Personal Brand for Architects: Joann Lui

A personal brand for architects is not about pretending to be an influencer. It is about making it easier for the right people to understand your work, your judgement and your point of view.

Joann Lui’s Architecture Social session is useful because it brings the topic back to confidence and clarity. You do not need to shout. You do need to be findable and understandable.

Watch: Joann Lui on personal brand for architects

Joann Lui joins Architecture Social to discuss how architects and built environment professionals can show up with more confidence and clarity.

Start with what you want to be known for

Your personal brand is strongest when it is specific. A generic profile that says you are passionate about design will not do much. A profile that shows the kind of problems you solve is far more useful.

• Choose two or three themes you can speak about properly.
• Show project evidence, not only opinions.
• Make your LinkedIn headline easy to understand.
• Use images, sketches or process notes where they add context.
• Be consistent before worrying about being polished.

Make visibility useful

The best personal brand content helps someone else think, decide or learn. For architecture professionals, that might mean explaining a project constraint, sharing a career lesson or showing how a design idea developed.

Architecture Social view

Stephen’s view is that visibility compounds. The aim is not fame, it is trust. Make it easier for the right studio, client, collaborator or recruiter to understand why you are relevant.

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