The Branding of Me - a lecture on why your personal brand matters and how to develop and curate it David Ogilvy once said, “If you can’t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?”. Those words are as true today as they were when he said them in the 1950’s. Your personal brand is more important to you than nearly anything else - or, at least, it should be. In fact, it will likely help shape your professional path. So, what are you doing to develop it, cultivate it and protect it? Assistant professor and lecturer, Gary Kayye, from the University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism developed this lecture to help you with your personal brand. He’s a branding expert and has been teaching The Branding of Me, a semester-long personal branding course, at UNC-Chapel Hill since 2011. And, some of his branding clients have included Cisco, Dominos Pizza, Sony, HP, Rubbermaid, Epson and LG Electronics. In fact, his new media class at UNC helped create UNC’s own MJ School rebrand in 2015 - changing it’s name and branding to the School of Media and Journalism.