What if you were able to more easily move people to take action?

Having all the right elements is key.
Preparation is key to your success.

  • Don't miss the opportunity: "I travelled overseas for a critical meeting. I didn't adequately prepare. When it was time for me to speak, I was blank." a highly seasoned C-Level leader.

  • Be ready for anything: An extremely accomplished leader - "In investor meetings, I just freeze."

  • Handle the impromptu moment: "I was unaware of this meeting, therefore I hadn't prepared for it. Questions were thrown at me that I absolutely know the answers to, and yet I was unable to respond." - Executive in a new leadership role running the business.

  • It's relational; not transactional: "I experience leadership wanting to prove the business case first rather than do the deeper work of gaining rapport and trust with the client. ~ Partner in Professional Services Firm

Foundations offer you the tangible tools to craft your communications.

Have all the right elements for connecting to the real needs of your audience.

Align your physical expression. Gain the skills of presence, listening, and thinking on your feet.

Here you will find a defined process and approach.
Build alignment and buy-in to help move people to take right action.


Build rapport with your diverse audiences.

Connect with tailored messages that resonate.
Deliver them with a full and powerful presence.

What if you connect to your listeners by reflecting their values, their lived experiences and needs?

You are able to fully differentiate yourself from other providers based upon your understanding of the real needs of your audience.

  • Make it About Them

    Unique to this learning is the advantage of seeing not how you want to communicate with your audience – but how your audience prefers to be communicated with.

  • Learn Their Values

    Learn about the role of Rapport.
    With rapport you get better answers to your questions.

    Find about their core values to connect with them.
    Be resonant and relevant to their real needs and lived concerns.

  • Learn About Them

    Give Full Attention.
    Ask the right questions and listen.
    This is the key to understanding what is necessary to satisfy your stakeholders.
    Build unbreakable relationships.

  • PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE
    This is an active learn-by-doing approach

This course is for you if:

You must have immediate impact and results with your communication.

  • Get the right kind of preparation that is efficient and highly effective for your interactions.

  • You assiduously work on your content for your presentations or interactions and yet it doesn’t have the intended effect on your listeners.

  • You believe that your content is air-tight though you are not gaining the buy-in you need.

  • You find it difficult to connect with certain audiences to build trust and rapport needed to deepen the relationship.

  • You look to become more comfortable in your skin to assert yourself in certain interactions & presentations.

  • You have experience in communicating and presenting, and yet you'd like to sharpen your skills.

This Course is in Two Parts:
The What & The How

  • Foundations

    Get this right by gaining trust, rapport and deeper relationships that will have you to build alignment, buy-in, and inspire people to take right action.

    Find structures, models and principles that create resonant and relevant content. Connect with your audience as you have built communication around their preferences and values.

    Structures have you organize and present the right amount of the right kind of insight and information.
    You gain greater clarity to your objective.

  • Physical Expression

    Learn those elements, practices and principles that magnify your presence, command and impact for a long-lasting positive impression.
    You gain ease, comfort and greater confidence when you are open, present and connected.

    Physical Expression includes focus on voice dynamics, stance, gesture, posture, movement and facial expression.
    This is what people are drawn to and remember.

  • In Part 1 Foundations

    It is important to note that a portion of the work is standing on the shoulders of the brilliant Peter Rogen, a teacher of mine.

When you engage in this work, you’ll be able to:

  • Read and assess your audience; more easily build rapport; understand their core values to become most resonant and relevant to them.

  • Ask better questions and listen at an ever deeper level.

  • Craft communications and presentations that create more meaning while using structures to cut down on preparation time.

  • Use your body, face, and voice to amplify your presence.

  • Find your undeniable presence to capture and hold the attention of your listeners.

  • Hold tools of preparation allows you to show up every time with the utmost confidence.

Get on the Waitlist

You are contacted when dates are set up.

We cap our classes at 6-8 people max so that you receive personalized attention and hands on coaching and practice.


Corporate Groups - contact me to arrange specifically for your company/team.

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Course Modules

Together we build a practice

Foundations

Introduction

Lesson 1 - Stages of Preparation. Meet the Class

Lesson 2 - Benchmark Communication

Audience Analysis

Lesson 3 - Communicate with Diverse Audiences 

Lesson 4 - Understanding Core Values

Lesson 5 - Probing Questions and Listening

Content & Structure

Lesson 6 - Organizing Your Thoughts & Ideas + Resonant Content

Lesson 7 - Summary & Wrap Up + Prepare for Physical Expression

Physical Expression

Lesson 1 - Align the Physical.  The Elements of Presence + Postural Communication.

Rehearse, Present, Physical Practices

Lesson 2 - The Energy of Presence + Voice Part 1 - Get Yourself Heard 

Lesson 3 - Voice Part 2 - Vocal Dynamics

Lesson 4 -  Gestures/Movement/Facial Expression/Eye Contact 

Lesson 5 - Final Communication - Present using the skills you've acquired + Wrap Up



How are Sessions Conducted

  • Each session offers you pre-recorded lessons that include models, principles, skills and concepts to be reviewed prior to the live lessons of practice.

    You receive timed access to the pre-recorded lessons that are about 20 minutes in length.

  • Live Lessons are for Practice. Skills are best integrated when they are practiced. Your real-time communication are used for the applications.

  • Non judgmental feedback is offered with recommendations of what to do instead.

  • There is timed access to resources such as worksheet and exercises for you to use.

Things to Know Before You Enroll

  • You are required to be present at the Live Sessions with your camera on.

  • Live Sessions are NOT recorded to afford you the privacy to try out new skills and behaviors in a safe and supportive environment.

Your Instructor

Martha Gelnaw

Hi there!

My name is Martha and I’m a communication coach based in New York City. Over my 20+ years coaching, I’ve found that I enjoy supporting people to get their messages and their voice heard – and acted upon. This way, they can make a contribution and enjoy their work with great comfort and ease.

Our work is to build trust in our understanding and to create confidence in our listener’s knowledge so that they will align and take right action. How we appeal to others and their values is crucial. It’s not transactional - it’s relational - relationships matter.

I offer coaching and courses that are well-suited to help leaders, emerging leaders, young professionals, students and women express themselves with a true and powerful presence aligned with their deepest values and desires.

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