bio
I’m 48. I was expected to become an actor.
Everyone in my family acts and, if I’d carried on the tradition, I would have been the 6th generation to tread the boards. But media and communications training is my calling.
Actors are colourful characters, which might explain why my parents and grandparents have 12 marriages between them.
Pathetically, I have only one. I’ve been married to the same gorgeous lady for 22 years and I have 3 beautiful children.
It’s disgustingly normal.
I don’t do divorce and I don’t do drugs. Unlike my grandmother who, in her 30s, was involved in a cocaine scandal with the songwriter, Ivor Novello.
And my wife and I are around the same age. All Pélissier marriages have a least a 15-year age gap. But my grandmother went a step further making sure that her 4th husband was younger than my father.
My mother’s first husband was 30 years her senior. That was to Sir John Gielgud’s brother, Val.
Since a very young age, I have met and been surrounded by very famous people. As a little boy, I met Charlie Chaplin and, for the early part of my career, I worked with the great and the good in the film industry.
For a number of years, I worked for John Cleese’s company, Video Arts, producing business management training videos featuring Hugh Laurie and Dawn French.
People always ask me what he’s like? Well, he’s the sort of man who asks you for a de-caffeinated cappuccino when you are in the middle of nowhere and there’s isn’t a bat in hells chance of finding one…
Today, I specialise in helping companies to communicate better.
I design and deliver Training Courses that specialise in teaching about different aspects of digital communication
- writing for the web so that you get your message across
- social media as a strategic tool
- email as part of marketing and customer relationship management
- creative blogging for businesses and new writers
- media-rich web content (video & audio) production
I enjoy standing in front of a group of people and seeing their enthusiasm and ability grow over a couple of days.
Perhaps, that’s the acting gene kicking in…?
My training draws on 24 years of working in media and communications and projects with BT, National Association of Pension Fund, Lands’ End, MITIE, Vente Privée, Blizzard Entertainment, Strutt & Parker and the BBC. I also spend a good deal of time running training courses for the Communication Teams at the European Commission – in the hope that one day someone will understand what they write.
As Europe is part of my children’s future, it’s important they do.
And I write.
I have a blog called Pélixir that regularly publishes articles on digital communication tips, techniques and strategies
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I confess that the word Pélixir is not my own.
My grandfather used it in one of his marketing posters in 1910. I think it’s the only thing I inherited from him.
But it teaches a useful marketing lesson. Always feel free to swipe and steal what others do, especially if it works.
I also publish eBooks. I’m the co-founder of MoJo Guides, digital books about people, places and things that busy people on the move want to read on their Kindle or iPhone. Try one.
Your next step
If you are serious about how you communicate digitally, I think you should contact me. I would love to hear about your business and to discuss ways of helping you communicate better.
Give me a call on 07730 920 813 or drop me a line at joe@joepelissier.co.uk.
Before you do, you may want to sign-up to receive Pélixir?
You will find what I send helpful and thought provoking.
And I can promise, you won’t be biltzed with mindless marketing promotions promising to make you rich in 30 days.
Post Script
When I am not doing any of the above, you will find me walking in the Cotswold Hills with my two border terriers, Tilly and Truffle.
Or, doing things with my 10-year old son Milo and his 2 teenage sisters, Sophie and Freya.
