Professor / Speaker / Founder

Be knownfor whatyou know.

Helping leaders and organisations build personal brands people trust, through keynotes, trainings, and research.

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A long jump is never only a sport.

Long jump has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. It became a philosophy: always reaching further, aiming higher, refusing to settle for the distance already cleared.

That instinct has a soundtrack. puts it perfectly: some people glimpse the crescent, while others see the whole of the moon. That is how I think about potential, and I want to help people reach the whole of theirs.

Years in academia and marketing, and a passion for brands and social media, led me to one realisation: the most powerful brand a person can build is their own. In 2019 I founded Persona Cognita, Lithuania's first personal branding consultancy.

Today I'm a Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies at ISM University of Management and Economics, founder of Persona Cognita, and co-founder of The Promise. I research, teach, advise leadership teams, and share these ideas from the stage.

Dominyka Venciūtė seated in a bright studio wearing purple trainers

See the whole of the moon.

Work

Four ways we can jump together.

Every engagement is built around the audience, the context, and the distance you want to clear.

Speak

On stage

Keynotes & hosting

Dominyka speaking at LOGIN 2026
Dominyka hosting on the LOGIN stage
Dominyka delivering a career keynote
Dominyka delivering a keynote at PwC

I've given keynotes at 100+ conferences and reached tens of thousands of people at corporate events, leadership offsites, industry summits, award nights, and private gatherings. I also host business events and moderate panels.

Personal branding

Visibility is easy. Being known for the right thing is the valuable part. Build a personal brand on trust, not noise.

Selected stages

LiMA
Revolution
The Promise
RIGA COMM
Teams

Inside the company

Trainings

Practical, hands-on programmes that turn your people into your strongest brand.

  1. Personal Branding for Executives

    Strategic, credible personal brands that open doors for the whole organisation.

  2. Personal Branding & Employee Advocacy for Teams

    A practical system for positioning, content, and confident employee advocacy.

  3. LinkedIn That Works

    Positioning, profile optimisation, and content that earns attention for the right reasons.

  4. Building an Advocacy Program from Scratch

    A repeatable, measurable engine instead of a one-off campaign.

Delivered throughPersona Cognita
Strategy

Before the doing

Strategy sessions

Deep working sessions with your leadership team, shaped around what the organisation needs now.

  1. Personal Brand Strategy for Leadership Teams

    Align leaders’ individual brands with where the business is going.

  2. Employer Brand Strategy

    Define what makes the company worth working for and how to communicate it.

  3. EVP Development

    Craft an Employee Value Proposition that is true, distinctive, and actually lived.

  4. Advocacy & Content Strategy

    Shape the positioning, pillars, and plan behind visible, value-driven content.

Dominyka Venciūtė and Rūta Lapinskienė in conversation

Employer Brand Strategy and EVP Development are delivered through The Promise, the employer marketing agency I co-founded with Rūta Lapinskienė.

Co-founded agencyThe Promise
Partners

With aligned brands

Brand collaborations

I use my own platform to champion products, services and causes I genuinely believe in, from personal growth and career to leadership and living intentionally.

Building my own brand means I know what it takes to build yours. I work with a small, carefully chosen group of brands whose values align with mine.

Representation by PERSONAL
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Selected brands
Research

Years in academia and research are the run-up behind every talk and strategy I deliver.

I'm a Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies at ISM University of Management and Economics, where I direct the International Marketing and Management master's programme.

I teach across Marketing Principles, Integrated Marketing Communications, Personal Branding, and Brand Management.

Beyond the lecture hall, I supervise student research at bachelor's, master's, and doctoral (PhD) level, guiding emerging marketers from their very first thesis through to original doctoral work.

All publications on Google Scholar
Dominyka Venciūtė in an academic setting
  1. Personal branding
  2. Employee advocacy on social media
  3. Influencer marketing
  4. Corporate social advocacy & brand activism
Media
Dominyka Venciūtė speaking at an event

As seen & heard.

Journalists, editors, producers, and podcast hosts regularly ask for my take on the ideas reshaping how people and companies become known. When there's a match, I'm glad to contribute.

Media & booking inquiries
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Let's jump together

Ready to be known for what you know?

Whether you're building a personal brand, activating your organisation's leaders or employee ambassadors, looking for a keynote speaker, or seeking the right partner for your project, I'd love to hear from you.