Sandy Grigsby
Sandy Grigsby is a public speaker and personal branding image specialist, empowerment photographer,[1] certified high-performance coach,[2] and founder of Briofive LLC, a photography studio located in Los Angeles, California.[3] Grigsby was born in Switzerland to a Black, Native American father and Swiss mother. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area[4] and graduated from American Intercontinental University, magna cum laude, with a BFA in visual communications.[5] She is also the author of I Am Who I Am, an illustrated children's book.[6]
Career
Grigsby worked as a commercial print model in 1998, modeling for companies such as Tempur-Pedic, Apple, United Airlines, Sony, and T-Mobile.[7] Aside from modeling, she also worked as a freelance web designer, and animal[8] and product photography.[4]
In June 2005,[5] Grigsby founded Briofive, a graphic and web design company, which by 2014, developed into a personal branding photography studio.[3] Her photography style exclusively focuses on showing industry leaders and entrepreneurs[9] as confident experts in their fields.[10] Through her work, Grigsby aims to help women find their self-worth and confidence;[11] [12] her style of photography emerged —the Empowerment Portrait.[13] Grigsby's work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times,[14] the Cape Cod Times,[15] and Racked San Francisco.[16]
Grigsby began working as a freelance photographer in 2001 and worked with organizations across the United States including Cheryl Saban's Self-Worth Foundation[17] and San Francisco Fleet Week.[5] In 2008,[5] she started Dogchatter Inc.,[18] an online retail store and magazine featuring photography of her household pets[19] which closed in 2017.[5]
Grigsby has spoken at two TEDx conferences: TEDxJHUDC (Johns Hopkins Undergraduate Debate Council)[20] presenting her talk, Photographs of the Invisible,[21] and TEDxReno with Make Your Image Tell the Truth About You.[22] She has also spoken at Dress for Success,[23] UN Women,[24] and the Winning Edge World Conference.[25][26] Additionally, Grigsby has spoken as a personal branding image expert on podcasts such as MindValley[27] and Kwikbrain.[28]
Grigsby runs a podcast, Life in Focus with Sandy Grigsby, covering topics including self-worth and entrepreneurship. It has featured Dr. Bill Dorfman, Jim Kwik, Lisa Scaffidi, and Ken Rutkowski.[29] In October 2022, she became an official instructor with LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com.[30] In July 2023 she started working with Prince Stash to establish his Tik Tok account as a "graninfluencer" (older people who embrace social media to share their history and wisdom). [31]
References
- ↑ Stories, Local (3 April 2018). "Meet Sandy Grigsby of Brio Five in Santa Monica - Voyage LA Magazine | LA City Guide". Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Certified High Performance Coaching". www.sandyinfocus.com. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Empowerment and Professional Brand Photography". Brio Five | Personal Branding Photography by Sandy Grigsby. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Journey of Sandy Grigsby – Compulsive Magazine". Retrieved 2019-11-20.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Grigsby, Sandy. "Sandy Grigsby". Linkedin.
- ↑ I Am Who I Am. 11 May 2016. Search this book on
- ↑ "About Sandy". www.sandyinfocus.com. Archived from the original on 2019-11-23. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
- ↑ "Readers' Exhibition Gallery • Sandy Grigsby". Wild Planet Photo Magazine. 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Our Story – Boobalicious Natural Deodorant – Breast Deodorant". Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "MF 150 : Sandy Grigsby on Unleashing Your Magical Superpower to Move Forward | Moving Forward". Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "You'll Never Take a Bad Photo Again After Hearing Her Story". Beyond The Interview. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Building a Winning Personal Brand with Women Who Win - A New Series with Personal Brand Expert Sandy Grigsby". Women Who Win. 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
- ↑ Athmer, Kate (2018-02-15). "20- "The Magic of Empowerment Portraits" with Sandy Grigsby". Millennial Reboot. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "David L. Bahnsen takes on the blame game in 'Crisis of Responsibility'". Los Angeles Times. 2018-05-04. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Illusion and comedy mix for magic gala". capecodtimes.com. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ Drieu, Natalie Zee (2016-02-24). "So What's Your Superga SF Story, Claudia Volpi?". Racked SF. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Meet The Founder". selfworthfoundation. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Chat It Up with Dog Chatter". Mom Blog Society. 2015-12-17. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Animal Friends: Website's mascots have personality plus". The Mercury News. 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "TEDxJHUDC | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Home". TEDxJHU. Archived from the original on 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ Grigsby, Sandy (2023-03-14), Make Your Image Tell the Truth About You, retrieved 2023-05-16
- ↑ "Sandy Grigsby". Welcome Home Together. Archived from the original on 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Past Events | UN Women USA". unwomenusa.org. Retrieved 2019-11-21.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Winning Edge Africa". www.winningedgeafrica.com. Retrieved 2019-11-20.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "SA financial 'wunderkind' to share his secrets on the Winning Edge". citizen.co.za. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ Mindvalley (2022-07-04). "Styling tips for a powerful and confident self-image - Sandy Grigsby". The Mindvalley Podcast With Vishen Lakhiani | Listen Now. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ↑ "Level Up Your Self-Esteem with Sandy Grigsby". Jim Kwik. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ↑ "Life in Focus with Sandy Grigsby: Personal Branding, High Performance, Confidence, Self Worth, Entrepreneurship on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ "Get your personal brand working for you - Creating Your Online Image Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ↑ "Acid with Pink Floyd and harems with Paul McCartney … the wild life of Stash, the playboy prince". The Guardian. 2023-09-01. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
External links
- Sandyinfocus Website
- Brio Five Website
- TEDx Photographs of the Invisible
- TEDx Make Your Image Tell the Truth About You
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