Professional Visibility with Anne-Laure Le Cunff

I'm excited to share this series on Professional Visibility with you. I want to help you overcome cultural, social and gender-related barriers to being visible. Talking about yourself and your work is a skill and I want to shine a light on the multitude of ways women do this. I hope I can provide you with role models you can mimic and learn from. Over time, I hope that you will find a way of being visible that feels true and powerful to you. This work is one way I'm learning how to do that for myself.

Next up, is the excellent Anne Laure Le Cunff who I met through the amazing productivity work she does at Ness Labs.

Why are you intentionally visible? 

The motto 'If you build it, they will come' doesn't work. Especially as women, we should stop hiding behind our work. Being intentionally visible means shining a light on our work so people can discover it. It's a way to increase the impact of your work.

HOW are you visible? 

I'm a big proponent of learning in public. I tweet about my progress, my questions, my mistakes. I blog regularly and I have a newsletter. I always say yes to relevant podcast opportunities. When being visible is weaved into the fabric of your work, it doesn't feel like additional work.

What is your one piece of advice to people reading this who want to be more visible? 

Start now. You don't need to start big. Creating an account on Instagram or Twitter and posting about your progress. Sending a short email update to people in your network. Offering to help with a local meetup. Being visible has a compound effect: the earlier you start, the better.

Who is your visibility role model? 

Emma Bostian is an amazing advocate for sharing your work in public. She has grown an engaged audience on Twitter by being authentic, sharing the good and the bad, and teaching people as she learns.

You can read other interviews with Sas Petherick, Daisy Onubogu and Seyi Akiwowo

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