Coaching World Issue 15: August 2015 | Page 8

Shutterstock.com/GaudiLab Business Sense 6 Strategies for Managing Your Online Reputation Abby Tripp Heverin 8 Coaching World As the Communications and Awards Manager for ICF Global, Abby helps individuals and organizations share their successes through platforms including CW, the International Prism Award program and the ICF Foundation’s Gift of Coaching Award program. Prior to joining the ICF Global staff in 2013, she worked in the publishing industry. As a professional coach, you’ve no doubt invested a great deal of time, energy and perhaps even financial resources in building your personal brand, both off- and online. However, all of your work may be for naught if you don’t have a positive reputation to back it up. In their book, Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online (Wiley, 2008), reputation-management experts Andy Beal and Judy Strauss, Ph.D. define reputation against what it is not: “Reputation is not what the company or individual thinks about itself, but what others think. It is pure perception that may or may not be ba