Private one-on-one coaching
Three sessions of one hour each — adjusted if required — spent entirely on your challenges, your roadmap and your work.
cli:~$ Personal Branding Coaching · 1:1 with Phil Zongo
Supercharge Your Personal Brand and Radically Transform Your Career or Entrepreneurship Trajectory
Are you an experienced technology professional or solopreneur looking to break through barriers and become the hotly sought-after commodity in your domain?
I created this Personal Branding Coaching program to help you radically transform your personal brand and career trajectory — helping you stand out, maximise your impact, boost your earnings and create the life you have always dreamt of.
Become the obvious choice · Reach higher · Maximise your impact · Live freely
How the coaching works
Eight weeks working directly with your coach
Technical excellence alone will not make you the obvious choice. Soft skills and a strong personal brand are the non-negotiables for thriving in today’s hypercompetitive world — and both can be built deliberately.
Effectiveness requires extreme focus, so this is not a program I run at scale. We start with a complimentary call to work out whether I can genuinely help you, then spend eight weeks — two to three hours a week — on your niche, your brand and your body of work.
Three of the eight sessions are private one-on-one coaching, where we dissect your specific challenges, sharpen your roadmap, polish your thought-leadership pieces, pitch articles in peer-reviewed magazines and improve your public speaking engagements. The remaining sessions bring a small group of highly ambitious change-makers together to share perspectives, respectfully challenge each other’s assumptions and actively support each other.
The result: a personal brand that makes you the obvious choice — greater impact, stronger earnings and the freedom to choose the work you do and the people you do it with.
A small circle of change-makers
Sessions of 1.5 hours built to maximise interaction, where a deliberately small group challenges and supports each other.
Templates and actionable feedback
Easy-to-follow templates, feedback on your thought-leadership pieces and personalised guidance every step of the way.
The essentials
8 weeks Eight coaching sessions, at two to three hours a week
3 × 1:1 Private coaching sessions with Phil Zongo
US$2,670 Program fee, excluding applicable GST or VAT
30 min Complimentary consultation call before you commit
Meet your coach
The obstacle became the catalyst for radical change.
For almost a decade, I found myself stuck within the corridors of mediocrity. I was technically superior, but I lacked essential soft skills and a strong personal brand — non-negotiables for thriving in today’s hypercompetitive world. I sank in shame as the juniors I trained accelerated past my stagnant self into managerial positions.
I felt like a caged bird, and my salary increased more slowly than a snail on wet cement. This period represented a new low point, a gross disappointment, a time of deep stress and turmoil.
But that all changed ten years ago, when I got sick of cuddling up my excuses and decided to take extreme ownership of my personal brand. I cut off cynics — those consumed with self-doubt who constantly reminded me why it was impossible to thrive in Australia as a young African immigrant. Australia was my new reality, and I had the power to shape it.
Over the last ten years I have won multiple international awards, published multiple best-selling books, flown internationally on paid public speaking gigs, landed multiple executive positions and co-founded the Cyber Leadership Institute. I now own my work schedule. I choose the kind of work I want to do and who to work with, and I could not exchange the freedoms afforded by those choices for anything.
Throughout the last twenty years I have accumulated rock-solid, fireproofed lessons about career acceleration, leadership and personal branding. I am now ready to impart them to my peers.
Who this is for
I will work with you if any of this sounds familiar
So many professionals reach out to join this program. But effectiveness requires extreme focus, and I know I cannot help everyone — these are the people I can help.
Experienced technology professionals
You are a professional in the technology space with at least five years of experience behind you — employed, consulting or building your own practice.
Driven, but unsure how
You possess an intense drive to excel but do not know how to do it. I want to work with aspiring change-makers keen to dismantle excuses and radically alter their careers.
Unheard, unseen, overlooked
Your personal branding journey is moving slower than a tectonic plate. You are very good at what you do, yet you constantly feel unheard, unseen and overlooked for senior roles.
Burned out by working more hours
You feel burned out, but your only solution is to work more hours. You want a remarkable thought-leadership record that exponentially boosts your value in the market instead.
What you’ll gain
Elevate your brand, amplify your influence, become the obvious choice
This carefully structured program is designed to help highly ambitious professionals elevate their personal brands, amplify their global influence and become the obvious choice within their spaces. In just eight weeks, you gain the following.
A branding statement and an actionable roadmap
Maximise impact by carefully carving out a niche within a niche, nail your personal branding statement and develop an actionable thought-leadership roadmap.
A profile as a respected thought leader
Master efficient strategies to publish persuasive thought-leadership pieces, position yourself as a go-to expert and attract new career or entrepreneurial opportunities.
The lifestyle you actually want
Learn proven strategies to reduce burnout by working smarter, not harder, allowing you to live freely while accelerating growth.
A book publishing blueprint
Develop a strategy for writing and publishing a nonfiction book that solidifies your status as an expert in your field.
A stronger professional network
Learn how to build meaningful, high-value connections with industry leaders, clients and colleagues that open doors to new opportunities.
Improved public speaking skills
Overcome your fear of public speaking and confidently present at conferences and industry events, further boosting your credibility.
Are you ready?
Take control of your personal brand today
Take control of your personal brand today and change your life forever. Places are deliberately limited and they fill fast — claim your spot, or fill in the form below to download the program prospectus.
Program fee US$2,670 for the full program
Regular priceExcluding applicable GST or VAT
Not sure yet? Start with a complimentary 30-minute consultation call with me.
Your coaching includes
- Three private one-on-one coaching sessions with Phil Zongo
- Small-group coaching sessions with highly ambitious peers
- Feedback on your thought-leadership pieces, and help pitching articles in peer-reviewed magazines
- Coaching to strengthen your public speaking engagements
- Easy-to-follow templates and personalised guidance every step of the way
- Eight weeks, two to three hours per week
- Places limited so every participant gets focused attention
- Premium members save 25%
Still weighing it up?
Book your complimentary call→ Let’s find out whether we can work together.
Select a time for a free 30-minute Zoom consultation call with me, and we will work out whether I can help you amplify your personal brand.
Download the program prospectus
Complete the form and I will send you the full details of the Personal Branding Coaching program.
- How the eight weeks are structured, session by session
- What we work on in your private one-on-one coaching
- Fees, inclusions and how to secure your place
Our team responds within 1 business day.