We build personal brands for Black/Diverse Founders and CEOs 🗣 | CEO & Founder of OSSAI

I’m Phil, the lad behind the scenes helping people like Jake Humphrey, Spencer Matthews, Mary Earps and Ferne McCann show up online in a way that actually sounds like them.

I’ve spent more all-nighters than I care to admit helping founders and public figures build personal brands that turn heads, start conversations, and lead to real opportunities.

Most of my work is being a translator: pulling the real insight out of someone’s head, shaping it into content, and building a system that keeps it consistent.

That means:

clarifying your message and positioning

turning your lived experience into posts people want to read and share

building a simple content engine you can actually stick to

I’m also funnelling everything we’ve learned at OSSAI into Pesora, an autonomous personal-branding tool built to give more people access to proven strategy without the full agency price tag.

If you’re a founder, CEO or creator with a spicy brain and a head full of ideas, but you’re struggling to get it out consistently, drop me a message. ✌🏿

Phil Ossai

Yesterday marked 4 years of OSSAI 🥳

I took this photo last night at Christina Taylor’s office while my little one was in dance upstairs at The ASH Company and it hit me... wow I've been in business for nearly half a decade. 

I'm old 😅 but equally I feel like I started yesterday.

I still remember 4th March 2022... full of naivety. Pre-Chat GPT days. Back before the AI slop. 

A LOT has changed since then... but a lot hasn't.

Here are 4 lessons that have stood the test of time.

1 - Human psychology doesn't change: curiosity, negative bias is a powerful vehicle to capture one's attention.

2 - Quality > quantity of followers. Don't get attention mixed up with intention. You can get leads at 500 followers, and nothing at 500,000 followers.

3 - On the other hand, if you want community growth, cross-pollinate your audience with related creators/founders. Collab carousels, collab Vids/TikToks/Reels... they are SO powerful.

4 - The science of social media growth and virality is: A/B testing every element of a piece of content, and with enough variants, the data will tell you exactly what you need to do to grow. It's not rocket science... but it is a lot of effort.

Thank you to all those who supported and believed in the vision before it was a reality. 

Amy Stephenson-Yankuba Aaron Burns Milimo Banji Mary Earps MBE Ellis Bennett FCCA Yafet Semere Jade Beard-Stevens Jim Meadows Indiana Julian Keenan Bettany Lyle Yorks Jake Humphrey Jane Hunt Robyn Liddell Claire Richards Nazia Haque Netta Jenkins sorry if I forgot to tag anyone!

Andrew Hulbert FIWFM thanks for the inspo on this!

Personal Branding for CEOs, Founders and Talent Brands via OSSAI Agency & Pesora AI

Your personal brand is your insurance policy.

I started OSSAI when I was in my very early 20s.

The fact that I’m able to sit in rooms with people who have scaled seven and eight figure companies, have 10 and 100s millions in the bank, while still in my 20s…

Plus I have access while their guard is down, while they’re vulnerable, while they’re open to hearing new ideas, and to have them trust my expertise, is an anomaly that I’m very aware of and very grateful for. 

I don’t say that to brag.

I say it to make this point:

The only way I was able to get into those rooms was because of the insurance policy I’d been slowly contributing to day in, day out, week by week, month by month, which is my personal brand.

My reputation tends to do a lot of talking.

I recently had a massive community reach out to me to do workshops for them.

The same goes for another speaking gig across borders.

That’s why I believe your personal brand opens doors, but also protects you when things don’t go so well.

If you’re let go.

If you’re struggling.

If things are tough.

I’ve had many bailouts from people in my network that I grew through LinkedIn, through Instagram, through TikTok, who supported me during tough times in the agency as a result of us meeting online.

If I hadn’t posted that content, I probably wouldn’t be where I am.

So yeah, your personal brand is your insurance policy.

🤞🏿

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Back from a London day trip to meet the man of the hour Jake Humphrey

If you were a fly on the wall, here's what you would've heard:

🗣️ "Business growth is expensive: Financially, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Consistency growth beats intensity any day of the week."

🗣️ "The view at the top of the mountain is the same as the bottom of the mountain: Another set of peaks on the horizon. There's always another goal so learn to detach your joy from the outcome and place it in the process."

A few things it got me thinking...

There's a unique energy being around non-Londoners. People who are supposedly disadvantaged when they don't live in the capital. The drive is built differently when opportunity isn't always on your doorstep.

