A very high level introduction on Meredith, because I know she is going to go into a lot more detail. So, Meredith Best and I, we actually met during our MBA program. We were randomly assigned in a group of what started as six MBA, um, students and then went down to four. And in that group, we were assigned to work together for 15 months on every single class in the first year.

So for 15 months, we tackled eight classes in MBA. Um, so it was quite the challenge that we had. It's also she has an experience working in a variety of different industries. She volunteers during her time as well. She is a professor at Centennial college under the business school and she's lifelong learner and she is highly motivated.

We bonded over our love for Hello Kitty. Yeah. I had a pencil case and Meredith had an item. Um, that also had Hello Kitty, and I looked at her and I said, Do you also like Hello Kitty? And she said, So, and that is how we became friends. And we've had this friendship now for four and a half years. Yeah, exactly right.

I love that you still remember that. Um, so why I bring that up, everyone, um, it's not just to randomly celebrate the fact that both Camilla and I do love Hello Kitty, um, but I do talk about how personal connections come from a shared activity or a shared love of something and that building your network does not need to be built off of just a business perspective.

It can start in something personal and usually that's where the best sort of networking opportunities come up. So I just wanted to Start that offer our conversation today. Um, so I think Camilla, since you're on video with me, um, thumbs up, if everyone can see my screen looks good.

Awesome. Um, and then for those that maybe aren't on mute, I think, Angeline, you're not on mute right now. If you're able to mute yourself, that would be great. I just want to make sure that I'm following all my train of thought for your presentation today. So, as I mentioned, I'm shaking it up a little bit from what is the typical, I think, speaker series you would be used to in this class.

Um, I am going to be focusing a lot of this based on my own personal experience and how I've been able to build an effective professional network. But what I also consider to be a pretty solid personal brand and share those learnings with you so you can also take own takeaway, your own reflection and how you can grow not only your own personal network but professional network and start building out of what is called a personal brand.

Um, so a little bit about myself. Hi everybody. My name is Meredith. Um, you may see me around campus as Camilla mentioned. I am also a professor here at Centennial College, um, but a little bit about me both professionally and personally on the professional side. Um, over the past 12 years, I've been in the innovation space.

partnerships, marketing, economic development, um, and across a variety of different organizations. Um, I've been working at, uh, institutions such as the largest film festival in the world, largest publicly attended film festival in the world. Also known as TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival. Um, I've held senior positions at the, one of the largest chambers of commerce in North America, which is the Toronto Region Board of Trade.

Um, and I also headed up all of the innovation partnerships for Walmart Canada, which some of you may know. Um, it's also the largest retailer in the world. And most recently, I joined the province of Ontario, specifically in the Ministry of Finance. So I could develop their innovation partnerships to help us surge what is innovation activity in FinTech, InsureTech, and all of the fun things when it comes to what is financial services in the province of Ontario.

From an education standpoint, as Camilla mentioned, her and I did our Masters of Business Administration together at Wilfrid Laurier University. privilege to be educated at Northwestern University in Chicago, and I actually started my educational career in sports at Brock University in the Niagara region of Ontario.

Um, a little bit about me personally. I'm a proud Scarborough resident. So, as Camilla mentioned, what you can find me doing in my spare time and on the weekend is I'm usually around in Scarborough volunteering at community centers. My favorite one is called Scarborough storefront. We're a steering committee member about how we can actually grow.

What are economical programs for those that decide to have Scarborough be their home? Um, I also have an eight pound puppy who's right beside me. So if he does bark or if you see me letting him out of my office, um, his name is Steelers. I'm also walking him around Scarborough when it is my spare time. So that's a little bit about me both professionally and personally.

So I'm going to get into what is my main focus around how I build. such a strong professional network. Um, and also what I've learned along the way in building your personal brand. And hopefully you can take away some tidbits here that can help you in succeeding in this space. Um, so this is a picture of me in 2016 when I made the poor choice to also dye my hair blonde.

I will never do that again as a brunette. Um, this is when I was at Northwestern University in Chicago. Um, and I was part of the Kellogg education group. So again, this is where They do their masters of business administration. Um, so over the course of a few months, I was taking executive leadership programs focused on how you can do strategic development better, build your own personal brands, network like a pro and everything in between.

