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BlackRock Impact Lab: Be Your Own Brand Strategist

Wednesday, September 10, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Webinar
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Sponsored by
BlackRock
BlackRock
BlackRock Impact Lab: Be Your Own Brand Strategist
WEBINAR
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Sponsored by
BlackRock
BlackRock
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What does it take to build a personal brand that opens doors, creates trust, and drives career momentum, especially in fast-paced, high-stakes environments like tech and finance? Join us for an exclusive Fairygodboss webinar hosted by BlackRock, featuring two powerhouse leaders from the Aladdin business, Katherine Batarin and Lauren Smith. Together, they’ll share actionable insights on how to craft a personal brand that aligns with your values, sets you apart professionally, and helps you navigate your career with purpose.

Whether you're climbing the ladder, pivoting into something new, or looking to lead with more intention, this conversation will walk you through what it means to show up as your authentic self and how to do so in a way that’s strategic and impactful.

During this webinar, you’ll learn about:

  • How to define and evolve your personal brand at every stage of your career

  • Lessons learned from building teams, launching startups, and navigating leadership roles in tech and finance

  • Practical ways to align your brand with your values, skills, and long-term goals

  • Branding tips for women working in complex, often male-dominated industries

  • The role of storytelling in shaping how others perceive your impact

  • Why your personal brand matters more than ever in today’s fast-changing workplace


This event will be recorded and posted here following the event. We'll also email the recording directly to everyone who registers. By registering, you agree to share your email and profile information with the participating company.

Want to attend but can’t make the webinar date work? No problem! Register anyway and we’ll send you the recording for you to watch on your own time.


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Meet the speakers

Katherine Batarin, Director and Global TA Client Lead (Aladdin), BlackRock

Katherine Batarin

Director and Global TA Client Lead (Aladdin), BlackRock

Katherine Batarin

Director and Global TA Client Lead (Aladdin), BlackRock

Katherine Batarin is a dynamic and strategic talent acquisition leader, currently serving as Director and Global TA Client Lead for Aladdin. In this role, she leads a global team responsible for shaping and executing the recruitment strategy across executive, experienced, and early career hiring. Her work ensures that Aladdin’s talent engine is aligned with business priorities and built for scale, agility, and excellence. Katherine’s career spans top-tier financial institutions and global technology platforms. Prior to her current role, ...

Lauren Smith, Director - Financial and Operational Excellence (Aladdin), BlackRock

Lauren Smith

Director - Financial and Operational Excellence (Aladdin), BlackRock

Lauren Smith

Director - Financial and Operational Excellence (Aladdin), BlackRock

Lauren Smith leads financial and operational excellence for Aladdin, with broad responsibility for business management and budget achievement, strategic planning and governance, as well as our tech ecosystem engagements and innovation. She is responsible for ensuring alignment against our objectives, resourcing of our priorities, and oversight of our performance. Prior to BlackRock, Lauren spent most of her career in strategy leadership roles within the growth stage tech community. Most recently she co-founded and led a venture-backed ...

Katherine Batarin, Director and Global TA Client Lead (Aladdin), BlackRock

Katherine Batarin

Director and Global TA Client Lead (Aladdin), BlackRock

Katherine Batarin is a dynamic and strategic talent acquisition leader, currently serving as Director and Global TA Client Lead for Aladdin. In this role, she leads a global team responsible for shaping and executing the recruitment strategy across executive, experienced, and early career hiring. Her work ensures that Aladdin’s talent engine is aligned with business priorities and built for scale, agility, and excellence. Katherine’s career spans top-tier financial institutions and global technology platforms. Prior to her current role, she led talent acquisition for the Aladdin Product Group at BlackRock, where she helped scale hiring operations and embed workforce planning into the business. Before joining BlackRock, she was Head of North America Talent Acquisition for ICG Technology and Operations at Citi, overseeing recruitment across Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Transaction Services, Securities Services, and Private Banking Tech and Ops. Katherine began her career in tech recruiting and executive search, specializing in technology and quantitative talent. She holds an MS degree from Moscow University. Katherine is known for her operational rigor, strategic foresight, and ability to build trust across global stakeholders. Her personal brand is anchored in being a collaborative partner, a builder of inclusive hiring ecosystems, and a relentless advocate for talent excellence. As a subject matter expert in global recruiting operations, she brings deep expertise in: Scaled hiring frameworks for technical and executive roles, early career and campus program design, talent analytics and workforce planning, stakeholder enablement through training and toolkits. Her leadership is consistently recognized for driving transformation in complex, matrixed environments and for elevating the strategic value of talent acquisition within the business.
Lauren Smith, Director - Financial and Operational Excellence (Aladdin), BlackRock

Lauren Smith

Director - Financial and Operational Excellence (Aladdin), BlackRock

Lauren Smith leads financial and operational excellence for Aladdin, with broad responsibility for business management and budget achievement, strategic planning and governance, as well as our tech ecosystem engagements and innovation. She is responsible for ensuring alignment against our objectives, resourcing of our priorities, and oversight of our performance. Prior to BlackRock, Lauren spent most of her career in strategy leadership roles within the growth stage tech community. Most recently she co-founded and led a venture-backed startup within the talent tech space focused on referral marketplaces. Prior to that, she led Strategy & Corporate Development for Foursquare as a member of the executive leadership team as well as led Strategy & Operations for BrightHire, a Series B startup. Lauren has been recognized within Forbes’ 30 under 30 for Enterprise Technology, as a Vanity Fair Future Innovator, and on Culture Amp’s list of the Top 25 Emerging Culture Creators; her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Fortune, Business Insider and Forbes. Lauren began her career as a consultant with Bain & Company in San Francisco and graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a B.A. in American Studies.

Sponsored by BlackRock

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