Marielle Legair
Marielle Legair is an international trainer, personal branding expert and author. She has a background as a publicity and executive visibility professional as well as experience as an entreprenuer.
Early Life and Education
Marielle was born in Nottingham, England. She attended Nottingham University Business School, graduating with a distinction (GPA 3.9) in Management. Marielle interviewed multi-Grammy Award winning musician Wynton Marsalis and his band on jazz musicians' approach to leadership, creativity and innovation for her final year thesis.
Career
Marielle Legair is the founder of Women Who Influence, a global personal branding training and mentoring company. Her stated mission is to "empower and develop women at all stages in their career through leadership presence and personal branding, training workshops and webinars." According to her LinkedIn profile, she is interested in working with allies who are "committed (not just interested) in advancing the career progression of women and black professionals."
Marielle has more than 15 years of experience working with global brands such as Ernst and Young, Microsoft, Red Bull, Santander, New York Public Library and Yale University. Marielle is largely engaged to deliver transformative keynotes and workshops for these brands. Marielle has a self-proclaimed passion for helping women achieve personal and professional success.
Prior to founding her company, Marielle gained over a decade of international experience building executive visibility campaigns for CEOs and senior leaders at some of the world’s largest companies in London and New York including Deloitte, Grant Thornton and Experian.
While working at Deloitte Global (headquartered in New York), Marielle provided executive visibility counsel to the CEO and senior leadership for strategic partnerships such as the World Economic Forum program. This generated 20 media interviews leading to relationships and coverage in top-tier international press including: Forbes, Reuters, Fortune, Quartz and Bloomberg. She also led the creation and roll-out of global research campaigns such as the annual Millennial Survey and Corporate Governance Women on Boards report.
Her work has captured global audiences' attention through top tier media channels including BBC, Financial Times, Forbes, PR Week, Black to Business and Black Enterprise. In Marielle's work as a publicist, she worked with Louise Broni-Mensah, CEO and Founder of Shoobs.com to secure two high profile BBC interviews.
Marielle lives and works between New York and London.
Books
Marielle published her popular book, The Personal Brand Bible for Ambitious Women: Featuring Success Secrets from Six-Figure Trailblazers, in 2017. It features interviews from trailblazing women including millennial money expert and star of Netflix documentary She Did That, Tonya Rapley; Boss Babe co-founder and CEO, Natalie Ellis (who has grown the company's Instagram account to 2.8m followers, generating multiple seven figures of revenue); positive psychologist, Hay House author and multimillion dollar coach, Niyc Pidgeon and finance lawyer and Oxford University Graduate, Nana Darko.
Early Life and Education
Marielle was born in Nottingham, England. She attended Nottingham University Business School, graduating with a distinction (GPA 3.9) in Management. Marielle interviewed multi-Grammy Award winning musician Wynton Marsalis and his band on jazz musicians' approach to leadership, creativity and innovation for her final year thesis.
Career
Marielle Legair is the founder of Women Who Influence, a global personal branding training and mentoring company. Her stated mission is to "empower and develop women at all stages in their career through leadership presence and personal branding, training workshops and webinars." According to her LinkedIn profile, she is interested in working with allies who are "committed (not just interested) in advancing the career progression of women and black professionals."
Marielle has more than 15 years of experience working with global brands such as Ernst and Young, Microsoft, Red Bull, Santander, New York Public Library and Yale University. Marielle is largely engaged to deliver transformative keynotes and workshops for these brands. Marielle has a self-proclaimed passion for helping women achieve personal and professional success.
Prior to founding her company, Marielle gained over a decade of international experience building executive visibility campaigns for CEOs and senior leaders at some of the world’s largest companies in London and New York including Deloitte, Grant Thornton and Experian.
While working at Deloitte Global (headquartered in New York), Marielle provided executive visibility counsel to the CEO and senior leadership for strategic partnerships such as the World Economic Forum program. This generated 20 media interviews leading to relationships and coverage in top-tier international press including: Forbes, Reuters, Fortune, Quartz and Bloomberg. She also led the creation and roll-out of global research campaigns such as the annual Millennial Survey and Corporate Governance Women on Boards report.
Her work has captured global audiences' attention through top tier media channels including BBC, Financial Times, Forbes, PR Week, Black to Business and Black Enterprise. In Marielle's work as a publicist, she worked with Louise Broni-Mensah, CEO and Founder of Shoobs.com to secure two high profile BBC interviews.
Marielle lives and works between New York and London.
Books
Marielle published her popular book, The Personal Brand Bible for Ambitious Women: Featuring Success Secrets from Six-Figure Trailblazers, in 2017. It features interviews from trailblazing women including millennial money expert and star of Netflix documentary She Did That, Tonya Rapley; Boss Babe co-founder and CEO, Natalie Ellis (who has grown the company's Instagram account to 2.8m followers, generating multiple seven figures of revenue); positive psychologist, Hay House author and multimillion dollar coach, Niyc Pidgeon and finance lawyer and Oxford University Graduate, Nana Darko.
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