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PERSONAL BRANDING WORKSHOP

Everyone knows what you do.
Far fewer know what you stand for.

Opinions have never been cheaper. Anyone can now generate a confident view on anything in seconds, which means a confident view is worth almost nothing on its own. What still carries weight is a leader who knows what they actually stand for and can say it in their own words.

The Personal Branding Workshop is a facilitated workshop that gets your people to that answer, together, and turns it into something the organisation can use.

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REALITY
THE DILEMMA YOU FACE

Personal brand or company brand?

Most leadership teams treat the organisational brand as the serious work, and personal branding as something individuals do for themselves in their own time. Often, budgets follow that decision, and so does status.

However, the reality is that your organisation is already being represented by personal brands:

No client has ever met your logo. They meet your people. Every leader in your organisation already carries a reputation into every room they enter, whether or not anyone has ever shaped it, and that reputation is doing work on your behalf either way. The only real question is whether those reputations point in the same direction as your strategy, or quietly away from it.

Left unexamined, this is what it costs you:

  • Leaders who are visible in their roles but unrecognised for their thinking.
  • A strategy everyone can recite and nobody can personally account for.
  • Senior people competing for the same narrow patch of credibility instead of covering the field between them.

Are you known for what you want to be known for?

TOGETHER
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE ROOM

The room finds out who is in it

Participants do the thinking alone and then say it out loud to each other. That second part is where the workshop stops being an exercise in self-reflection and starts being an exercise in organisational value.

People who have worked alongside each other for years routinely learn something new about a colleague within the first hour. Why they are actually here. What they want to be remembered for. What they are quietly best at and have never had a reason to say.

Knowing this about each other is commercially useful

Once you know what a colleague stands for, you can introduce them properly, hand them the client conversation they are right for, and recommend them in terms they would recognise. Most organisations leave that on the table, because nobody has ever said it out loud in the same room.

Alignment, not competition

Individual positioning is mapped against what the organisation is trying to achieve, so personal visibility compounds the organisational brand instead of competing with it.

Leaders who can carry it

Strategy stops being a document only the leadership can recite, and becomes something each of them can account for in their own words.

Mutual advocacy

A team that can articulate each other’s value to clients, not only their own.

FORMAT
THE PROCESS

How the workshop runs

The workshop runs in three blocks over a few weeks. Two are collective. One is yours alone. In person or virtual.

01

First session

COLLECTIVE

We set the ground. How personal presence and organisational brand actually relate, why treating them as a trade-off costs you both, and what we are going to ask of you. You leave with homework, and the homework is the point: the workshop cannot be scheduled until every participant has submitted theirs.

02

The Workshop

COLLECTIVE

Interactive reflection and guided discussion, structured around our Personal Brand Formula. Participants write their own definitions first, then hear what their colleagues see. Most of the value is in the distance between the two.

03

Your individual session

ONE TO ONE · CONFIDENTIAL

Everything you contributed is analysed and returned to you as a personal report. You then book a private session with us to work through what it says.

IMPACT
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH

What each person leaves with, and what the organisation gets

For each participant

  • A stated definition of what you stand for and the impact you want to make.
  • An honest read on the gap between how you are perceived and how you want to be.
  • A personal report built from your own contributions, and a private session to interrogate it with us.
  • A clearer sense of how to communicate your positioning without performing.

For the organisation

  • Leadership visibility that pulls towards your strategic objectives rather than away from them.
  • A team that understands what each of its members is strongest at, and can say so to a client.
  • A shared language for something most organisations never make explicit.
WHO
WHO THIS IS FOR

Participation and the conditions we set

The workshop is run for leadership networks, professional associations, entrepreneurs’ groups, boards, next-generation cohorts, and leadership teams inside a larger organisation.

What these have in common is not seniority. It is that the people in the room have some reason to care what the others think of them, and something to gain from being able to describe each other accurately. The peer exchange is the mechanism, and it does not work in a room with no relationship in it.

Conditions we ask for:

  • Every participant attends live. No partial attendance.
  • Homework submitted before scheduling, by everyone.
  • A quiet space, to take part fully in the experience.
NEXT STEPS
WHAT COMES AFTER

How to move forward after the workshop

Some people finish the workshop with what they came for. They have their definition, they know where they stand, and that is enough.

Others find the questions have opened something larger. For them there is the Personal Branding Journey, our core engagement, where positioning and story are developed in depth over a series of individual sessions.

Both outcomes are correct. We will tell you plainly which one we think applies to you, in your individual session, before you are asked to decide anything.

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FOR LEADERS
THE SERVICES WE OFFER

Start your journey in a team or individually.

Personal Branding Workshop

Your leaders already carry reputations into every room they enter, whether anyone has shaped them or not. This is the session where they decide what those reputations should say, in front of each other, so the organisation gets the benefit rather than the risk.
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Personal Branding Journey

The Personal Branding Journey is our core engagement: a series of individual sessions in which we work out what you stand for, who needs to know it, and what in your record proves it. You finish with your Personal Brand Positioning and your Personal Brand Story, written in your own voice, ready to use.
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Personal Brand Retainer

A team sits with you weekly and works through whatever is in front of you, deciding what each opportunity looks like once your positioning is applied to it. Over six months, your visibility, what you publish, and the decisions in front of you stop being handled one at a time and start aligning around the same positioning goal.
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NEXT
NEXT STEPS

An initial conversation,
followed by a proposal.

The first conversation takes approximately thirty minutes, is provided without charge, and carries no obligation. We ask that whoever will ultimately approve the engagement takes part in it.

A proposal follows, outlining the scope, participants, and timeline.

Where the engagement requires board or leadership approval, we can provide a short written summary for internal circulation.

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