Personal branding · LinkedIn · Leadership communication
Marietta
Gentles Crawford
Speaker · Author · Corporate trainer and consultant
Build strong teams and drive results like a human.
Marietta works with companies who want their leaders to communicate with confidence. She is known for no-fluff career advice sprinkled with humor, and for turning a room of LinkedIn skeptics into people asking for a second workshop on the spot.
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How to Build Your Personal Brand and Elevate Your Career
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- Audience
- Leaders, teams, employee resource groups, associations, entrepreneurs and experts
- Known for
- Personal branding, LinkedIn, leadership development, communication, networking
- Based in
- New York City
- Virtual
- Yes, and clients single out her energy on Zoom
- Delivers
- Talks, workshops, virtual trainings, and consulting
- Approach
- Human to human, no fluff, with humor and takeaways people implement the same week
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What topics does Marietta Gentles Crawford speak about?
Personal branding, leadership development, LinkedIn, communication, and networking. She designs and delivers workshops on building a personal brand, building credibility as a leader, using LinkedIn to grow a network, building a culture of community and collaboration, diversifying your network, and communicating with clarity and confidence.
Who is Marietta Gentles Crawford best suited to speak for?
Audiences of leaders, experts, and thought leaders, in her words. In practice that means corporate leadership development programs, employee resource groups and women's networks, associations and membership communities, and groups of entrepreneurs and independent experts. Her corporate clients have included KPMG and BNY Mellon.
Is Marietta Gentles Crawford the right choice for a LinkedIn session?
It is what her clients rave about most. One host describes her converting a room of self described LinkedIn-phobes and having the audience ask for a second workshop on the spot. Another says she demystifies the platform and makes a team that was anxious about it excited instead. If your people avoid LinkedIn, that is the specific problem she solves.
Does Marietta Gentles Crawford offer virtual presentations?
Yes, and it is a strength rather than a fallback. Clients describe her energy as electric even over Zoom, and she runs virtual trainings as a core part of her work.
What types of events does Marietta Gentles Crawford speak at?
Corporate leadership programs, team training days, employee resource group events, membership community sessions, retreats, and group coaching programs. She delivers talks, hands on workshops, virtual trainings, and longer consulting engagements.
Where is Marietta Gentles Crawford based?
She is based in New York City.
What outcomes can Marietta Gentles Crawford's audience expect?
Tangible, actionable advice people implement immediately. Her stated aim is helping leaders elevate their professional skills, build stronger relationships, and navigate conflict with ease, so they get more done in less time. The recurring theme in client feedback is that people leave with things they can do that week, not concepts.
What are Marietta Gentles Crawford's workshop titles?
How to Build Your Personal Brand and Elevate Your Career, How to Build a Halo of Celebrity and Credibility as a Leader, The Three Rs Formula for LinkedIn, Build a Culture of Community and Collaboration, How to Diversify Your Network, and Power Presence: Communicate with Clarity and Speak with Confidence.
Has Marietta Gentles Crawford written a book?
Yes. From Nine to Thrive: A Guide to Building Your Personal Brand and Elevating Your Career. There is also a free companion workbook on her site, which makes an easy takeaway for attendees.
What are Marietta Gentles Crawford's credentials?
She is certified as a Reach Social Branding Analyst, a Reach 360 Analyst, and a Certified Professional Resume Writer. She spent fifteen years inside Macy's, J.P. Morgan Chase, Pfizer, and the New York City Department of Education, and her expertise has been featured in Business Insider, Forbes, Money, The Muse, Thrive Global, and Fast Company.
How do I book Marietta Gentles Crawford?
You can reach her through the contact form on her website, or through Charli Jane Speakers at support@charlijane.com. Her profile is listed in the Charli Jane Speakers Directory.
Topics she designs for groups
Leadership, LinkedIn, and communication.
Her favorite feedback, in her own words, is when people say they took so many notes and it was still fun. These are the sessions she builds for a group.
How to Build Your Personal Brand and Elevate Your Career
The foundation session, and the subject of her book. Simple strategies to increase visibility, credibility, and value, which is what leads to more opportunities. She covers how to invest in a personal brand, how to craft a compelling and unique brand message, how recruiters actually evaluate candidates, and the mindset shift that has to come first.
The Three Rs Formula: build your network and be a brand advocate on LinkedIn
How to get noticed by the right people using three simple ideas: respond, relate, reciprocate. It is her most requested session, and the one clients describe as demystifying the platform and making it easy and fun rather than another thing to feel behind on. It also covers being a credible advocate for your company, not just yourself.
How to Build a Halo of Celebrity and Credibility as a Leader
The leadership version of the brand conversation. How a leader becomes known, trusted, and sought out inside and outside the organization, and why credibility has to be built deliberately rather than assumed to follow the title.
Power Presence: Communicate with Clarity and Speak with Confidence
Clarity and confidence as skills rather than personality traits. Part of her broader work helping leaders elevate their professional skills, build stronger relationships, and navigate conflict with ease, so they get more done in less time.
Build a Culture of Community and Collaboration
Built on what she calls a human to human approach to building a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and growth. This is the session for an organization that wants the team to function differently, not just to feel motivated for an afternoon.
How to Diversify Your Network
Practical work on widening a professional network on purpose, which is where opportunity, information, and sponsorship actually come from. It pairs naturally with the LinkedIn session for a half day.
Why Marietta
The audience asked for a second workshop before the first one ended.
Fifteen years inside Macy's, J.P. Morgan Chase, Pfizer, and the New York City Department of Education, turned into training that leaders actually use.
Marietta is a powerhouse speaker. She easily changed the minds of a group of (mostly) LinkedIn-phobes, persuading even the most skeptical that it's THE place to be. Her tangible, actionable advice got the audience hungry for more, literally asking for another workshop on the spot. Marietta's energy is electric even via Zoom.
The feedback we received from the session was remarkable! I truly enjoyed working with Marietta and look forward to partnering with her in the future for another event.
Marietta's workshop was a great fit for our professionals. Her personal branding tips and expertise in social media and technology was exactly what we were seeking for our audience. Marietta's presentation was relevant, appealing and fun.
Marietta's LinkedIn workshop was one of our favorite educational programs we did for our team all year! Not only is she warm and approachable, but she demystifies LinkedIn and makes utilizing all its parts easy and fun. We will definitely be bringing her back!
Meet Marietta
A quirky twelve year old who loved words, and still does.
"Brand with purpose and thrive with passion."
Marietta Gentles Crawford is a speaker, author, and corporate trainer and consultant for companies who want their leaders to communicate with confidence, build strong teams, and drive results like a human. She believes in a human to human approach to building a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and growth.
She has been writing since she was a quirky twelve year old who read women's magazines and played with words. She still loves words, and her writing has appeared in Business Insider, Forbes, Money, The Muse, Thrive Global, and Fast Company, among others.
Over fifteen years she built a diverse portfolio as an intrapreneur inside well known organizations, including Macy's, J.P. Morgan Chase, Pfizer, and the New York City Department of Education. That is where the advice comes from. She has been the person navigating a large organization, not just advising from outside one.
As founder of the boutique communications consulting firm MGC Ink, she helps professionals leverage their personal brand to create more opportunities for growth, build a positive online presence, and stop mediocrity. Through workshops, coaching, and consulting she helps leaders elevate their professional skills, build stronger relationships, and navigate conflict with ease, so they get more done in less time.
She wrote From Nine to Thrive to put the whole method in one place, and she is a converted city girl who lives in New York City with her husband.
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