Client Positioning Session
Your work is bigger than the way you describe it.
In one Client Positioning Session, I help you find the future your work is building and the words that carry it. You leave with an AI-ready client brain and a marketing packet written in your own voice.
Send a message to get startedOne working session with me, plus prep before and your packet after.
The problem
You've spent years getting very good at something. Maybe decades. People who work with you know what you're worth.
Then someone new reads your website or your LinkedIn, and they see a list of jobs, tools and titles. Accurate, and flat. The reason your work matters to real people is missing from the page.
That's frustrating. You can explain the technical side in your sleep, but when you try to say why it matters, the words come out either too small or too big. So you keep putting off the bio, the launch, the book, the podcast pitch.
And it isn't fair. The people your work could help can't find you or can't tell why you're the one to call.
I've sat on both sides of this
I've been helping smart people explain their work since 1998, when I started in digital selling banner ads for AOL NetFind. Since then I've built a Top 100 iTunes podcast, written Empowered Intelligence, and created the AI Brain System that I use with clients today. I lead Human First Media.
I'm also a 3rd Degree Master Black Belt and Self Defense Instructor. I teach marketing the way I teach on the mat: one calm step at a time, until it feels natural.
A lot of my clients are brilliant at what they do and new to talking about it. My job is to take the new ideas, including the AI ones, and put them into plain words you'd actually say.
The plan
Step one: Send a message and tell me what you do, who you serve and what you want next. Send a message to get started
Step two: Do the session with me. You tell me plainly what you want to do. I ask why, and we follow the answer until we find the future you want your work to create.
Step three: Review your assets. I turn the positioning you approve into real pieces in your own voice, ready for your website, LinkedIn and next launch.
Step four: You approve before anything goes out. Nothing is published or sent without your OK.
What happens in the session
I ask why. You come in with something clear you want to do. I ask why you want it. That question usually shows the future you want your work to create, and that future points to the right direction.
I listen for who you're becoming. Your resume tells me where you've been. I'm listening for the future identity under it, because the best positioning says where you're going.
I find the human stakes. Inside every bit of technical skill is a person who's affected by it. We name who that is and what they get when your work goes well.
I test words out loud. We try words and phrases together until one does several jobs at once. Then I separate two things that often get blended: the vision of where you're going, and the principle that makes people care and act.
What you leave with
Every client leaves with two things.
1. An AI-ready client brain. Your positioning, voice, audience and offers, organized with my AI Brain System so ChatGPT, Claude or Grok can write from your own words instead of guessing.
2. An editable marketing packet. Built from the positioning you approved and written in your voice. A recent packet included:
- Website bios at several lengths
- Your current website copy next to the proposed copy, side by side
- A LinkedIn headline and About section
- A launch article for LinkedIn
- A buying-beliefs map: what your buyers need to believe before they say yes
- An invitation to send to podcast hosts when you want to be a guest
- A clean-up list of the ideas we tried and set aside, so they don't creep back in
What's in your packet depends on what you're working toward.
Who this is for
This is for experts who believe their work can change something for people and want the words to finally match it.
It's a good fit if you:
- Have deep experience in a technical or specialized field
- Have a bio that reads like a resume
- Are about to launch something new, like a book, a new direction, speaking or a podcast
- Want AI to write in your voice from now on
Who it's not for
It's probably a poor fit if you:
- Want a logo, colors or a visual brand
- Need copy live by tomorrow without a review step
- Are looking for a general AI course (the Skill Pack or Claude guides may suit you better)
An example session
A clean energy engineer with three decades of experience came to me with a clear idea of what he wanted to do next. His bio was strong on credentials. It didn't yet say why any of it mattered to the people his work would reach.
I asked him why he wanted to make the move. Then I kept asking. His answers kept pointing toward the future he wants his work to build, and that became our direction.
From there we looked for the human stakes in his technical work: who's affected, and what they get. Then we started testing words out loud.
The best moment came when we landed on one everyday word that did three jobs at once. It spoke to the audience he wants to reach. It suggested a concept for a book. And it put him in the position of the expert on that idea. We kept his vision and that guiding principle as two separate pieces, so each one could do its own work.
After he approved the positioning, I built his packet in his own voice: bios at several lengths, his current site copy beside the proposed copy, a LinkedIn headline and About section, a launch article, a buying-beliefs map, a podcast guest invitation and a clean-up of the ideas we set aside. He also left with his AI-ready client brain.
Nothing went out without his approval.
Common questions
How long does it take, and what do I need to prepare?
I'm not a marketer and I'm not technical with AI. Will this work for me?
What is an AI-ready client brain?
How is this different from the AI Brain Build or a Quick Start Session?
Will you publish or post anything for me?
What if I don't like the words we find?
Ready when you are
You've already done the hard part, which is the work itself. This session gives it words that carry the future you want it to create.
Not ready yet? Read the Voice Kit to see how I help AI write the way you talk.