Bring Your Gold: Building Your Personal Brand
Personal brand building workshop
A dynamic session focused on building presence and communicating your personal brand with authenticity and impact. Drawing on principles of performance and presentation, participants explore how storytelling, reflection, and embodied practice strengthen executive presence and reveal their “gold”…
Workshop
Description
A dynamic session focused on building presence and communicating your personal brand with authenticity and impact. Drawing on principles of performance and presentation, participants explore how storytelling, reflection, and embodied practice strengthen executive presence and reveal their “gold” — the values and strengths that define how they show up and connect.
Benefits
This interactive workshop blends performance techniques with mindful communication to help participants develop authentic executive presence. We begin with guided reflection to uncover each person’s unique “gold” — the values, strengths, and stories that define who they are. Through partner dialogue, movement, and voice exercises, participants explore how presence and storytelling shape connection and influence.
In the second half, attendees craft and share a short personal narrative that embodies their gold, receiving gentle facilitation and peer feedback to strengthen clarity, confidence, and resonance. By the end, participants leave with practical tools for showing up with ease and authenticity in presentations, meetings, and everyday communication.
Hosted by Chris McLinden
About the Host
Christopher McLinden is a facilitator and communication coach with a 20 year background in performance and storytelling. Drawing on his experience as an actor and producer, he helps leaders and teams build confidence, clarity, and presence in how they communicate. Chris brings a performer’s understanding of what it takes to stay grounded under pressure and respond authentically in the moment. Through rehearsal-based learning and structured dialogue, he helps participants practice difficult conversations and strengthen the trust and creativity that sustain effective culture.
Focus Areas
Development/Coaching
Location
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Languages
English
Travel Locations
I'm comfortable traveling within the U.S. and happy to travel internationally as needed.
Corporate Experience
Significant
Session Types Offered
Interactive (eg. improv, group-art, yoga etc.)
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Client Requirements
White Board or Flipchart is usefull otherwise ability to share slide decks.
Past Clients
Goldman Sachs, Citadel, GIC, Standard Chartered, Netflix, Blackrock
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