How do you capture and hold attention?
How do you and your message resonate with your audience?

This is a course where you learn powerful communication skills where people remember who you are and what you say.

Have you ever found yourself struggling to get your voice heard to inspire action from your listener?

Our course is designed to equip you with the essential skills needed to excel in communication, particularly in challenging scenarios.

We focus on three key aspects:
Presence, Resonant Content, and Voice

The course is delivered in three parts

  • Part One
    Presence + Impact

    What is Presence?
    When you walk into the room people notice. When you speak, people listen.

  • Part Two
    Create Resonant Content

    To be heard, you must speak the language of the one you want to listen.

  • Part Three
    Physical & Vocal Presence

    You have a great message but do you have the voice to deliver it with impact?
    Master communicators have their voice, gestures, and facial expressions match their message.

Get yourself heard and listened to.

Presence is a subtle, yet powerful aspect of your communication and it's often noticed even even before you speaking a word.
These skills are taught here.

When you need to influence without authority.
When you need to be seen and respected as the subject matter expert.
When you need to feel calm, at ease and confident even in extreme and uncertain situations.


How we help you:


You get a step-by-step process that helps to connect your brain to your body that give you skills you can count on even under pressure.

Have you ever felt like this?

My content doesn’t connect with my listeners

I don’t seem to drive action, gain buy in, or get alignment from others.

My audience doesn’t find my offer different to others’.

I don’t feel that I have a memorable impact on my listeners.

I’d like to know how to select content that resonates with people.

I often don’t have a clue where I’m going or I lose my place when I deliver my message.

Here is how we help you:

  • When you learn to speak their “language” – not yours – when you make it about them and not you – you resonate with the listener. Your message becomes highly relevant to them.

  • With our step-by-step process, you learn how to:
    Align with their values
    Understand their preferences for giving and receiving information.
    Ask questions and listen and a whole deeper level.
    Build rapport and relationship with your audience.
    Learn to create objective driven content and deliver it in a sequence that makes sense to your listeners.

My Clients Tell Me...

As a result of this work...

They are able to see the connection between how their content is believed and acted upon by others, particularly with diverse audiences.
They also tell me that by focusing on rapport, connection, and understanding core values that they have the greater advantage that gains buy-in, alignment, and maintains relationships with their stakeholders.


This, paired with the ease and comfort they receive from the presence, along with the physical and vocal presence work, is unparalleled.

Do any of these ring true?

  • I want to be regarded as a leader or as an expert but I don’t believe I am seen as one.

  • I don’t often feel comfortable or confident in my Voice. I speak too fast, too soft…

  • I lack animation because I don’t know what is “too much”.

  • People don’t remember me or what I’ve said.

  • I want the confidence that I have in my work to show, but I don’t know how.

We work with you on vocal dynamics and physical presence through gesture, movement, facial expressions, stance and eye contact.

Where other methods of executive coaching might address this in a general way, because of my extensive training in theatre, voice, improvisation and performance I am able to break things down much further and more specifically.

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About Me

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.