Kathleen helps people tell their story and understand the impact of their image, their brand voice, and the experience of knowing them or working with them with every action, behavior, and authentic personality quirk. She helps people know and leverage their impact and their beautiful, wonderful, awesomeness and bring their brand to life.

Kathleen is a respected expert on personal branding, an engaging keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, a speaker coach and presentation message development expert, and the founder of Know My Impact.

Kathleen is a respected expert on personal branding, an engaging keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, a speaker coach and presentation message development expert, and the founder of Know My Impact.

In 2008 she developed what is today known as the IMPACT Personal Brand Experience™. This powerful program and coaching curriculum helps individuals and organizations deliver exceptional brand experiences and achieve greater success through the power of people brands. The IMPACT Business Brand Experience™ is now available for businesses seeking a clear and focused market positioning, brand messaging, product or business naming, and bring the brand to life through positive impact.

Kathleen leverages two decades as a PR and advertising executive building corporate, product and service brands in the work she does today. She delivers engaging keynotes and workshops for organizations around the world and is sought out for coaching by corporate leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, keynote speakers, presenters, high-profile individuals, job seekers, and students entering the professional workforce.

She is proud graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications and founder of two other successful businesses, Crandall Communications, a business strategy consultancy, and Meaningful Connections (co-founded with Anne Pryor and Risë Kasmirski), specializing in personal branding, LinkedIn excellence, and career strategy.