Regardless of your current level, most auditors experience the same things at some point.

• We’re outsiders.
• We don’t really know how things operate.
• We’re tolerated, but unwanted.

Sure. All that’s probably true. At some point in our careers.

But we can flip that script.

Instead of simply doing audits ‘because it’s our job’, we can take advantage of these tremendous opportunities to build ourselves into a meaningful professional brand.

Anyone can become essential. It takes a little work.

Actually, it doesn’t take much work. But you have to want it. And you have to invest in yourself.

“Dream big, start small, but most of all, start.”

Simon Sinek

Like building a retirement nest egg, building your brand is a lot easier when you start early.

No matter where you’re at in your career, if you haven’t already, start building your professional brand today. Trust the wisdom that it will put your career on an inevitably higher trajectory.