February DCN: BRANDING, PERSONAL STYLE AND THE PITCH with guest Kevin Urban (of The Savvy Actor)
Understanding and implementing branding strategies can help build artistic careers or organizations. Through this disucssion, we’ll look at the basics of creating a personal brand by looking at worldwide examples and illustrating why they work and how using branding helps find your audience. Among topics discussed, Kevin will address setting goals, authenticity, finding natural strengths, and the power of perception.
When: Monday, February 24, 6:00 – 7:15pm
Where: SDC/SDCF 1501 Broadway Suite 1701
RSVP: Conversations @SDCweb.org
The discussion is free and open to all. To reserve a spot, RSVP to Conversations@SDCweb.org.
Kevin Urban is a multihyphenate (entrepreneur, actor, singer and personal branding expert). His specialty is synthesizing and packaging information. It’s this quality, merging ideas that might not seem to go together, that allows him to help shape, clarify and package his clients vision thereby empowering them to achieve their dreams. A graduate of Elizabethtown College, with a BA in Communications, focusing on PR, Marketing and Theatre, Kevin was able to merge his love of business and theory with his love of performing. Kevin credits his wide range of interests and experiences which include yoga, sci-fi, puppeteering, comedic & musical improv, graphic design, social networking, and any new technology that makes life easier (particularly all things Apple), for his inspiration to bring new innovative ideas and thinking to the artistic and entrepreneurial community. As a teacher & Lecturer, Personal Branding is Kevin’s forte, he has taught for New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, New York Film Academy, PACE University and The Savvy Actor. Internationally, Kevin has worked with students from over 25 different countries, and recently traveled to Finland to conduct workshops at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences. As an actor, Kevin has performed since the age of five, working in Theatre, TV, Film and Commercials. www.kevinurban.com