Um, what I really like to highlight about this picture, um, is not the fact that I had a really terrible dye job of that blonde hair, but it's the fact that actually one of the individuals in this picture, um, knew my mom. And worked for my mom back in the 80s and 90s. It's this individual right here. Him and I happened to come to that connection when we were having lunch one day and then right beside him, this individual here, Bill, when he found out that I went to Walmart.

Which was all of three years ago, so him and I have not been in contact for a little bit outside of Happy Holidays here and there on LinkedIn. He reached out to me and said, hey, if you're ever ready to take on a VP job for food and distribution in New Jersey, come and talk to me and we can have a career conversation there.

So, what this is really is meant to emphasize is you're probably connected to people and you do not realize how connected you are, the network, whether you be in Toronto. or even when you go abroad. In this case, I was in Chicago, Illinois, and I met someone that happened to work for a parent of mine at one point in time.

You will always find connections with individuals and they're probably closer degrees than you realize. So one of the really interesting things about building your professional network and ensuring that you have one that is strong and really can benefit you, but also how you can benefit your network.

Um, to get into the focus of that, um, I like starting with this example. Um, for anyone that is very familiar with American or North American history, um, you may be familiar with this, um, but this is a poem about an individual named Paul Revere, about when the British were coming to the United States back in the late 1800s.

He went out. on a horse to notify his network that the British were coming and that everyone needed to get prepared. And so he has been immortalized in the American history books as the person that was able to save the U. S. from when the British were trying to invade secretly. So why do I bring this up?

Because there's another individual who also did the same thing. His name was William Dawes. However, In the history books outside of a small little footnote, people don't really know who he is and he's not mentioned a whole lot. So in this context, if we have one individual who's going out to the network and it's being again revered for the fact that they were able to notify everybody about this looming invasion from Britain.

But we also had another individual who did this but isn't talked about a whole lot. Why is that? And it all comes down to their network. And how were they different and which one was more effective? So. What I want to emphasize here in this comparison, as I mentioned with Paul Revere, the one who has the poem about him and the fact that he went out into the night to notify everybody, and William Dawes, who did the exact same thing, but not a lot of individuals necessarily know about this person, is again that distinction and difference in their network.

And this is where your self reflection will also come into play. So this is where the difference was in their specific network. Paul Revere had one that was considered highly diverse and built on trust. And so what I use here as this diagram, an example for you, PR being his initials, Paul Revere, is he went to his four main contacts, just as an example.

So the red contact, yellow contact, green contact, blue contact. And because his network was so diverse, Those individuals were able to take the message further than what Paul would have been able to do on his own. They brought it to other people that he wouldn't have been able to connect to directly because they were not in his network.

Now if we look at this from the William Dawes side of it. William Dawes had four contacts as well. Red, yellow, green, blue. However, because these contacts were all connected to each other, there was a lack of diversity in these types of individuals. The message actually just reverberated amongst the same people and didn't actually leave that one network pool.

So what it's really demonstrating is that you should be doing your own assessment, and I had to do that back in 2016 when I was at Kellogg and learning about is my professional network truly strong? Is it truly diverse? Do you have more of a William Dawes network, where it is the same sort of people, they are all connected to each other, or do you have a Paul Revere network?

Is there some form of diversity with it? Now what I will note is that you may have a diverse network, but if you don't have solid trust with your contacts, that message may stop with them. They may not bring it out to their own network or facilitate those introductions or communications for you and we'll talk about that a little bit further.

Everly. Yes. Um, importance of trust. It's, uh, you're building like a long lasting relationship with that person, so it doesn't end like what you've explained earlier. Um, for William dos, uh, network, they stopped with the four contacts that he had, but compared to, um, vir, it, it spread out outside that network.

So it, it, the message was dispersed to a wider, um, network. Yeah, 100%. And Everly, for yourself, as an example, if you were to look at your network and you said, Yeah, you know what, I need a little bit more diversity within my network, what kind of opportunities do you think that would bring to you? How do you think that would improve?

What are your current opportunities right now? Um, that would, I think, commensurate to more, more opportunities. At the moment, it's easy to be confined with your comfort zone, like the French people. We're international students, so most of the time we, we cluster together with, you know, the same country, friends.

