Executive Bios Editing and Proofreading Services

The same three hundred words go on the website, in the conference programme, in the pitch deck and in the announcement of a funding round. In one of those places the reader is deciding whether to attend a session; in another they are deciding whether to trust somebody with fourteen million pounds. One paragraph cannot do both, and the version that tries is the one that says "seasoned leader with a proven track record".

We edit executive and professional bios — website and leadership page profiles, conference and speaker biographies, board and non-executive appointment profiles, investor and pitch documents, award and media biographies, internal announcements, and the short forms required for panels and podcast introductions. Our editors work on a paragraph that has to do a different job in each place it appears.

The bio's fit to one specific occasion is what makes it work, and its failure is a single all-purpose paragraph doing none of its jobs. A bio is not a summary of a career; it is an argument for one decision. We work through these so each version is written for the reader's actual decision — attend, invest, appoint, believe — and the claims are selected accordingly, since the appointment reader wants governance and sector years while the conference reader wants a reason to sit down; so at least two verifiable numbers appear, because scale is what makes seniority credible and "led significant growth" is refused by everybody; so the numbers are the ones that stand up — revenue, headcount, funds raised, markets entered, years in the sector — rather than the flattering-but-unfalsifiable ones; so what the person actually did is separated from what happened while they were there, given that a reader who has seen this trick performs the discount automatically; so three lengths are prepared — roughly 40, 100 and 250 words — and each is written rather than cut down, as a truncated bio reads as a mistake; so the third-person voice is consistent and the name is used once; so anything current is dated so it does not silently expire; and so one human detail survives, because a bio with none is forgettable and a bio with three is a personal essay. Bios written this way get used unedited.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including unannounced appointments, financial information and material under embargo. We are editors rather than communications advisers or recruiters, and we offer no view on any career, appointment or claim. What we can do is write the version for the room it is going into.