Personal Branding: Your Growth Engine in 2026
A strong personal brand is about more than you think: it affects your relationships with your clients, your access to project partnerships, your income, and even your self-realization!
Join this practical session with personal brand strategist Liliya Ishkaeva to get clear answers, and, most importantly, to explore in real time, how to build a personal brand that will set you up for success in 2026.
In this session, you will:
- Learn how to run a self-audit of your current personal brand
- Pinpoint your key driver and motivation for building your brand
- Review whether you’re using 5 evergreen and 5 trending (2026) self-marketing tools - and where your gaps are
- Discover one simple question and three “yes” checkmarks that point you to the best platform (online or offline) to show up on
- Decide whether your business or career will benefit more from a boutique-style or a broad-audience type of personal brand
- Clarify the 5 core questions your brand must answer
You’ll leave not just inspired or motivated, but with a mini-strategy and concrete action plan to develop and strengthen your personal brand in 2026.
Guest Speaker - Liliya Ishkaeva
Liliya Ishkaeva is a seasoned personal brand strategist at the helm of I Brand Agency. She helps entrepreneurs, experts, and community leaders grow their business efficiency, visibility, and impact by developing personal brand strategies and facilitating self-marketing systems. Being an active mentor with Invest Ottawa (ON), N.E.W. Venture (ON, QC) programs, she supports aspiring startuppers and emerging business owners as they launch and grow their ventures.
Liliya is also a co-founder and chair of the board at the North American Association of Transformational Game Practitioners (NAATGP), uniting experts who apply gamification activities in their professional practice. She holds 2 Master’s degrees in Economics and Cross-Cultural Communications - and brings her 20 years of experience in project management, marketing and international relations.
Together with her husband and their 3 kids Liliya has called Ottawa home since 2016.
Location
Grounded Scratch Kitchen, Coffeehouse & Bar
1545 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON K1Z 8P9
Please follow the signs to Grounded Scratch Kitchen to the furthest parking lot and take the parking ticket to enter. Parking will be validated at the event.
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