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About Claire Bahn Group

Personal branding and strategic visibility for executives, founders, and thought leaders who want to become the recognized authority in their industry.

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About Claire Bahn Group

The Claire Bahn Group is a personal branding and strategic visibility agency built for executives, founders, thought leaders, and high-performing individuals who want to become the recognized authority in their industry.

We operate much more like a talent agency than a marketing service, which gives our clients a level of strategy, representation, and execution that is highly selective and deeply personalized.

Our philosophy is simple: personal branding is no longer optional. Research shows that 45% of a company’s reputation and 44% of its market value are directly attributable to the CEO’s reputation. Strong executive visibility is now a business driver, impacting investor confidence, talent recruitment, media influence, and long-term growth.

We help leaders harness that power through an omnichannel approach that blends thought leadership, PR, social media, video, and strategic storytelling into one cohesive engine.

Our Principals

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Claire Bahn

Co-founder and Ceo

Claire Bahn is a serial entrepreneur, CEO, and Founder of Claire Bahn Group (CBG), a leading strategic marketing communications and branding agency. CBG specializes in public relations, strategic communications, personal branding, executive branding, reputation management, social media management, video production, podcast production, and promotion.

With over 17 years of industry experience, Claire is dedicated to helping businesses, high-achieving CEOs, executives, investors, and founders amplify their authority and influence. Her goal is to help them accelerate business growth, gain recognition, and increase opportunities. As an influencer with over 100,000 social media followers, Claire emphasizes the importance of building a robust personal and business brand to attract opportunities and enhance visibility.

Claire’s mission is to help others in leveraging their brands to develop the authority, influence, and trust needed to achieve their career and life goals. Her expertise has been acknowledged by prominent publications such as Entrepreneur, Forbes, and MarketWatch, and she has been featured on “This Week in Startups” with Jason Calacanis. Recently, Claire was recognized as one of the Top 10 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs to Know About.

Claire holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Her extensive experience and passion for personal branding have made her a sought-after expert in the field. Based in Los Angeles, Claire continues to empower individuals to create, maintain, and protect their personal brands, helping them achieve the authority, influence, and trust they need to succeed.

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Gordon Gooch

Co-Founder and COO

Gordon Gooch, COO of Claire Bahn Group, is a marketing executive specializing in Strategic Digital Marketing and Public Relations Strategies. Masterminding operational and marketing success for organizations from start-ups to Fortune 500s, Gordon leverages his unique track record, industry contacts, and expertise to deliver solid results across business strategy, operations performance, digital marketing, and cross-functional team leadership.

Gordon’s expertise includes lead generation and developing MQLs for clients. He is a leading expert in SEO, programmatic advertising, PPC, social media, and influencer marketing. He specializes in implementing multifaceted marketing programs to maximize exposure, combining traditional SEO best practices, social media, and branding to dramatically increase visibility, lead generation, and trust.

Gordon’s success is driven by his ability to build highly effective operational strategies that drive gains in market share, distribution, revenue, and growth. As an engaging strategic business management leader, he possesses a winning blend of sales, brand management, team leadership, strategic and communications acumen. He naturally builds genuine connections with people at all levels, inspiring teams to produce exemplary results through hands-on involvement and cross-functional delegation.

His specialties include leadership, revenue growth, budget management, market penetration, digital marketing, SEO, SEM, PPC, social media, e-commerce, business development, team leadership, project management, and product development.

Our Expertise

What We Do and What We're Known For

We specialize in creating and managing personal brands for CEOs and senior executives, as well as elite entrepreneurs, first-time authors, high-achieving women leaders, and families looking to elevate their student-athletes’ NIL visibility.

Our Signature Presence Program and Prestige Presence Program are comprehensive, done-for- you engagements designed to build authority quickly and sustainably across all digital channels. These programs include brand strategy, SEO-driven content, professional photography, short- form and long-form video, social media management, PR outreach, media training, and website development.

What makes us different is our audience-first methodology. Instead of building aspirational or self-promotional brands, we position each client as a solution to their audience’s most important challenges.

This approach drives faster and more meaningful growth, because people follow leaders who help them—not leaders who talk about themselves.

Our Difference

What Sets Us Apart

First, we are selective. Claire personally approves every client we represent. When we agree to represent a client, it’s because we know we can shape their narrative, expand their market visibility, and strategically position them in conversations that matter.

Second, our internal structure mirrors a top-tier entertainment agency. Each client receives a full team—ghostwriters, researchers, PR specialists, designers, social media managers, and video producers—working together in a synchronized system that accelerates digital authority from multiple angles at once.

Third, our results are measurable. We focus heavily on ROI-driven metrics: audience reach, impressions, authority keywords, earned media, and inbound opportunities. This is not vanity branding; it is strategic brand architecture with business impact at its core.

Our Results

What We're Most Proud Of

Jean-Baptiste: Drove 417,933% growth in social reach and a 1,481% increase in organic website traffic. This enhanced global visibility secured tier-one media (Fortune, Newsweek, U.S. News) and led to major board nominations, including consideration at a publicly traded investment firm.
James: Generated over 5,700% growth in website impressions within a highly technical B2B manufacturing niche. By leveraging structured SEO and content syndication, he dramatically increased inbound discoverability without relying on paid acquisition.
Jonathan: Accelerated brand visibility to become a recurring cast member on Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch.” Expanding his digital footprint strengthened his positioning within the angel/VC ecosystem and significantly elevated his deal flow visibility.
Tiffany: Expanded multi-platform reach by over 1,000%, cementing her executive credibility in Fortune 100 environments. Consistent thought leadership and strategic PR directly increased demand for her in advisory and board-level conversations.
Kim: Elevated her authority across both corporate and philanthropic sectors through coordinated PR and brand positioning. This strategy directly resulted in expanded speaking opportunities, higher audience engagement, and measurable multi-channel digital growth.

Across Our Portfolio

Common Outcomes Include

Multi-thousand percent increases in reach, impressions, and visibility
Triple- and quadruple-digit growth in website traffic
Placement in Tier 1 media outlets including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal
Recurring podcast and broadcast features in top-ranked industry platforms
Conversion of visibility into board nominations, investment conversations, capital raises, consulting engagements, and paid speaking opportunities

These outcomes are not vanity metrics. They reflect strategic authority expansion. Increased reach improves discoverability. Increased traffic drives inbound opportunity. Earned media enhances credibility. Audience growth compounds influence.
In executive branding, visibility is not the end goal. It is the leverage point. When authority compounds, opportunity follows.

Our Mission

What You Should Know

Our brand is built on the belief that visibility is a form of power. When leaders step forward with clarity and authority, opportunities naturally flow to them—investors, clients, press, partnerships, and speaking invitations.

Personal branding is not self-promotion; it is a strategic asset that can transform careers and companies. The data overwhelmingly supports this: executives with strong personal brands drive better corporate performance, attract talent, and build public trust.

Whether someone is a CEO looking to elevate their influence, a founder preparing for a capital raise, an author launching a book, or a senior executive ready to step onto a bigger stage, our mission is the same: to ensure they are remembered, not just noticed.

If your readers want to understand the true ROI of elevating their presence, it’s this: when people trust the person, they trust the company. And when they trust the company, everything grows.

“Visibility is the currency of opportunity for 2026 and beyond.”