For coaches and consultants
When the work stops being about the message.
You already have the client. You have already diagnosed the thinking, the structure and the story. And then there is a point where none of that is the problem any more.
“He is brilliant, and he still does not command the room.” That sentence is where my work starts and yours usually stops.
Why this comes up
Executive coaching, leadership work and presentation training all operate above the neck. They fix what someone says and how they structure it, which is most of the job and often all of it.
But some clients go through all of that and still do not land. The content is now excellent and the room still does not move. At that point the problem is physical: where the breath sits, what the pace does under challenge, whether the sentence endings drop.
That is not a failure of your work. It is a different discipline, and almost nobody is trained to hear it.
What I actually do
I work on the mechanics: breath, pace, pitch, pause and projection, on the client’s own material. Six sessions is typical, sometimes one before a specific room.
I do not do mindset, confidence work, messaging or slide structure. Those are yours and I will not touch them.
And I am not a speech therapist. If there is hoarseness, pain or loss of range I send the client to an ENT and tell you.
How referrals work
Send me the client or send me a recording. I listen and tell you within two working days whether this is vocal or whether it is something you are already better placed to fix. If it is the second, I say so and the client goes back to you.
I work alongside you, not instead of you. I will not take over the relationship, extend into leadership coaching, or pitch the client anything outside the vocal work.
If you want, I will send you a short written note of what I heard so you can keep working with the same diagnosis.
Who I already work with this way
Executive coaches and leadership consultants. Presentation and media trainers. Learning and development teams inside law firms and investment firms. Executive search and career advisers preparing candidates for final panels.
The pattern is the same: the adviser has the relationship and knows the room; I take the sixty to ninety minutes of technical work that neither of us wants left undone.
What I bring that a voice coach usually does not
Ten years in banking and corporate finance: HSBC, EY and JLL. I have sat in investment committees and client pitches.
So I do not need the room explained to me, and your client does not have to translate their world before we can start. That tends to matter more than it sounds.
A board meeting, a hearing, an investor pitch, a promotion panel, a team that is not landing. No form and no discovery call, and I reply within two working days. If you already have a recording of yourself in a real meeting, send it and I will tell you what I hear.