“Thank you for sharing your time, energy, and expertise with our educators and school leaders during the Educating Girls Symposium. You provided much food for thought and brought a fresh perspective around everything from strategic planning to reputation building.”
“At the workshop today, the new parts for me were the Relative SWOT and making sure you consider the marketability within the plan. It was very informative. Thank you Stephen!”
“Thank you so much for coming to speak at our conference Dr Holmes! Your presentation was truly excellent, and many of our guests found your session inspiring, informative, and thought-provoking.”
“The program covered a range of topics that were very relevant to my role as an admissions officer in an international school, and I particularly appreciated the strategies for creating compelling content and engaging with students and parents through social media. I feel much more equipped to showcase our school to prospective families and build relationships with them through various channels.”
“Dr Stephen Holmes presented a hugely impressive data-driven workshop at the ICGS conference in Cleveland Ohio in June, attended by heads of school and marketing managers from girls’ schools from the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. His messages were of absolute and vital relevance across these educational jurisdictions. Stephen’s years of professional and unique practice as regards placing reputation in a highly nuanced framework of marketing were generously shared in a compelling yet compressed delivery of radical marketing and reputational strategy. He rightly had many of queuing to engage him for further bespoke work in our schools.”
“I was really impressed with your approach for schools today in your presentation at the International Coalition of Girls’ School (ICGS) Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. The lens you are using to test strategic goals for managing the reputation of the school has real value for schools. At our School, we have worked hard on working out our “why” as a school and have a firm commitment to the vision for the school. Your work provides an approach to clarify how the goals and actions of the strategic plan can work towards the reputation it is seeking for the school. Brilliant.”
“Stephen, I really appreciated your session; reputation management and crisis communications and found this session particularly helpful. I’ll be leaning on the information you shared. Thanks for being at the ICGS Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.”
“Dr Stephen Holmes facilitated at our Strategic Planning workshop in August 2023, presenting to our Board sub-committee and the Senior Leadership Team. His messages came across clearly and were very relevant and topical to our current needs of Strategic Direction and Priorities. Stephen came with an impressive reputation from attendees at the ICGS conference in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in June and certainly delivered.”
“Thank you for an insightful three days of professional learning; I have been challenged and am looking forward to some robust conversations with our College leaders as we shape the future of our College.”
“I first met Dr Stephen Holmes in the US – he is the first and only person I’ve encountered who has a formula for defining, monetising and commoditising reputation; it’s something every school/college should understand.”
