • VIP Day binder complete with full executive branding and strategic coaching program outline and notes from the day
  • Step-by-step exercises, handouts, checklists, scripts, templates, worksheets and more as I take you through my 4-step brand identification, positioning and career marketing strategies
  • Development and writing of master-level career marketing documents including executive resume, career biography and LinkedIn profile

 

Schedule discovery session | Only 2 VIP clients accepted monthly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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