Clare Forestier Credentials Brochure

Credentials Brochure

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You are a senior events and marketing professional working for
a multinational corporation or successful private business, and
you’ve been given a brief to organise a large and important event,

whether it’s in person, virtual or hybrid.

You’re feeling excited but anxious; a lot is riding on it. You have
lots of questions because while you know you can deliver it, there

is uncertainty about exactly how you’re going to pull it off.

Imagine what it would feel like to work with a professional Emcee;
one with 20+ years’ experience as a BBC broadcast journalist; a
skilled and charismatic presenter who has hosted events for global
clients, Fortune 500 companies and visionary private businesses;
someone who will turn your concerns into confidence and make

you really excited about the event.

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workAN INVITAT ION TO
TOGET HER

A professional Emcee to serve as the thread
linking sessions, speakers and content

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An accomplished presenter to engage, elevate
and energise the audience

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A skilled interviewer to manage discussions
and interviews

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An expert hybrid host with green screen, autocue,
and broadcast experience

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A critical part of your event planning and
design team

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“Clare’s energy, humour and ability to connect with
both audiences and speakers make her a brilliant
Emcee. She is a consummate professional on stage,
but what really sets her apart is the creativity and

collaboration she brings off stage.

I’ve worked with Emcees who “show up and host”
but Clare takes the extra time to understand your
goals and the nuances of your organisation and then
gets deeply involved in the prep work that makes

for an engaging and authentic event.”

Katie Kregel, VICE PRESIDENT,
GLOBAL CORPORATE MARKETING, Mitel Corp

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HOW I ADD value

Giving your event the WOW factor and keeping
your audience engaged and entertained
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Guaranteeing a professional, experienced and
a safe pair of hands
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Making your event appear smooth, seamless
and alive with energy and humour
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Ensuring panel sessions and fireside chats are
deftly managed, perfectly paced and compelling
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Helping speakers and contributors develop their
skills to deliver expert and entertaining sessions

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CLIENT CASE STUDY

MIT EL NET WORK CORPORAT ION

JOB: Host/Emcee for three annual global flagship events in London for this multi-national telecommunications company.

OBJECTIVE: Ensure each event is world-class; deftly delivered, high energy, with audiences engaged and captivated; deliver key
messages in innovative, interactive and compelling ways; use technology to elevate the audience experience and
ensure senior executives and attendees alike are wowed!

D U R AT I O N : Each event lasted 1–3 days and was hosted for 3 different audiences; internal, partner and analyst.

AUDIENCE SIZE: A total of 3,000 attended the events both in person and virtually around the world.

SCOPE: Each event combined a mixture of fresh content with pre-recorded sections that were then re-edited for different audiences.

ROLE: Studio based Emcee, responsible for leading and co-ordinating all the key activities, linking studio, virtual contributors and
‘watch parties’ in different global locations.

TECH: A complex and large-scale event, with a tech/production and broadcast crew of 40 using advanced technology including
*Extended Reality.

*Extended Reality (xR) in live production combines Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality elements to blur lines between physical and virtual events

to create a fully immersive experience.

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CLIENT CASE STUDY

MIT EL NET WORK CORPORAT ION

DETAILED ROLE: The consummate professional, confident and a safe pair of hands for the client at all times, ensuring they felt fully supported
and relaxed, knowing everything would successfully go to plan.

I became part of the planning team, meeting with key stakeholders and contributors prior to the event. I prepared scripts to support
the agenda and a running order to deliver the warm, welcoming and humorous tone the client required, as well as ‘interactive’ and
more spontaneous moments to promote social media engagement.

Supported nervous speakers and panel guests on the day and in the pre-recorded sessions, helping them prepare with confidence.

3 full days of rehearsals & pre-recordings for each event.

On the day, I led and Emceed the entire event seamlessly linking the ‘live’ sessions and interactive segments, along with pre-recorded
interviews and speeches to create a ‘wow’ experience!

I moderated 10 panels, interviews and fireside chats with the leadership team that included the CEO, Chief Sales Officer, CMO, SVPs,
analysts and partners.

THE IMPACT: “Clare is fantastic! Her energy, humour and ability to connect with both audiences and speakers makes her a brilliant
Emcee. But what really sets Clare apart, is the creativity and collaboration she brings offstage. She takes the extra
time to understand your goals and the nuances of your organisation making for an engaging and authentic event.
She has truly become a part of the Mitel family.”

