Build Your Dream Network

J. Kelly Hoey’s lessons from networking show how to forge strong connections with coworkers and clients alike.
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J. Kelly Hoey is an experienced speaker and expert on networking who has helped countless individuals utilize the principles behind successful networking to grow as leaders, assert themselves in the workplace, and take the lead on new and innovative projects.

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Build Your Dream Network is an indispensable guide to the fundamentals of successful networking, empowering readers to make genuine connections as they continue to develop and grow within an organization.

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J. Kelly Hoey addresses audiences of all interests and sizes on how effective networking is the key to launching new ideas and fostering professional growth.

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“[Hoey] understands when and how to activate a network, and how to leverage connections to build value.”
Elizabeth Talerman, CEO, Managing Partner, Nucleus
“You will learn that your networks are how you make your ideas mighty enough to dent the world. ”
Nilofer Merchant, award-winning entrepreneur, TED speaker, and author of The Power of Onlyness
“J. Kelly Hoey shares the new rules for transforming from outsider status to the name everyone keeps hearing about.”
Ophira Edut, The AstroTwins
“To define J. Kelly Hoey as a connector would be a major understatement. She’s a super-connector because people know she gets things done.”
Tara Hunt, digital marketing executive and author of The Power of Social Networking
“'Build Your Dream Network' offers seriously good advice for people who want to network in a manner that’s genuine and effective. I wish I had it thirty years ago.”
Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist

Program Topics

  • Networking Into Leadership Roles

    College students and new professionals may feel lost when stepping into their career potential and overlook the networking opportunities they need to succeed. The truth is that among the digital connections forged through passion projects and nurtured on social media, young professionals can find tools for success. In this talk, J. Kelly Hoey dismantles networking misconceptions, opening her audience’s eyes to the best ways to leverage opportunity into careers.

  • Networks Women Need

    The path to success is paved by networking and the explosion of women’s networks rival those of their male counterparts. In this motivating talk, J. Kelly Hoey focuses on the unique opportunities women have today in creating proactive and focused networks, as well as strategies for leveraging all the powerful networking tools at their disposal.

Build Your Dream Network

Build Your Dream Network

FORGING POWERFUL RELATIONSHIPS IN A HYPER-CONNECTED WORLD

If you think of networking as schmoozing at boring cocktail parties or scrolling through LinkedIn for new contacts to add, think again. In the social media age, you need a modern roadmap for creating and cultivating meaningful connections to stand out from the crowd and achieve your goals, no matter how big or small. In Build Your Dream Network, acclaimed business columnist and networking expert J. Kelly Hoey presents innovative strategies for forming strong relationships—the genuine, mutually beneficial, long-lasting kind—using all of the tools at your disposal.

FORMATS AVAILABLE: Paperback, Hardcover, eBook

PAGE COUNT; PUBLICATION DATE: 256 pages; January 2, 2018

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Build Your Dream Network

“Anything worth doing requires a team of champions and supporters—and this book is the essential guide for how to cultivate that team long before you need it.”

—Marci Alboher, VP, Encore.org and author, The Encore Career Handbook

“An easy-to-use guide to the art of networking in the ‘new economy’…. Kelly marvelously succeeds in instilling in her readers the attitude that whether one is attempting to secure a job, find a publisher, or finance a new business venture, tapping into the right network is the answer.”

—Publishers Weekly
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