Walter Akana is a Reach Certified Personal Branding and Online Identity Strategist and Career Coach who specializes in success! The founder of Threshold Consulting, he works primarily with mid-career clients on personal branding, career transition, and career/life planning. Walter also provides services through a major career services firm, and works on select Reach Communications projects. He can be found on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook; he also blogs at his own site, and is a contributor at the personal branding blog.  Previously, he served in professional training and development roles in commercial and investment banking. Learn more.

Kim Batson is the CIO’s Coach. She partners exclusively with Senior Technology executives to position them for career success through powerful personal branding and innovative communication strategies, resume and portfolio documents, and career and job search approaches that work in today’s marketplace.  Kim’s clients include top C-level executives from some of the world’s leading companies. Recognized for outstanding presentation, communication and relational skills, Kim is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the careers industry. Learn more.

Susan Chritton, M.Ed., a National Certified Career Counselor, welcomes the challenge of working with attorneys and professional services executives in career angst or career transition. As a Career Strategist for Pathways-Career & Life Strategies, Susan utilizes Reach Branding strategies, combined with her skill as a Master Career Counselor, a Career Management Fellow and a Coach from the Hudson Institute to bring direction, creativity and renewed enthusiasm to lawyers and professionals. Susan takes a client through the process of looking within to discover not just what they can do but who they are. Learn more.

Paul Copcutt is Canada’s leading personal brand consultant, combining a passion for people with a realization that strengths and specialization are the keys to success. Experiencing corporate downsizing during the last recession, Paul knows what it takes to stand out in a depressed job market. This resulted in his gathering successful experience in biotech, consumer goods and executive recruitment in North America and Europe. Recognized by Forbes as a leading personal brand strategist globally he is a much sought after speaker and media resource, interviewed by Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and The Globe & Mail. Learn more.

Deb Dib, the CEO Coach, is unabashedly passionate about using personal branding to help very senior executives and rising stars land faster, earn more, have fun, and change the world! One of the world’s first Certified Personal Brand Strategists and founder of www.ExecutivePowerBrand.com, she pioneers career-building techniques critical to success in volatile markets. Deb holds eight certifications, is featured in 30+ career books, and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and Fox News among others. She is co-author (with William Arruda) of the upcoming book “The Executive Branding Manifesto.”

Kirsten Dixson is considered the authority on online personal branding for career and business success — a necessity when you are Googled before you are hired. As the coauthor of Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand (Wiley), she’s well equipped to help high-achieving professionals get clear on their unique value in the marketplace and articulate their benefits with stellar written communications, LinkedIn bios, thought leadership blogs, social networking strategies and more. Learn more.

Rachel Gogos has more than 15 years of business and marketing communications experience, including a proven record of crafting successful branding strategies for her clients. What makes her unique? As an entrepreneur herself, Gogos has experienced the successes and pitfalls that come from starting your own business. She is committed to helping you maximize your strengths and brand attributes.  Her consulting goes beyond brand strategy — to tactical advice on how to grow your business.  She will help you take your business – and ultimately your life – to the next level.  Learn more.

Susan Guarneri is a Certified Career Counselor, Master Resume Writer, Master Personal Branding Strategist, and Certified Online ID Strategist. Need to change industries or careers? Want assistance with your personal branding, online identity, job search strategies, and self-marketing documents, such as your resume? Learn more.

Kristen Jacoway works with highly motivated professionals with manufacturing, sales, and/or marketing backgrounds.  She leverages career marketing services that utilize the innovative methodology of the REACH 1-2-3 Success™ personal branding program to unearth what separates them from everyone else who has the same job title. She additionally works with career and life coaches in helping them discover their unique marketing position to create a branded on-line identity with website / blog development.  Learn more.

Tara Kachaturoff is a high-energy creative business strategist who works with entrepreneurs who want to create more visibility and credibility for themselves and their businesses through implementing a variety of personal branding and marketing strategies. Working exclusively with high-performing motivated entrepreneurs, she inspires her clients to optimize their most valuable assets – their vision, values, strengths and talents. She provides information-packed, quality-oriented insight that inspires and enlightens. She is Michigan’s first Reach Certified Personal Brand Strategist and Online Identity Strategist. Tara also producers and hosts Michigan Entrepreneur, a weekly television talk show featuring entrepreneurs from startup to stellar.  Learn more.

Valerie Sokolosky specializes in leadership development through Personal Branding and Professional Presence. Her company founded in 1981 has received national recognition in the Wall Street Journal, Glamour and Washington Post, to name a few. Valerie uses her engaging style to ignite the spark of enthusiasm in clients to create a strong leadership presence and personal brand that differentiates them in the marketplace, thus creating greater success for themselves, their teams and their organizations. With over two decades of coaching Valerie’s motivating guidance has successfully identified high-potential change agents and prepared them to move their careers forward. Learn more.

Helping thousands of clients get hired faster and be rock stars at work since 1989, Wendy Terwelp, president of Opportunity Knocks™, is a recognized expert on networking, both online and off. Wendy has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fast Company, The Business Journal, Careerbuilders.com, Monster.com, and more as well as a guest expert for numerous radio shows. She has published hundreds of articles on the web and in print on career topics. Are you ready for your next big gig? Learn more.

Erin Yoshimura, of Empowerful Changes, is all about empowerment and challenges her clients with wasabi wit and compassion to find their voice and stand with vigor through emotional intelligence training, personal branding and career coaching. Because she brings diversity to every room she enters, Erin uses her personal experiences to catalyze cultural awareness. She’s a certified Personal Brand Strategist through Reach Communications
Consulting, Inc., certified Emotional Intelligence trainer, and certified life coach. We’re all born with an inner wasabi, where’s yours? Learn more.

Maria Elena Duron is skilled in making networks “work” and harnessing the power of word of mouth.  She’s a featured business coach on her affiliate CBS and ABC stations along with hosting teleseminars with Your Brand Plan and the IT Coaches. She acts as your “personal buzz agent” providing services and coaching where the focus is garnering the recognition and connections for success for busy CEOs, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders. Her company, Buzz2Bucks, provides online profile management services, social management and reputation management. Learn more.

Randi Bussin, CCMC, MBA, is a Career Reinvention “strategist” and holds the Reach Certified Personal Brand designation. The founder of Aspire!, she partners with successful individuals, helping them find more meaningful work while reigniting the passion that has dimmed professionally. She guides them to a renewed sense of direction, an actionable career reinvention, and a personal branding plan. Reinvention can be a new career, a role more aligned to their values, an entrepreneurial pursuit based upon a passion, or a retirement game plan. Randi has changed careers twice, working in high tech, higher education, and is a serial entrepreneur. Learn more.

Sue Brettell is a creative passionista specialising in re-brands for dynamic entrepreneurs and executives driven to make a positive impact in the world. Creatively versatile and an experienced Reach Strategist, Sue provides her clients with fresh distinctive identities that are equally attuned to their brands and to their target audiences. Focussing on online identity and white paper design, she is tech-savvy, innovative and intuitive, with exquisite attention to detail. Sue’s ideal clients are like-minded people – visionary, pro-eco, spiritually inclined and/or socially conscious – who appreciate the value of well-crafted design and copy to leverage their value propositions.  Learn more.