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Executive branding

Executive branding that shows up in the pipeline, not just the feed.

We build the public voice of a chief executive and then track what the market does with it. Every month a former McKinsey, BCG or Bain consultant interviews your executive, pulls out the point of view they already hold, and turns it into content that reaches the buyers, investors and hires who matter. You get the reach numbers. You also get the revenue ones.

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The difference

Thought leadership isn’t written for you. It’s extracted from you.

Most executive branding firms hand you a writer and a content calendar. The writer researches your industry, drafts something plausible, and asks you to approve it. What goes out is competent and anonymous, because it came from someone who has never run your company.

We work the other way around. The raw material is already in your head. Our job is to get it out, sharpen it, and put it where your market is looking. That is why our interviewers are former strategy consultants rather than copywriters. They know how to ask a chief executive a question that produces a real answer.

“My first two LinkedIn posts with Executive Presence drove a full year of sales pipeline. The ROI is insane.”

Keziah Wonstolen, CEO, Vannin Chief of Staff
What most firms do
A writer and a calendar
Your name on someone else’s thinking. It reads like everyone else because it was made the same way as everyone else.
What we do
A consultant and an interview
One hour a month with a former McKinsey, BCG or Bain consultant. Your point of view, in your language, published on a schedule you never have to think about.
What most firms measure
Impressions and followers
Numbers that go up whether or not anything happens in the business.
What we measure
Who showed up because of it
Reach, yes. But also the inbound conversations, the hires, the investor calls and the deals that trace back to a post.
The engagement

What you actually get

One monthly hour from your executive. Everything else is ours. The work runs in four parts, and all four are live from the first month.

01

The interview

A focused 60-minute session every month with a former McKinsey, BCG or Bain consultant. Not a content brief. A real conversation about what you are seeing in your market, what you believe that your peers do not, and what you have changed your mind about.

  • One hour a month is the entire time commitment
  • Interviewers who can hold a strategy conversation, not just take notes
  • Recorded and mined for a month of material, so nothing is wasted
02

The content

Everything published comes out of that hour. We draft in your voice, you approve, we publish. The mix is roughly 80 percent substance and 20 percent company, because the first is what earns the audience that makes the second worth doing.

  • At least two posts a week, so you stay present rather than sporadic
  • Long-form articles where a subject deserves the room
  • Native content only, since outbound links suppress reach
  • Video and newsletter assets where they fit the story
03

The positioning

Your profile is the first thing a buyer, a candidate or an investor reads about you, and most executive profiles are a resume. We rebuild yours to say what you stand for and who you serve.

  • A 14-point profile rebuild covering search, first impression and proof
  • Banner and headshot direction so the page looks like the person
  • Comment and inbox management, so the conversation your posts start does not die
  • Message strategy that ties your story to the company’s
04

The measurement

Every month you get a report that says what happened and what we are changing because of it. This is the part most firms skip, and it is the reason we can tell you which posts are worth repeating.

  • Reach, engagement and audience composition, not just totals
  • Who is actually reading, by title, company and seniority
  • Benchmarks against the executives you are compared to
  • A calibration each quarter, so the strategy moves with the results
Why LinkedIn first

We start where your buyers already are, then follow them out.

LinkedIn is where 67 million companies and the people who run them already spend attention, and it is the one major platform that still rewards a substantive point of view over a viral one. That makes it the cheapest place to build an executive audience from nothing.

It is not the last stop. Once the voice is working and we can see who is listening, we expand into the channels the data says are worth your time: podcasts, newsletters, video, earned media. The interview that produces a LinkedIn post produces those too. That is the advantage of extracting the material once and using it everywhere.

Questions

What executives ask before they start

What is executive branding?

It is the work of defining what a leader stands for and then making that visible to the people whose opinion changes the business: buyers, investors, candidates, partners and press. In practice it means a clear point of view, published consistently, in the places those people already look.

How is this different from a ghostwriter?

A ghostwriter starts with a blank page and researches their way to something that sounds like you. We start with an interview and work outward from what you already think. The difference shows up in the specifics: the anecdote from a board meeting, the number you argue about internally, the position you hold that your competitors would not say out loud.

How much of my time does this take?

One hour a month for the interview, plus whatever time you want to spend approving drafts. Most clients spend under two hours a month in total. If a program needs more than that from a chief executive, it will not survive a busy quarter, which is why we designed it this way.

Why not just post on my own?

Some executives can and should. The ones who come to us have usually tried, produced good posts for three weeks, and then stopped when the quarter got hard. Consistency is the whole game on LinkedIn, and consistency is exactly what a chief executive’s calendar destroys first. We hold the cadence so you only have to hold the ideas.

How do you capture my voice?

By recording you saying it. The interview is the source, so the drafts start from your phrasing rather than a style guide. The first month is the calibration period, and by the second most clients are approving drafts with minor edits.

How long before I see results?

Reach usually moves in the first month, because the profile rebuild and a real cadence do most of that work. Pipeline is slower and depends on who your audience is and what you sell. Keziah Wonstolen saw a year of pipeline from her first two posts, which is the fast end rather than the average. We show you the reach data monthly so you are never guessing while the slower part compounds.

Start with a diagnostic, not a pitch.

Tell us who the executive is and we will look at how they currently show up: the profile, the last year of content, the audience they are reaching and the one they are not. You get that read whether or not you hire us.

We reply within one business day.

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