But, yeah, there's a value, I just realized that there's a value really of going outside your comfort zone and meeting new people from maybe different culture or different industry. Because you might never know, like, your experience, you meet someone who will introduce you to. A dream job or a better. Yeah, that mattered.

It's actually Antia, not Anita. Antia. Okay. Thank you, Antia. Appreciate that. Yeah. So in regards to like building network, um, on diversity, I feel like it gives you a wider range of opportunity that you actually won't. Um, get like having your network in a certain place because like the diversity you have like, um, different people come up with you with different proposals and different ways you could actually, um, expand into like different sectors or different branches or whatever you're actually focused on.

So that I feel like diversity is diversity is actually important because, um, if you're actually going to be stuck on the same thing, then you might not actually give you an avenue to grow. But like when you actually, um, branch out to like different cultures or different norms or values in regards to like whatever business proposals you're involved in, I feel like you could actually grow and learn more things that you could add to your, um, experience and whatever business you're actually accustomed to.

Yeah, for sure. And Antia, if you don't mind me following up on that, how do you think this applies to your day to day at Centennial? How do you think this offers value to you as a student? Well, it actually offers value to me because, like, for example, I'm an international student, you know. Yeah. I come from Nigeria and like all my life I've lived in Nigeria and I haven't had the opportunity to, you know, maybe other people but like studying here I've had the chance to like meet people from different nations and I've had the chance to like, you know, have friends from different nations.

So, um, in regards to that, I feel like in the future if, I mean, we ever have to get down to something, I know I could like... This one friend from like Mexico or company friend from Yeah, I already, because he asked me to, did I take kingdom? You know, this is like different from different cultures and different opportunities that, like I said, could add to my experience as a person and you know, whatever business I I I choose to venture into.

Strong trust at the center of it. But again, also just how this can help you from a day to day perspective as a student. Um, the first one that I observed is from my professional standpoint. And then when Camilla and I were master's students together was problem solving. When you

The other part of it is what we call breaking the echo chamber. Has anyone heard of this concept before, when you break an echo chamber? No, I mean like, there's a... Do we know what that means? Maybe I'll start with echo chamber. Do we know what an echo chamber is? No, that's okay. I can listen to it later.

No, okay. Yes, you're absolutely right. So your views are the same as the other people that are within your chamber, the same thought pattern, your same network, your same community. And exactly right, Everly. There's no challenging to it. There's no different perspective. And one of the issues with that is that if you're trying to problem solve, And you're not able to actually find a solution, and you're within an echo chamber, everyone's agreeing with you, or everyone's validating you're doing the right thing.

It's actually impeding your own success in being able to look at things differently, or consider things from a different point of view. And this really helps you to building your own professional network, and you want to be able to build your own personal career. Having a different perspective, having someone from a different industry will actually help you broaden your horizon.

And I'll talk about how Camilla and I also have this connection with each other when she joined us at Centennial as a faculty member. Um, the other part of when we think about a strong network is around the communication and information sharing. I can give you a small example with this. I'm sure all of you have done this before.

Um, but if you think of your student survey results and how you mark your professors, you don't have to put your hand up. I mean, you also don't have to admit to it, but I'm sure some of you have gone to other students, whether they be in a different year as you or a different program, and have asked around, have you had this professor before?

What are they like? Professors do the same thing, right? We talk. So as part of that, when you have a diverse network, you want to be able to collect information that can then help you make choices about what you then want to do and spend your time on, right? So again, being able to have a trusted network where you know their opinion is solid, it's one that's going to challenge your own point of view, but also is one that's going to give you good information to help make connections of those thoughts and make those decisions.

It's really going to be at the heart of what you see as a benefit associated with a diverse and very trusted network. So, we're going to do little bit of an exercise. And what I will note is that this is also a part of your reflection assignment. Um, so if you're not able to finish it during our time together now, that's completely fine.

Um, but this is to give you a little bit of a head start. So, you're actually going to do an assessment of your network. right now. Um, we're going to take about five minutes or so. And what this is called is the six degrees of separation diagnostic exercise. So the intention here is for you to walk away with an understanding of, do I need a little bit of improvement on my network and how can I do effectively?

We're going to move on just so we can continue to cover our content. So with the individuals, the up to five, but you know, again, if you had one, two, three or four, that's totally fine for each of those individuals that you had in your middle column.

