Owning Your Narrative: Building a Personal Brand Around Your Voice
To illustrate how creators can discover and cultivate their creative voice and passions in the current oversaturated creator economy.
The Beauty of Success: Innovation, Empowerment and the Power of the Pivot
Join Kendra Bracken-Ferguson, author & 3x founder, and Sapna Shah Parikh, CDO at Kendo Brands, as they discuss navigating a career centered on innovation, empowerment and the power of the pivot through excerpts from Kendra's new book, The Beauty of Success: Start, Grow and Accelerate Your Brand.
In My Own Lane: Honing & Owning Your Voice”
“The path to success is believing in your value, your importance, and your worth, meaning you need to stand in your power.” Kendra Bracken-Ferguson will take a deep dive into defining, claiming and owning your power. Pulling from her new book, The Beauty of Success: Start, Grow and Accelerate Your Brand, she’ll provide a blueprint to unlock your own innate powers, the importance of self-actualization, and how to lean into the right opportunities to build a community that supports your greatness. Standing in Your Power will be one of the most important things you can do as an entrepreneur and leader
Succeeding with Social Commerce and Creators
Nearly 5 billion people—more than half of the world’s population—use social media, with commerce on these platforms expected to reach $1.2 trillion by 2025. With the creator economy alone expected to reach $75 billion in 2024, the opportunity for retailers and brands to engage customers through creator-led content is massive, though also fraught with challenges and risk. In this session, three retail and brand leaders will share how they’ve amassed digital audiences and won over business on social media platforms, both directly and via creator partnerships. They'll also share which platforms have been most impactful for generating social commerce sales.
COMMUNITY & COUNSEL: Building Your Brain Trust
“Happiness is amplified and heightened when we have a community, or brain trust, of people we trust to go through the good times and the bad times in business.” Kendra Bracken-Ferguson will take a deep dive into how creating your own unique brain trust will help support and champion you to recognize your gifts and your value and ultimately remind us of the beauty of our success. Pulling from her new book, The Beauty of Success: Start, Grow and Accelerate Your Brand, she’ll provide real world examples that detail how building your own brain trust will be one of the most important things you can do as an entrepreneur and leader.
How self-made billionaire Kendra Scott emphasizes philanthropy
Self-made billionaire KENDRA SCOTT is an active philanthropist with a history of supporting women and children’s causes. Whether in business or philanthropy, she has always sought out transformative solutions for her community’s problems on a local and national level. Scott’s “fashion-for-philanthropy” model transforms communities, from her Kendra Cares events to her Make-A-Wish partnership to the Barbie x Kendra Scott limited-edition capsule collection benefiting Girls Inc.
Kendra Bracken-Ferguson is an internationally acclaimed thought leader. In demand for her strategic vision and attention to brands that want to grow to scale quickly and sustainably, she is a sought after speaker and c- suite/board advising powerhouse.
Kendra's ecosystem of leadership is rooted in her global conglomerate BrainTrust where she is the Founder, CEO and General Partner.
BrainTrust is an award-winning, global force created by Kendra in 2015. It was the first of her suite of BrainTrust enterprises leading to her founding BrainTrust Founders Studio in 2021, now the largest membership-based platform designed for diverse founders of beauty and wellness companies that has not only changed the face of beauty but also empowered overlooked business owners to enter the room and sit at the tables of capital and wealth generation.
She also is a General Partner in the adjacent BrainTrust Fund I, dedicated to investing in breakthrough beauty and wellness brands. A transformative brand builder, Kendra is the secret ingredient in guiding and monetizing more than 200 influencer-driven brands that have collectively generated more than $100MM in revenue. Kendra has created and launched seven brands in partnership with celebrities and influencers. Among her firsts, Kendra has the distinction of one of the first 100 Black women ever to have raised more than $1MM in investment for her first company.
Not only has she innovated and partnered into the worlds of celebrity and influence, she has also been early to the power of technology to open new gates of opportunity as the youngest Vice President at Fleisham-Hillard New York, the first Director of Digital Media at Ralph Lauren and the first Chief Digital Officer at CAA-GBG (Creative Artists Agency - Global Brand Groups) when her company was acquired.
She also developed Influencer Data Mapping™, a proprietary advertising marketing solution to drive ROI (return on influence).
Kendra hosts Business of the Beat podcast that sheds light on the business of beauty through the eyes of BIPOC founders, senior executives, influencers, and operators who are in the process of starting, growing, and scaling their businesses. With a focus on empowering and inspiring diverse leaders in the beauty and wellness industry, this podcast features over 170 episodes, and season four is now underway. Each episode uncovers key takeaways and behind-the-scenes stories of entrepreneurs, highlighting the beauty of their success.
Kendra’s first book, The Beauty of Success: Start, Grow and Accelerate Your Brand was released on February 13, 2024 and was named the #1 New Release in Business Entrepreneurship on Amazon.
As much as she does, she also gives. A noted philanthropist, mentor and advisor, Kendra has received numerous awards and has an endowment at her alma mater, Purdue University for a female student of need in the School of Liberal Arts.
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