Katie Kregel, VICE PRESIDENT GLOBAL CORPORATE MARKETING, Mitel Corp

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MY SERVICES

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CONF ERENCE MC, VIRT UAL &
HYBRID EVENT HOST PACKAGE

 Manage the flow of the event to ensure engagement
and energy are maintained throughout

 To serve as the thread that ties together all the main
stage presenters and content

 Maximise audience engagement
 Ensure the smooth running of all the sessions in terms

of timing
 Support speakers and other session contributors
 Run polls, coordinate discussions, Q&A management

and interviews
 Support the event objectives with active learning tools

and energisers
 Webcasting Studio: Green Screen; HD Webcam; Lighting;

Teleprompter/Studio Camera option

FEES FROM £150 P/H INCLUDE:
 Facilitation of the event  
 Rehearsals
 Planning, Research, Meeting Design
 Script Preparation
 Speaker Briefings and Support

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COMMUNICAT ION
T RAINING PACKAGE

Senior leaders at events often tell me they’d love to have
had the opportunity to refresh important communication
skills before their presentations and keynotes.
Sometimes the events team might have reservations about
suggesting it to their contributors, but it can make all the
difference in the world between a good presentation and
a really memorable one.

HERE’S WHAT I CAN HELP WITH:
 Q&A Practice and Feedback
 Delivering Keynotes with Impact
 Audience Rapport and Control
 Vocal Expression, Energy and Body Language
 Confidence on Camera
 Telling Your Story to the Media

Fees vary according to requirements.

From £150 PH for virtual sessions
Half day in person (1–2 attendees) £1,000
Full day in person (4+ attendees)
with camera person £2,500

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CLIENT CASE STUDY

BIG DATA LONDON

JOB: Emcee at Big Data LDN – the UK’s largest Data & Analytics Conference and Exhibition held at Olympia, Kensington.

OBJECTIVE: Hosting and moderating the Hybrid Theatre at this massive event; deftly leading and co-ordinating all the speakers
and expert panel talks, ensuring the links are seamlessly delivered both for those viewing online, and those attending
in person; ensuring every session is top notch and audiences continuously engaged, stimulated and entertained.

D U R AT I O N : 2 days.

AUDIENCE SIZE: 10,000 attendees including exhibitors.

SCOPE: Keeping the energy high and managing the perfect balance on stage with the complex hybrid technologies between
ROLE: the in-person audience (where attendees are also visiting the 200+ exhibition stands), and virtual attendees watching
TECH: via livestream.

Studio based Emcee. Responsible for leading and co-ordinating all the key activities across the two days, including
liaising with external production and design teams.

A challenging conference environment where the stage is in the middle of a huge, busy and noisy exhibition centre.
To communicate effectively in the space between the stage and tech team at the back of the room, the Host and
in-person speakers are all linked through microphones and headsets.

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CLIENT CASE STUDY

BIG DATA LONDON

DETAILED ROLE: This was a complex brief involving pre event liaison with event organisers, meeting and briefing keynote speakers, and preparing
detailed scripts to seamlessly link each session on the day.

During the event, I worked closely with the production team, balancing the needs of speakers in multiple locations with the live
in-theatre audience and attendees watching digitally from around the world. Responsible for greeting and introducing the contributor,
running polling via software platforms and moderating Q&As.

Dealt calmly and professionally with the inevitable glitches: whether challenges with connectivity and tech delays, to nervous
external speakers, I used humour and charm to ensure all audiences were kept highly engaged, captivated and remained in their
seats during the sessions.

THE IMPACT: “Clare is not only a pleasure to work with, but she did an exceptional job for us! Having not run an in-person event
for almost two years, we were particularly grateful for how calmly and impressively she delivered the complex brief.”

Andy Steed, EDITORIAL & CONTENT DIRECTOR BIG DATA LDN, Reed Exhibitions

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BIO

MEET CLARE

After my degree in English Literature and Modern History at the University
of Liverpool, I completed a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism and
have had a wide-ranging 20+ year career as a newsreader, presenter, reporter,
producer and editor across national and local BBC and commercial radio
stations, ITN and the British Forces Broadcasting Service.

I then presented corporate business programmes for private organisations
and set up my own company as a professional Event Host and communications
trainer in 2018. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a wide
variety of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies including Mitel, KPMG, PwC,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, and Accenture, as well as verticals including
telecommunications, technology, pharmaceuticals, logistics, FinTech, Cybersecurity,
HR and Higher Education.

I’ve also carried out communication skills training for numerous multi-national
corporations including AstraZeneca, Perkin Elmer, Workplace for Facebook,
Skanska, Fujitsu as well as a number of charities.

I’m British, and when I’m not travelling for work, I host virtual events and
run communications training sessions from my home studio in Bristol, UK.

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GET IN TOUCH

If you’re planning to organise a large or
high profile event or a complex conference
and would like to work with a hugely
experienced corporate Event Host who
brings the WOW factor, is expert at
using hybrid technologies, deftly manages
speakers, keynotes and panel sessions,
and delivers an utterly unforgettable
experience, please get in touch:

[email protected]

Clare Forestier

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Credentials Brochure

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