You're now going to go directly to the left column. This is column a, you're going to list the name of the person that introduced you to the individual in the middle column. Okay. Now, if you did not have someone who introduced you to that individual, and for example, you just met them at an event or in my case with Camilla, we happen to be randomly assigned to each other for a group assignment, you put me.

So just take a couple of minutes to do that. So who introduced you to that individual that you put in the middle that you go to for professional advice. And for example, if the person or one of the individuals that you put in the middle was a parent or a sibling, you can also put you introduce yourself to them.

Again, similar thing if you can just give me a thumbs up when you fill that out, that would be great. Um, I have a question. Yes, go ahead. So someone introduced themselves to me at church. Okay, okay. Them instead of me. So, can you, uh, give me the, so who is the person that was in column B? What was their name?

Uh, the person's name is, uh, Mr. Bankole Itohu. Okay, and he introduced himself to you? Yes, so he came to me and my husband because he knew we were Nigerians in a mostly Jamaican church. And then he introduced himself to us. Okay, perfect. So you could still put me for that purpose in column A. Yeah, great question though.

Thanks, Cheryl. Okay, so it sounds like we've got quite a bit done already, so I'm going to move on to the last part of it. So we have our column B, the middle section, we have our column A, the left section, all filled out. We know who are the five or up to five people we go to for professional advice, and we've identified the people that have introduced us.

to those key people that we go to again for that SAGE advice. What you're now going to do is you're going to go to the far right column, so column C. You're now going to note of those people that you put in the middle, so those five contacts you go to for professional advice, who have you introduced them to?

Tatiana, thank you. Okay, perfect. So I think there is a good chunk of us, thanks, Carol, um, that have gone through this. So again, the intention of this exercise is for you to start looking at what is the type of network that I have. Do they look very similar in the sense of background, professional profile, things of that nature.

So as an example, and this is more just what it should look like for you. As I mentioned with column B, this should be an individual that you go to for professional advice. So because Camilla and I have been friends for so long, I go to her when I have questions about things, or I've even talked to her about when I wanted to have a career change.

Because Camilla and I met randomly because we were again assigned to each other for the MBA, I was the one who introduced myself to Camilla for the purpose of this exercise. But when Camilla and I were having one of our many dinner catch ups, we were talking about What we were looking to do in the future, and I had mentioned one of my really good friends, Sadaf Birji, who also was, at the time, a faculty member at Centennial, and had introduced Camilla to Sadaf.

And so now they've developed their own relationship to each other and Camilla, I don't know if you want to mention it, but I'll mention it here. Sadaf used to teach this class. And so now Camilla teaches this class because Sadaf moved on to another academic institution. So the intention here is really to see.

Who are the types of people that you go to professional advice. Do you see diversity and what is the trust that you've built with those individuals, but also what have you done for them. What type of network or professional individual have you been that you've been adding value to these key people too.

So when you look at your overview, so these up to five people. I'll ask this question here to the class. Did you list me in column A and if you did, how many times did you do that? Anyone want to share?

Twice. Twice? Two times? Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. So for, um, you know, those that listed me multiple times in your column A, you would be considered a broker for your own network. You're the one that's introducing yourself to multiple people. So one of the key reflection questions you could ask for yourself in this case is, Am I introducing myself or am I speaking out?

Similar type of networking opportunities. Am I seeking out similar type of people to connect to, or am I actually doing myself a favor and connecting with diverse individuals? So again, a little bit of a reflection question for you there, the second one. And again, uh, would love to hear if anyone has anything to contribute is, did you list one contact multiple times?

I would ask if, are they connecting you to someone similar or are they connecting you to new networks? Are they giving you more of a Paul Revere type networking opportunity Dawes? And then my last question for you is. Who had two or more contacts listed in column C? I do. Amazing. That's great. So, with column C, when you look at that, you are a broker for your contacts network.

So again, similar reflection question. Are you connecting these people with similar networks, or are you connecting these people to new networks? What kind of value are you adding to these people who are important to you that you go to for professional advice? Okay, so again, you have the opportunity to continue this as well as there's some follow up questions that I included as part of that reflection assignment for you.

But this is to give you a really solid starting point of understanding where are you with your professional network right now in the sense of diversity and the type of trust that you've built with these individuals. So I'm gonna show you a quick video on how we build effective professional networks.