My generation places such an importance on stupid stuff: revenue rather than profit, the badge of your car rather than character... and when you hear successful people speak the ego in you can think: 'it's easy for you to say now you've achieved it'.

But the challenge I'm setting myself is to actually try and adopt a wiser mindset this year.

I really shouldn't upgrade my car, or my living expenses... 
I need to keep my head down and act like it's nil-nil
I need to enjoy the journey more because this is the real game I'm playing now, not pre-season.

Anyway... back to work.

Don't get attention mixed up with intention.

The loudest personal brands don't always make the best content.

The founders with the largest followers don't always have the best businesses.

I have a United Fan page with 300k IG followers and a TikTok of 175k followers.

My '17k' LinkedIn following has 'made me more money' than that 475k following ever has.

A 300w light bulb can light up a room

A 300w laser can cut through steel.

Same energy, different focus.

Happy new month everyone 🚀

The Consistency blueprint: My 90-day goal-setting journal from the 🐐 Aaron Burns

What’s common knowledge to you…

… is a game changer to someone else. 

You’re sitting on a goldmine of insights, experiences and lessons. 

All you’re missing is the framework to structure your thoughts. 

💪🏿

I grow brands on Insta, TikTok + Pinterest 📈 reaching over 67 MILLION impressions every MONTH for my clients 🔥 Track Record of Scaling Brands on Social | Not just your average marketer 💅

I turn ur business Insta + Pinterest into actual money

(corporate marketers hate to see me coming 💅)

I've helped multiple brands hit 7 figures without spending a penny on ads, generated over 1B+ organic impressions, and built full stack marketing funnels for over 100 brands that directly link to revenue 

it's 2026, we want MONEY from our marketing not impressions bestie!!

two ways to work with me:

💌 full social media management

content strategy, creation, posting, funnels - the whole shabang handled.

bc viral videos mean nothing if your funnel is leaking everywhere.

💰fractional CMO (application only) - CURRENTLY FULLY BOOKED

Think systems, automations, full-stack funnels, team management, metric tracking, growth charts. the whole backend built for ROI. I build the foundation so your marketing runs a compounding profit - not just technically 'managed'

(ps - I only work with brands looking to build solid foundations and boost cash flow, not those looking for viral videos and quick wins)

oh and btw if you don't hit the growth metrics we agree on?

you get your money back. simple as that 🤷‍♀️

(most agencies won't even tell you their results. I guarantee mine cos I'm that good)

8 years in. learnt most of it the hard way so you don't have to x

Danielle Theobald 🍪

surprise I made a person??

41 weeks of LinkedIn content and not ONE of you noticed

my best marketing campaign yet tbh  10 months in development
zero investor funding
100% organic growth

(his ROI is mass chaos and no sleep but I'm still obsessed with him??)

Danielle Theobald

Photo 1: I did everything LinkedIn told me to

Photo 2: I did the opposite

In 2023 I was living my 'best life' according to social media:

- 7 fig business (yes, really)
- going gym 5 times a week
- working about 10-12 hours a day

all whilst travelling the world

I thought I was happy. I was in this 'dream life' so many people wanted, right?

WRONGGGG!

I was overweight. Unhappy. Jumping between toxic relationships. A shell of myself - I literally didn't even realise it 

It took me many (many) breakdowns to realise what actually mattered to me

Freedom. Community. Love. Wellness.

and without even intending to or focusing on it I:

lost 18kg
found God (hey bestie!)
got literally 10x more take home income
met my husband

I got everything I wanted, could ever dream of, and more 🥹

I was waking up at 10am, working 4 hours a day, reduced gym to 1-2 times per week - everything that apparently makes you 'lazy'

This is legit not some LinkedIn hook, those of you who know me in real life know this was my reality 😭

for a bunch of 'smart' and 'top 1% performers' on this app, we sure are dumb af

please please PLEASE start writing your own playbook

as a collective we need to stop following blueprints, whether it be from a 'guru', a celebrity, or God forbid a ChatGPT output 🥲

I WANT 2026 TO BE THE YEAR YOU START REWRITING YOUR OWN STORY!!!

LET IT EXCITE YOU!

YES I'M SHOUTING!!!!!!!!

the amount of competition, burnout and comparison I see on this app every. single. day. genuinely saddens me

I'll leave you with Mark 8:36 from the Bible - and religious or not I want you to sit with it for a few days:

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

It’s hard because you’re inexperienced, not incapable 

Keep going bestie 🕺🏼

(and whilst you’re at it, stop letting social media scare you into comparison - it’ll steal all good fruits from you)

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