Before: The answer that plays it safe
“I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I can spend too long polishing.”
The humblebrag. It dodges the question and names no real gap.
Presence turns years of decisions into answers that hold up in the room. Free, private, runs in your browser.
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Presence is a working tool, not a course. You bring real material: decisions you made, teams you rebuilt, calls you got wrong. It walks each one into a four-beat answer (Frame, Risks, Approach, Story) across the four things senior panels actually probe: people, execution, strategy and change, judgment and character. Along the way it assembles a Leadership Portrait, a one-page read of how you lead, drawn from your own evidence. It runs entirely in your browser. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy.
Built by Ray Frohlich: twenty years of hiring decisions and search committees, now building for the other side of the table.
“What’s your greatest weakness?”
“I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I can spend too long polishing.”
The humblebrag. It dodges the question and names no real gap.
“I delegate too late. I used to keep complex work in my own hands. Now I hand it off early and review at checkpoints, and my last two hires grew faster for it.”
A real weakness, paired with the system that now contains it. The gap becomes evidence of judgment.
A before and after fixes a single story. The Leadership Portrait reads the pattern across all of them. See a sample Portrait →
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You are preparing before anyone at your company or on your board knows you are looking elsewhere. Presence is built so that stays true.
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No Presence database of your preparation, and no account.
If you move it, you move it encrypted.
The relay holds it for at most 15 minutes, then deletes it. Only you hold the key.
Yours to export or erase.
Anytime, all rendered on your own device.
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Ray has spent 25 years in technology strategy and governance for research libraries and universities, a field where protecting people’s intellectual work is a professional ethic, not a feature.