Personal brand coaching

Build the reputation that enters the room before you do.

Personal brand coaching for US executives and B2B founders. One sentence, every room, real receipts.

Author of Fail To Brand Plan To Fail · Founder, Serio Design FX · Fractional CDO

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The reputation gap

They decide before you speak.

Buyers, investors and hires meet your reputation first. If it lags your work, the first impression is the wrong one.

01

Profiles that disagree

LinkedIn says one thing, your bio another, your intro a third. The market cannot tell what you are for.

02

No sentence people repeat

When you leave the room, nobody can pass you on in one line. So they do not.

03

Proof buried where nobody looks

Your best results live in old decks and DMs. Skeptics never find them.

What changes

What you walk away with.

See how coaching works

One sentence people repeat

A line that passes the dinner test and travels without you.

Every profile aligned

One name, one spine across LinkedIn, X, your site and every bio.

Proof skeptics can touch

A museum of receipts, placed where the doubters look.

A weekly loop you can keep

A rhythm you run alone, without an agency retainer.

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The method

Twelve steps. Thirty days. One spine.

The system behind the book, grouped into four phases.

See How Coaching Works
See

See yourself the way the market does. Name the wound you keep walking into.

Say

Find the one sentence people repeat. Pass the dinner test. Say who you are not for.

Prove

Build a small museum of receipts. Put proof where skeptics can touch it. Let a receipt be the hero.

Show up

Align every room: one name, one spine. Apply one sentence to three stories. Say it out loud, on camera. Install a weekly loop.

Receipts, not adjectives

Proof first. Claims never.

Real clients, shared with their permission. Every receipt comes from a public review.

See the Proof
Case 01Rated 5.0
Jeroen Bollijt

Jeroen Bollijt

Founder, Australia

"I would re-engage Charles in a heartbeat!"

Client type
Founder after an exit (sold his company to Salesforce), Australia.
Starting point
Needed to rebrand his personal brand after the sale.
What we changed
Defined his personal brand compass and laid out a framework for how he shows up.
Receipt / outcome
"In one word 'fantastic'." Rated 5.0 and endorsed as Collaborative.
Client review, Feb to May 2023
Case 02Google 5.0
Ndi Edwin Chia

Ndi Edwin Chia

Creator, Breezers TV and Kumusta TV

"Charles gave me a step by step tutorial on what tools to use on my channels and how to use AI to improve my channels."

Client type
YouTube creator behind Breezers TV and Kumusta TV, who also runs Breezers Cafe.
Starting point
His Breezers TV YouTube channel had stalled.
What we changed
A consultation that pointed him in the right direction: a step by step plan for which tools to use on his channels and how to use AI to improve them.
Receipt / outcome
"I got instant results and I am grateful." Rated 5 stars on Google.
Google review, Aug 2026
Case 03Google 5.0

Kenneth Ginlack Sr.

Personal brand and political campaign

"SERIO Design FX was a God-send for my political campaign and brand."

Client type
MBA graduate launching his personal brand and a political campaign.
Starting point
Wanted to launch his personal brand after earning his MBA.
What we changed
He took my personal branding course, and SERIO Design FX built the message and image for his brand and political campaign.
Receipt / outcome
Landed a CEO position at Serenity Inns. "What an outstanding job on delivering the message and image needed to run my brand."
Google review, Mar 2018
Client reviews

What clients say.

5.0 on Google from 18 reviews
★★★★★

"SERIO Design FX was a God-send for my political campaign and brand. What an outstanding job on delivering the message and image needed to run my brand."

Kenneth Ginlack Sr.

Political campaign and brand · Google review

★★★★★

"After our 45-minute discovery session, he helped us understand as an organization how to move our business forward using the SERIO Design FX platform and coaching model. We were completely blown away by the level of knowledge, insight, and inspiration shared."

Fmj Services Malik

Fmj Services · Google review

★★★★★

"I am blown away with the results from Serio Design FX helping me with branding for my company. An in-depth consultation that makes me feel assured that I have made the right decision."

Angelique Janey

Company branding · Google review

Built, not claimed

The tool I built for my own weekly loop.

Serio IQ reads a live X stream, filters out the noise and hands you a three-part canvas. You decide what to say. You post it yourself.

The Serio IQ story
1. Your live X stream
Noise drops out. Signal stays.
Filter›
2. Your canvas
01

What happened

The moment in your market, stated plainly in two or three sentences, with the posts it came from.

[Example: live topic pulled from the stream]

Sourced from your stream
02

The question only you can answer

The one question your experience qualifies you to answer, that nobody else in the conversation can.

[Example question for this founder]

Your angle
03

What everyone else is missing

The gap in the conversation. Where your post adds something instead of repeating it.

[Example missing point]

Your edge
3. You write it and post it yourself. Your voice, your name. Serio IQ never posts for you.14-day free trial

Illustrative mock of the Serio IQ canvas. Example content is placeholder, not real output. [Swap in a real canvas screenshot with permission]

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About

A one-person company with a bridge crew.

I wrote Fail To Brand Plan To Fail, founded Serio Design FX and work as a fractional CDO for B2B founders. I run my company with an AI bridge crew and teach in live sessions.

Free from the book

Not ready to apply? Start with the 12-Step Plan.

The twelve steps from Fail To Brand Plan To Fail, as a plan you can run this month. Sent by email.

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Next step

Let's build the reputation that gets there first.

Tell me where you are headed. If it is a fit, we book a strategy call.