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Leveraging Your Firm’s Brand to Attract Game-Changing Talent

Type: Webinar with NA CPE

Starts
10 December 2024 2:00 pm ET
Ends
10 December 2024 3:00 pm ET

2:00 – 3:00 pm ET


1 hr CPE/CPD in Communications & Marketing – Group Internet Based

Program Level: Basic 

Leveraging Your Firm’s Brand to Attract Game-Changing Talent 

This session will highlight some of the key attributes of an accounting brand. Specifically, the session will help AGN members identify some of the keys to building a strong overall brand, along with an employer brand designed to stand out in a highly competitive sector. The goal: attracting and retaining the talent they need to grow and succeed.  

Learning Objectives

  • Helping members firms understand what a brand is and how accounting firm brands tend to (and should) differ from those of other organizations
  • Identifying the keys to positioning their brands for success, including marketing-communications tactics they can use to grow their brands
  • Understanding the keys to positioning their employer brand (e.g., how they’re perceived by existing and prospective employees)
  • How to communicate the key value propositions and competitive advantage of their employer brand


Speaker Bio


Chris Atchison
Founder and Managing Director
Shockwave Strategic Communications

Chris Atchison is the Founder and Managing Director of Shockwave Strategic Communications, a brand management and marketing-communications agency that specializes in serving professional services providers such as accounting firms. With more than two decades of experience, Chris brings a unique approach to the brand strategy and marketing-communications services he delivers to clients. Prior to founding Shockwave, Chris worked as a journalist for leading publications such as The Globe and Mail and PROFIT magazine.  

 

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