We’re back for a new season (#6) of the REPUTATION REVOLUTION podcast - available now from your favourite podcast app, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Spotify.
GUEST INTERVIEW: Ashley Faus, Director of Integrated Product Marketing at Atlassian
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We recently covered on REPUTATION REVOLUTION the vexed question: Personal brand versus business brand - which one should we focus on?
In this episode of the podcast, we tackle an equally common question: What’s the difference between subject matter experts and thought leaders?
To help me dig deeper into this topic, I am joined by Director of Integrated Product Marketing at Atlassian, Ashley Faus.
This is a subject dear to Ashley’s heart, and she has some strong views on it, as you’ll hear!
Ashley has developed a framework she calls the Four Pillars of Thought Leadership - you can check it out here.
She unpacks the framework and its four pillars:
Credibility
Profile
Prolific
Depth of Ideas
Semantics, or not?
While the whole ‘expert vs thought leader’ debate might sound like semantics, both Ashley and I agree that understanding the key differences between the two really does matter.
Talking points include:
Old school thought leader vs the ‘new’ thought leader
How some businesses approach thought leadership (badly) - looking at you SaaS companies!
Why experts shouldn’t attempt a TED Talk (and why thought leaders shouldn’t be in customer support!)
What value do you provide to the audience? It matters! Why thought leaders and experts need to keep updating their knowledge.
The concept of 'Expertville vs Visionary Town'
We also have a sidebar conversation about LinkedIn, and why it's important to be intentional with the content we post on the site, plus we wade into the ‘professional content’ vs 'personal content' debate!
Name-checked in this episode:
It's a fun and energetic discussion, I hope you enjoy it!
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Onwards!
Trevor
Expert vs thought leader: what’s the difference?