My job is all about helping business event organisers deliver sensational and memorable experiences by becoming their charismatic and skilled emcee.
If you’d like to have your event expertly hosted by an energetic, and professional event host with great credentials and experience, who is also relatable, fun to work with, and a real team player, I can help.
I’m a professional business host who has spent 20+ years learning how to keep all kinds of audiences happy. I bring my warm friendly and unflappable style and years of experience as a broadcast journalist and business event moderator to ensure your audience feels welcomed, appreciated, and taken care of.
Working with me gives your events the wow factor and guarantees a professional, experienced, and safe pair of hands-on stage. I ensure your audience is well looked after, engaged, and entertained.
Attendee Experience is vital to me. My role makes you look good to audience and prospects and gives kudos to the event organisers.
I work to makes the event appear smooth and seamless and bring the room alive by maintaining energy, humour and engagement. I deftly manage panel discussions and fireside chats ensuring they perfectly paced and compelling. And I work with your presenters to deliver expert speeches.
I’ve hosted in person, virtual and hybrid business events on a huge variety of subjects and industries.
I’d love to partner with you to make sure your attendees are really wowed by your event, so message me today or email me hello@clareforestier.com
With over 30 years of experience in the events industry, John understands the needs of membership organisations deeply and intrinsically. After spending the first 14 years of his career as a PCO, he founded Shocklogic in 1997, where today he leads an international team to deliver cutting edge event management technology. John has a PhD in Quantum Physics from MIT and has previously been named one of the “Top 100 Movers & Shakers in Events” by Eventbrite. In 2020, he was also listed as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the Event Industry” and one of the “Top 50 Virtual Meetings & Events Innovators” by Eventex.
Winner of Business Spirit award. Business owner award in 2008. 2011 voted to the top 100 women in eCommerce. IAHMP education award in 2009. Meeting Industry Mentor for 3 universities namely in Russia, USA and UK. Board Member of New World Leaders Association, Board Member of Labor er Dignitas, Board Member of WECAI, President of APPEN, and Member of Advisory Board of Meetings Show UK. Winner of the WE Magazine USA award for Global Marketing in 2013.
I run communities for marketers and help marketers connect better with customers and prospects.
With a corporate background in events & experiential marketing, I'm obsessed with applying modern marketing principles to community and events and ensuring all events have Return on Emotion.
I'm one of the creators of the Spontaneous Think Tank™ and have led event marketing strategy and teams at Fortune 50 companies and love to consult on how to optimize events within a broader marketing program. I'm an Event Marketer B2B Dream Team nominee and a Smart Meetings Entrepreneur of the Year.
Oh, and I wrote some books! I'm the lead author of "The Age of Conversation Cookbook: How we created a virtual event in 42 days during a pandemic," as well as "Eyebrows Up!: A guide to engaging with clients, guests, and colleagues," available on Amazon Kindle.
All of this allows me to help people connect more authentically and form better business and personal relationships. Did we just become best friends?
On a mission to make the world a better place together 🌐
I started at an event company, and then the pandemic hit. After helping them pivot to virtual, I realized more event organizers could use my help. Virtual Positive was a direct result of this. Eventually, I ran into my own time limitations and started looking for an efficient way to help more people within the event industry.
I'm currently developing a tool called Event Mender that takes out all the guesswork for event organizers. This tool will be a fully customizable one-stop shop for organizing wildly successful and profitable events. From speaker acquisition and marketing to AV services and virtual platforms in one central place.
Are you working in the event industry and wondering how we can collaborate?
Feel free to send me a message. I'm here to connect!
