You don't need to become a different person. You need the craft that makes the person you already are land in a room.
I work one-to-one with professionals, founders and senior leaders — in person in London, or online.
A keynote. A pitch. A board presentation. An interview, a panel, a wedding speech. It's in the diary, it matters enormously, and you've started waking up thinking about it. We build the thing itself — the words, the delivery, the recovery if it goes wrong — and rehearse until it holds under pressure. You walk in having already done it a dozen times.
Typically 2–4 sessions, fitted around your deadline.
No single event. Just the accumulated cost of a career spent not quite saying the thing — meetings you didn't speak in, opportunities you let pass, feedback about “presence” that nobody ever explained. We rebuild it properly from the ground up: voice, presence, structure, and the ability to think clearly while people are looking at you. This is the one that changes your working life.
Typically 6–8 sessions over a few months.
Every session is practical. You will speak out loud in all of them. Nothing here is theory.
Breath support, projection, pace, pitch and the pause. Most people are using a fraction of the voice they have, and this is usually the fastest visible win.
What's actually happening physiologically, and how to work with adrenaline rather than fight it. Including what to do in the ninety seconds before you stand up.
How to structure something so people remember it. Openings that earn attention, arguments that build, and endings that land instead of trailing off.
Holding attention, handling the hostile question, recovering when technology fails or your mind goes blank. Rehearsed in advance, so it isn't a crisis on the day.
Video calls have their own rules: eye line, framing, how to get into a conversation without talking over three people.
The end point isn't a polished corporate persona. It's you, at full volume, sounding like the person your close colleagues already know.
No fixed curriculum. We start where you are and build the work around it.
Twenty minutes, free. You tell me what's coming up, or what's been quietly wearing you down. I tell you honestly whether I can help — and if I'm not the right person, I'll say so.
Not an off-the-shelf course. We start from your deadline, your material and the one thing that's actually holding you back, and shape the sessions around it.
You're on your feet and out loud from the first session. We rehearse under realistic pressure — the hostile question, the tech failure, the blank mind — until it holds. So the real thing feels like something you've already done.
Why it's worth the work
Speaking well isn't the goal — it's the lever. Here's what tends to move once it does, roughly in the order it happens.
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You stop rehearsing what you should have said. You say it the first time, in the room, while it still counts.
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The panel invite, the client meeting, the “can you present this to the board?” — moments that used to go to someone louder start coming to you.
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Visibility compounds. When decision-makers can see how you think, promotion and pay conversations stop depending on someone else noticing you.
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You're clearer, so you're easier to work with. Less gets lost in translation, and people trust what you say because they can follow it.
A few words from people who used to dread standing up.
“I’d been told for years that I needed more ‘presence’, but no one could really explain what that meant. Sophie did, and, more importantly, she showed me how to do it. I ended up chairing the board meeting without notes.”
“I had two sessions with Sophie before my keynote. I actually walked onto the stage looking forward to it, which has never happened before.”
“It wasn’t just about building my confidence. Sophie taught me the actual skills behind it, and you can tell she really knows her stuff.”
The ninety seconds before you speak are where most of it is won or lost. I've put what to do with them into a short, free guide — practical, and no marketing avalanche afterwards. Read it, try it before your next meeting, and see for yourself.
The 90 Seconds Before You Speak
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Every meeting you stay quiet in, someone less capable gets remembered instead. One conversation starts to change that. Book a free 20-minute discovery call: tell me what's coming up, and I'll show you exactly how we'd fix it and what it would take. No obligation, no pitch — just the clearest picture you've had of what changes when you finally sound as good as you are.