3 Powerful Lessons on Personal Branding from Angelina Jolie

Lessons on Personal Branding | Public Personality # 9

Whether done consciously or sub-consciously, everyone does self-branding. For, instance, the first impression you give a stranger or how your friends know you are all examples of individual branding. One can learn to harness the power of a personal brand and make it work in your favour. Below are some top class lessons on personal branding from successful icons.

Angelina is her own publicist (literally), and her skillful handling of the media would intimidate the most successful PR Manager. Angelina Jolie isn’t your average household name in the entertainment industry; there is more to her than meets the eye.

1. Be Great at What You Do & Unpredictable

Angeline Jolie is the daughter of movie icon Jon Voight, which kind of makes her Hollywood royalty. This being the case, Jolie’s probability of taking after her dad was almost certain. She did and turned to out to be a tremendous on-screen persona portraying confidence in all her roles/characters. It's just as well she is her own publicist because some of her past behaviours might have given a hired one sleepless nights for weeks. She was known early in her career as the girl who slept with knives under her pillow and kept a vile of her boyfriend's blood round her neck. -> What does this part has to do with personal branding?

2. Be Authentic & Embrace Charity Work

Angelina's bold image is in part due to her honesty and courage to be herself. You wouldn't catch her emulating another celebrity or playing it safe with bland answers to interview questions. The whole idea behind life is to help one another. It doesn’t cost you a thing to do so. Angelina Jolie has become a world figure and humanitarian. The journey started with aid and welfare in Cambodia, while Jolie was on the filming set of “Tomb Raider”, to being United Nations Goodwill Ambassador

3. Be a Multi-Tasker & Shrewd

Angelina may seem fearless but that doesn't mean she underestimates the power of the media or takes public adoration for granted. Bonnie Fuller, former editor of Us Weekly described Jolie as 'scary smart', and indeed she is always one step ahead of the media and making sure that she's the one calling the shots. If a magazine offers her a deal she'll make sure to negotiate a better one that not only gets her better money, but better coverage. Jolie is an award-winning actress, a charity-worker, mother of six and is actively involved in other roles as well. Though she has assistants and managers, her ability to juggle a handful of responsibilities with ease makes her admirable.

Personal branding doesn’t get any easier than this. You can emulate Angelina Jolie and impact your community while solidifying your own personal brand.

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About the author: Irène Kilubi accompanies thought leaders, makers and pioneers in the realisation of their individual personal brand vision.

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