Um, this was one of my professors when I was at Northwestern. Um, his name is Dr. Brian Zi. Um, he's an academic director for Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. Um, it's about a two minute Harvard Business Review video and a publication he did about how we can find and build our most successful networks.

Um, and so what I'm going to do is after I showed that video, we're going to dissect this a little bit further. Um, so with that being said, can you give me a thumbs up if you can see the black screen for the video? Looks good. Okay, and then I'm going to play it and if you can hear the sound, give me a thumbs up.

That'd be awesome. In their Harvard Business Review article, How to Build Your Network, Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap explain why the most effective place to build your professional relationships isn't in the current of day to day business, but inside the relaxed pace of a pool. They write, potent networks are not forged through casual interactions, but through activities that connect you with diverse others.

But not all shared activities are equal. Activities that evoke passionate participants, necessitate interdependence, and have something at stake are more likely to produce potent networks. Someone who cares passionately about an activity will find a way to fit it into his or her busy schedule. Reliance on others to get the job done can build trust quickly, even among diverse individuals.

Finally, having something at stake provides opportunities for celebration and commiseration, both of which generate bonds of loyalty that sustain a relationship over time. An independent activity, such as running, Won't help you nearly as much as joining a running club, and you will form the strongest ties with other runners in the club when you train with them for a race.

Participation in a shared activity allows for unscripted behaviors and natural responses to unexpected events. Because these responses are spontaneous, they're more likely to be perceived as genuine, stable attributes of character that apply not only to the current activity, but to other pursuits as well.

Including commercial Todd Redding, a client development executive for nonprofit firms meets with potential donors outside a typical business setting. Anytime he can. In one instance, Redding expressed interest in a potential

donor's passion for himself, then spent several hours coaching through a challenging slalom course. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, the men quickly began to trust each other. As they observed their reactions to unexpected events and shared the emotional rollercoaster of failing and then getting it right.

Awesome. So we're going to explore this a little bit more in just a minute. Um, so as mentioned, and to quickly recap in what was described in Dr. Utsi's publication and what they talked about there is that when you're looking to build a professional network, typically a lot of people think, well, where do I even start?

Start. And as part of that, that's where the shared activities principle comes into play when thinking about how your most authentic self How you're going to find people that have commonality, but again, maybe diverse from you in the sense of walks of life, what they do as a profession, things of that nature.

That's where the shared activities principle comes into play. So again, as an example, Camilla and I shared activity was the fact that we were doing a master's together, and we were a part of a group together. Her and I probably would not have met any other way other than through something like this. And because her and I were doing this for our own personal gain, but of course we're a part of a group that had to be committed to each other as students to be successful in the MBA, we were able to see our authentic selves as individuals as part of that.

Because it wasn't in a workplace, this is what we were choosing to do. With our own personal time. So, of course, because of that, we recognized commonality in each other, developed a relationship through that, and because we were able to see the fact that I think Camilla is super boss, she's great at time management, she knows how to negotiate with people, and also is an incredible team member, of course I want to have someone like that in my life and a part of my professional network.

Right. And so that's what I would also say is part of your own reflection assignment is what are the shared activities that you are currently doing for yourself personally, that you can use as an opportunity to build what is that professional network. Now, what I will note is the second part of this, which is the non transactional concept of it.

When we think of something that's transactional, it's very business. I give you something, you therefore have to give me something. A tip for tap, right? When we think about building a solid network and how you want to build trust, but also again, when you want to do something that is authentic, you have to think about building a relationship with someone where it's not for a reward or desired outcome.

And again, that's where the shared activities principle helps you. Camilla and I, as group members, were committed to doing well because that's how we wanted to show up for our student group, right? It wasn't because I was thinking down the road or that Camilla was thinking down the road, Mira's going to introduce me to someone at Centennial College and therefore I'm going to get a teaching job out of it.

Right? That's not how we would have had that perspective. It was because, again, we were committed in that shared activity. And because we were doing this and building this relationship out of authenticity and not for some form of gain, we were able to develop that solid trust with each other. So again, in your reflection assignment, this is asked of you is what is that type of activity that you love to do?

