BBY Show S10 Ep6: Adventure, hope and autonomy with Belinda Gannaway

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Leadership presence is like perfume; it's the scent you leave in a room.

Try setting waypoints instead of rigid goals - trying something, reflecting on the lessons and what you enjoyed, then determining your next step -  to foster continuous learning and celebrate your progress.

Working autonomously lets you focus on your strengths and attract opportunities that provide the most enriching partnerships and collaborations for you.

Social media has transformed companies into "glass box brands" demanding transparency, responsiveness, customer focus, and authentic storytelling, a lesson we can also apply to our own personal brand.

 

 

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Belinda Gannaway is a coach, facilitator and strategist, creating thriving workplace cultures through intentional design and activation. Working with curiosity, empathy, and experimentation, Belinda helps leaders unlock cultural insights and drive meaningful change.

 

Belinda has 20 years’ experience leading culture programmes aligning innovation with purpose and values. Her clients range from LEGO, the World Wide Fund for Nature, and Jaguar Land Rover, to UK businesses. Her work has won multiple awards for impact. Recognised as one of HR Magazine's Most Influential Thinkers in 2022, Belinda enjoys speaking to audiences around the world, demystifying culture and employee experience. Whether through coaching, speaking or writing, Belinda brings positive energy, as well as practical tools and frameworks to create understanding and inspire change. Belinda hosts a UK network of leaders who are passionate about culture. She is also co-author of the best-selling Employee Experience by Design (Kogan Page, 2nd edition, 2024).

 

 

CONNECT WITH BELINDA GANNAWAY:

Email - [e-mail]

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindagannaway/

Website - fathomxp.com

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ABOUT KYM HAMER:

Kym is an international leadership and personal branding thought leader, an executive coach, and a programme design and facilitation practitioner. She is also the creator of Building Brand You™ - a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build reputation, presence, and gravitas. Kym works with leaders - both individually and in organisational development initiatives - to inspire and engage thinking styles and behaviour that achieve results and leave legacy.

In 2020, just one year after launching her business, she was nominated by Thinkers360 as one of the Top 100 Women B2B Leadership influencers and is currently in the Top 15 Personal Branding and Top 10 Marketing Influencers in the world. For 5 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders on Entrepreneurship and in 2023, 2024 and 2025, was recognised as one of their Top Voices globally.

She has been part of Homeward Bound Projects faculty since 2020, a global initiative reaching 1.8 billion people, equipping women and non-binary people with a STEMM background to lead conversations for a sustainable future. She is currently the Program Design and Faculty Lead for the 10th on-line cohort and was part of the on-board faculty who voyaged to Antarctica in 2023 and 2025, to deliver the initiative’s immersive component.

In between all of these things, you'll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book.

 

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