Catharine Gately is a seasoned expert in personal branding and storytelling, dedicated to transforming leaders into legends. As a Personal Brand Strategist at Brand Builders Group, the world’s leading personal branding firm and Inc. 5000 company, Catharine leverages her 25 years of communication expertise to elevate her clients towards unparalleled success.
She has worked with leaders at numerous Fortune 500 giants, including Microsoft (+Xbox), Amazon, Meta, Cisco, Amgen, Adobe, Expedia, Starbucks, and Netflix. She excels in crafting strategic brand narratives and compelling communication strategies for top-tier executives—guiding them to drive business objectives, inspire action, and ignite change.
Catharine’s dynamic career started in journalism at CBS News and has included roles as a storytelling entrepreneur, a Microsoft marketing communications director, a VP at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in Chicago, and a press secretary on Capitol Hill. She has supported numerous worldwide Microsoft executives and teams as a C-level communications consultant and go-to corporate workshop leader on Storytelling for influence. A speechwriter and media relations expert, Catharine has spent nearly two decades landing her clients on everything from TEDx stages from Seattle to New York to Greece (25+ TEDx speakers), coaching clients for conferences like Grace Hopper and the Game Developers Conference, and fostering once-in-a-lifetime client opportunities with global media, such as Forbes, CNBC, and SUCCESS.
Catharine has a passion to empower leaders to unlock their full potential to make an unforgettable mark in their industries through the power of owning their authentic story.
We have studied, researched, analyzed and personally tested a series of actionable steps that successful personal brands follow to make their mission become a reality.
Our personal brand strategy systems and methodology are specifically designed to help people just like you uncover what problem they solve, get clear on their message and build and monetize their personal brand.
Brand Builders Group works with those just getting started with an idea and a big dream to well-known personalities and established personal brands. Because of the large variety in our community and the unique perspective from both sides we have realized there is both a consistent set of struggles and a consistent set of best practices that personal bands can follow to break through and rise above the noise.
On our call we will help you get started with a plan to start realizing your goals and dreams while removing some obstacles that stand in the way. We will also help you determine the best next steps for you to take based on your short term and long term goals. If you are ready to start building, growing and monetizing your personal brand then click below and start the process of requesting your free personal brand strategy call.
We believe that every person has a story and a message and that it matters to be shared because there are certain people who will only be able to hear that message from you. We know what it feels like to have that calling and we’ve spent our careers learning how to listen it and follow it and make a wonderful income and lifestyle doing it. We’ve dedicated our lives to helping other “mission-driven messengers” to experience the same success, prosperity and impact that we have.
Our methodologies, frameworks, and teachings are based on our personal track record of releasing New York Times bestselling books, giving viral TED talks, building 8-figure businesses, amassing millions of online followers, hosting top-ranked podcasts, and creating Hall of Fame Keynote Speakers. Our insights have been featured by Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, Inc, SUCCESS, CNN, and Entrepreneur Magazine. We are uniquely positioned to support personal brands with both world-class strategy and execution ready monetization plans.