01 — MODERATE
Move ideas forward
Contributions become clearer, and perspectives connect without losing focus.
A professional moderator serving your conversations
Moving ideas forward. Bringing out the best in experts. Giving dialogue momentum.
Patrick JAY moderates and facilitates your panel discussions, debates, conferences and discussion sessions, in French and English, in France and internationally.
A bridge between your experts and audiences
A successful panel discussion gives conversation its shape.
Ideas that build on one another, experiences that shed light on each other, and perspectives that deepen the audience’s understanding.
Patrick JAY prepares and leads these conversations with one clear aim: enabling everyone to contribute meaningfully, without losing focus or allowing one speaker to dominate the others.
He listens, prompts, reframes, clarifies and connects the threads of a conversation; when needed, he brings it back on track with tact. His role is to reveal the value of each contribution without ever distorting it.
He is not there to take the spotlight. He is there to make yours succeed.
40 years
of hands-on communication experience
FR · EN
bilingual, intercultural hosting
360°
preparation, moderation, facilitation and interviews
Expertise dedicated to your event
Clarity, momentum and purpose.
An experienced communications professional, journalist and event host, Patrick JAY creates the conditions for conversations that are clear, engaging and useful.
02 — FACILITATE
Bring out the best in experts
Each contribution finds its right place, benefiting the speakers, their messages and the organisation.
03 — HOST
Serve the audience
The audience understands, follows and remembers the essentials, thanks to precise, accessible and attentive direction.
Long before the stage
Thorough preparation for a seamless conversation on the day.
The quality of moderation is decided well before anyone takes the stage.
In advance, Patrick JAY gets to know your objectives, audiences, speakers and constraints. He helps structure the session: discussion angles, speaking order, useful questions, transitions, time set aside for the audience and the essential messages to bring out.
This preparation makes it possible to:
- keep to the planned timetable and sequence;
- avoid repetition and overly predictable talking points;
- give each speaker fair and purposeful space;
- maintain a considered, comfortable pace for the audience;
- create natural links between expertise, debate and interaction.
On the day, the framework is sound. The conversation can remain lively.
Presence, clarity and confidence
A moderator who also puts your speakers at ease.
A high-level panel discussion rests on the quality of its ideas, but also on the ability of those presenting them to speak with clarity, presence and ease.
An established coach for high-stakes public speaking, Patrick JAY has supported leaders, experts and spokespeople for many years. The author of eight books on professional communication and public speaking, he knows precisely what can stop a speaker performing at their best: pressure, apprehension, difficulty in synthesising, lack of reference points or fear of the unexpected.
Before and during the event, he provides attentive, consistent and supportive contact. He helps participants clarify their contribution, feel fully at home in the conversation and speak with greater calm, precision and confidence.
This quality of relationship does not turn your experts into formulaic communicators. On the contrary, it enables them to express their expertise fully, in their own words and with their own personality, while keeping a clear focus on what your audience expects.
Better-supported speakers. More balanced conversations. A better-served audience.
A complete approach to the conversation
Momentum, fairness, precision and intercultural awareness.
Momentum, fairness and precision
Patrick JAY monitors speaking time, the quality of transitions and the balance between participants. He helps everyone get to the point while allowing the nuances that give debate its value to emerge. His style is direct, attentive and respectful; the atmosphere remains professional, constructive and accessible.
Bilingual French–English
His experience of multicultural settings goes beyond translating words: references, degrees of formality, ways of expressing disagreement and patterns of reasoning all inform how he leads the conversation. Everyone can follow, contribute and fully grasp what is at stake.
Paris, a European base
Based in Paris, Patrick JAY can readily attend your events in France, across Europe and around the Mediterranean, on site, remotely or in hybrid formats.
Which formats?
Every format deserves an approach designed around its audience.
Panel discussions and expert debates
Conferences and corporate conventions
Forums and institutional gatherings
Client and partner events
Leadership seminars
Audience Q&A sessions
Bilingual French–English events
Hybrid or digital formats
Your content deserves more than a succession of speeches.
“Your event remains in command of its substance. Patrick JAY ensures its flow, momentum and impact.”Moderation in the service of your speakers, your messages and your audience
PATRICK JAY
BILINGUAL MODERATOR · FACILITATOR
Two professional cultures
Journalist, host and communications coach.
Experience that enables him to quickly understand the issues, personalities and subject matter.
- Former television host and commentator.
- Business journalist for broadcast and print media.
- Lead journalist for Fiat Auto France’s corporate television channel for three years.
- Author of business reports and corporate interviews.
- Media-training and public-speaking coach for high-profile companies.
- Founder and director of PatrickJAYCommunications.
Fluent in French and English, Patrick JAY brings the same exacting standards to assignments in Paris, throughout France and internationally.
They have placed their trust in him
Different worlds, different subjects, one shared standard: make the conversation come alive.
Your project
Your content deserves more than a succession of speeches.
Give your experts a framework that brings out their strengths. Give your audience conversations they can genuinely follow, understand and remember.
Let’s discuss your next event
+33 (0)6 07 19 18 42
contact@patrickjaycommunications.fr