Where is the shared element of it? And how can you start building a network or what are you going to commit to yourself to use that as building a solid professional network there? Okay, so before I move on to personal brand, any questions about what I just talked about in the upfront? Are we feeling good?

When I have silence from my students, I assume we're feeling great. Awesome. Thank you. All right. So I'm going to move on to the second half of it, which is building your personal brand. So how many of us have heard of this concept before? Um, and if you have heard of it, what is it? What is a personal brand?

Do you think?

Oh, we taught it as well. Oh, amazing. Okay, fantastic. So since you've been taught it before, this should be a really super easy answer. So what is a personal brand folks?

Come on, we have to have one person who can give me the elevator pitch for it. Daniella, how you talk about yourself. For sure. Yep. There's definitely, you know, half of your personal brand is how you perceive yourself. And how do you want others to perceive you want others to perceive you. For sure.

Absolutely. 100%. Now, I would tweak that a little bit when we think about personal brand. is how you see yourself, but how others see you. So it's not necessarily how you want others to see you, but actually, if you were to ask for feedback from your network, how would they actually describe you? So that's something to consider when talking about or developing what is that personal brand.

So I won't get into this too much because it sounds like you also covered it. But this matches really nicely when you think about that shared activities principle and how you can also talk about yourself in the way that you can start establishing that network. So I'm sure these questions came up when you talked about it, but again, when you think of developing this, being able to talk about it effectively is what really, again, makes you special.

What makes you you, what drives you on an everyday basis? What makes you feel good about getting out of bed in the morning? But I think these two last ones are the common ones that keep people sometimes met or they forget about the value associated with it when you are doing the work in developing your personal branch.

How are you making yourself visible to others. And so again that shared activity can help you with that. But what are other things that you are doing so people remember who you are. So that you are putting yourself in a position where you're meeting multiple people at one time. But then also again, celebrating what you are doing and what you are accomplishing in an authentic way.

And so as I mentioned, when we think of this Venn diagram about personal brand, half of it is how you see yourself. So again, what makes you special? What drives you? What are you also doing to make yourself visible? But as part of the second half, I would challenge all of you on this call today, is if you were to ask your friends and professors for three things to describe who you are, what would they say?

That makes up this other circle here for you. So again, this should come from your trusted network, people that know you well, but also would give you solid feedback. And this will help you in crafting and identifying what is that personal brand that you can bring to the table in both a professional and personal space.

So just to cap us off with this, why do we think this is important? Why do we want to even develop a personal brand? What does this give us? What is the value?

What's the benefit of having a personal brand Everly? Yes. Um, I think it's, um, like making yourself visible as well as people remember you. For example, if there's an opportunity and you have that brand, your reputation, your image that you're a, for example, you're very good at doing this kind of work, then you'll be up of the consideration when they're selecting for, for example, an employee.

Yeah. Yep. 100 percent 100%. Yeah. And I'm seeing a couple of notes in the chat as well. So again, just quickly summarizing all of what you just said in Everly 100 percent also what you know, noted there is it helps us build trust, which is also tied to our professional network, right? We said this is the two fundamental pillars of a strong professional network is diversity and that trust part, it creates opportunities for you both professional and personal.

As I mentioned, I worked for Walmart Canada for a little bit with their Innovation Partnerships Division, or in the Innovation Division. That opportunity came to me through a contact. I did not randomly and dry apply to that. Someone thought of me and they sent me that opportunity. So again, there's different ways that you can look at how that personal brand can help you.

It gives you that distinction over others. I think I saw it in the chat, Daniela. Thank you about differentiating yourself. And it also obviously helps you in reaching what are those personal and professional goals we talked about before about what gets you out of bed in the morning. This is what this personal brand is going to help you with and feel that engine and how you can continue to find those opportunities that really give you joy and what you want to do.

Again, one challenge that I would offer to the class, it's not a part of your reflection assignment. And I know it's asked of most students on your first day at the beginning of the year. But having a really fun, interesting and unique, one fun fact about you. Helps you with this personal brand and do not be that student that says I have nothing that's fun about me I have nothing that's unique about me Really create something that people are going to find memorable and it's exciting so that again It can be a topic of conversation when you're revisiting Conversations with people in the future or they remember you as that person that did that one thing or has that one thing So just again, to summarize all of this up because I know we're almost at time together.

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