About Us
PersonalPresence was founded in 2019 by Chris Hollis and Craig McGregor, who were inspired to share their experience and expertise working with an amazing array of experts, academics, psychologists, consultants and coaches.
Our teams work with CEOs and business leaders, international brands, start-ups, entrepreneurs, entertainers, charities, politicians, academics, and ambitious students.
PersonalPresence helps you define, enrich and amplify the best possible version – of yourself and your organisation.
How do we work?
We advise on strategy, provide coaching and consultancy, deliver training workshops,
profile your team brand and help you create compelling content.
We carefully tailor our approach, format and content to meet your agreed goals.
We consider your current situation, your priorities, your budget, and any approaching deadlines.
Within organisations we focus on building your ‘Team Brand’ to optimise leadership, boost performance and develop a positive and supportive culture.
For individuals we’ll boost your self-awareness, revealing the strategies and techniques you need to lead and succeed, personalised to amplify your natural character and personality.
Strategy and Team Brand
Everything you need to build an effective strategy, optimise your culture, and unify your team’s purpose.
- Focus on purpose. Amplify collaboration
- Build the best, long-term, adaptive strategy
- Audit your working culture and values
- Optimise team cohesion and performance
- Motivate your team; ignite their passion
- Goal-focused learning and everyday coaching
- Build an empowering leadership style
- Link your strategic goals to everyday business
Stand out from the crowd
Learn how to create the very best first impression, then manage your relationships for mutual benefit and personal progress.
- Building your PersonalPresence – voice, tone, content, writing, body language, and social media
- Mastering EQ to build and strengthen relationships
- Asserting yourself in forums, meetings and 1-2-1’s
- Boosting your personal brand with stakeholders and peers
- Crafting your delivery and engagement skills
Presenting yourself
Structure, Content and Tone – the building blocks for the power of your presence – on screen or in person.
- Preparing and planning for success
- Virtual meetings to motivate and inspire
- Using PowerPoint to win hearts and minds
- Formal presentations – scenarios and skills
- Projecting the authentic version of you
- Your personal impact – top tips and tactics
- Speeches – how to hit your mark every time
Your Pitch. Your Message.
How to get noticed in the digital age.
- Pitches. Proposals. Presentations. Profiles.
- Crafting your message for maximum impact
- It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
- Your online identity: CVs, profiles, posts, endorsements
- Writing better – reports, statements, letters, posts, and emails.
- How to cut through digital noise and clutter
Interview Success
In 2020, most academic and employer interviews took place online. Find out how to prepare, practise and deliver.
- What do employers now look for?
- How do they search for it?
- Answering – and asking – questions effectively
- Subject-specific interview role-plays
- Managing group and one-to-one interviews
- Responding to tricky questions
- Advanced communication techniques
Leadership Coaching
We work with leaders and their teams to unify and motivate, to progress and excel, with practical guidance and measurable milestones.
- Profiling your ‘Team Brand’
- Strategic insight and guidance to achieve your goals
- Support to manage positive change
- Mentoring to develop and exploit your potential
- Motivating and inspiring your team
- Managing projects on time, on budget, and on target.
Our teams like to keep in touch with all our clients, to support their progress and add value whenever we can.
“When there is very little, if anything, to choose between brands or solutions, we tend to choose the one that talks to us in the most engaging voice.”
Lindsay Camp, copywriter
‘May I change your mind?’
Biographies
About Craig
Craig is an in-demand speaker, trainer and communication strategist.
With a career spanning executive leadership in media, marketing services, training and management consultancy, Craig has gained a unique and wide-ranging insight into successful communications strategy for organisations of all types and sizes.
As an expert communicator he works on projects including: strategic consultancy; brand building and naming; online content; marketing planning; advertising; and talent acquisition.
Craig has also built a strong reputation for generating rapid, effective results in the training room, and his IDEA template is now widely adopted by professional copywriters. He focuses on attracting and engaging the right target audience, using core human values to grow and sustain a productive dialogue.
About Chris
Chris read English at St Andrews University before training as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy. His theatre work includes repertory and West End, including a recent two-year stint in a lead role in MAMMA MIA! He has worked regularly with the R.S.C. and enjoyed numerous television appearances in commercials and dramas including East Enders, A Touch of Frost, Brookside, The Bill, and Life Begins at 40.
As a director, Chris has produced many shows, ranging from open air Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing), to musicals such as Grease, Honk, Just So and Guys & Dolls. He runs regular workshops for Petersfield Youth Theatre, and is a driving force behind the highly respected and popular annual Petersfield Shakespeare Festival.
As a coach, he combines the skills of writer, trainer and actor to deliver creative and motivational support and guidance. He is known for challenging and changing attitudes in the corporate world, and increasing self-awareness and boosting confidence with individuals for interviews, presentations and speeches. His hugely varied clients have included managers & CEOs, drama-school applicants, university students, trainee vicars and stand-up comedians.
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
Albert Einstein
Our clients
Personal Presence works with brands and organisations of all sizes to improve their performance and optimise their culture, typically in highly competitive markets.
Our corporate clients include:
Schools and Universities
We offer senior schools, colleges and universities an added-value service.
An extra dimension to boost the confidence and presence of your students.
Building on Mindfulness to develop their potential and achieve real presence.
As parents, both Chris and Craig know first-hand the pressures that young people face, and they want to help others overcome these challenges.
Demand for places at top universities is still extremely high, and of course certain sectors of the employment market are now ultra-competitive.
Gaining exceptional results is no longer enough; students need to demonstrate their character, their attitude, their true potential and determination. They also need to present themselves persuasively and memorably, often in very short timescales.
This is where PersonalPresence will help.
We’re always keen to discuss how we can work with your academic or pastoral team to optimise your students’ performance. We are also open to direct requests for assistance from both individual students or their parents.
Here are some suggestions:
Workshops
Full or half day
Briefings
Seminar-style updates for smaller groups
Coaching
Individuals or small selected groups
Personal Support
Telephone, email or text support
Role Play
Subject-specific interview practice
PERSONALPRESENCE
Rookham House
Petersfield, Hampshire GU32 1HT
and
Covers Farm
Bramshott, Hampshire GU30 7SW
PRESENT YOURSELF MEMORABLY
PURPOSE • CLARITY • IMPACT