Speak With Confidence. Captivate Any Audience
I help executives, business professionals, TEDx speakers and high performers turn high-stakes moments into career-defining performances. Using techniques drawn from 20 years onstage and screen, I’ll teach you to command any room you walk into.
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The Actor's 3-Minute Breathing Ritual for Confident Public Speaking
The breathing exercises I teach every client, and the ones that got me through my own TEDx talk. Three techniques, three minutes, and a calmer, more confident you before every presentation, pitch or interview.
Inside you’ll learn:
- The Calming Breath: settle your nerves before high-pressure moments
- The Energy Breath: bring life and presence to your delivery
- The Balance Breath: find focus and clarity when your mind is racing
- Plus: your 3-minute pre-stage ritual, ready to save to your phone
You're exceptional at what you do. But when it's time to speak, something shifts...
Maybe it’s the board presentation where your anxiety soars and your ideas come out flat. The pitch meeting where a less qualified competitor wins the room because they simply present better. Or the team that doesn’t follow your lead because your communication lacks authority or conviction.
Poor communication doesn’t just cost confidence. It costs clients, deals, promotions—and the trust of the people you lead.
That gap between knowing your stuff and delivering it with real presence and impact?
That's exactly where I work.
This is performance coaching for high stake moments.
Most speaking coaches teach you to follow a formula. Stand here. Pause there. Use these hand gestures. It's mechanical, and your audience can feel it.
I take a completely different approach. With over 20 years as a professional actress, including roles on Netflix and stages across Europe and the US, I've spent my career mastering what makes an audience lean in. And I've distilled those techniques into a method designed specifically for professionals who need to perform at the highest level, not on a stage, but in the moments that shape their careers.
See What I OfferPresence
Command Attention Before You Say a Word
Using techniques from professional theatre, you'll learn how actors own a room from the moment they step into it. Body language, spatial awareness, breathing, and the subtle art of stillness. These aren't tips you read in a book. They're skills you practise until they become instinct.
Voice
Make Every Word Land
Your voice is the most powerful instrument you own, and most people use a fraction of it. You'll learn to control pace, pitch, pause and resonance so that what you say carries weight, holds attention, and sounds like someone worth listening to.
Connection
Speak So People Actually Listen
It doesn't matter how polished you are if the room feels nothing. You'll learn to read an audience, hold genuine eye contact, and create the sense that you're speaking to each person directly, the difference between being heard and being remembered.
Story
Turn Information Into Something Unforgettable
Facts inform, but stories move people to act. You'll learn to structure your message the way the best speakers do, so a pitch, a keynote, or a difficult conversation becomes something your audience leans into and carries with them long after you've finished.
HOW I CAN HELP
I offer three ways to work together,
each one tailored to where you are and what you need.
Corporate Training Programs
Interactive group trainings for teams and individuals, covering everything from confident public speaking and persuasive communication to assertiveness, storytelling, improvisation, and team building. Eight distinct programmes, each built around real practice and direct feedback.
TEDx & Keynote Speaker Coaching
You’ve landed the talk. Now you need it to be extraordinary. I’ve coached over 25 TEDx speakers to success on the red dot, and my own TEDx talk earned the rare Editor’s Pick distinction (top 0.07% of all TEDx speakers). From shaping your idea to mastering your delivery, I’ll guide you through every step.
1:1 Communication Coaching
Personalised coaching for professionals who want to transform how they communicate. Whether you’re preparing for a specific high-stakes moment or building long-term confidence, these sessions are designed entirely around you. Available in person (Florence) or online worldwide.
SEE ME IN ACTION
"The Secret to Looking More Confident"
In this talk, I share the one technique actors use every night to walk on stage and instantly appear confident, even when they’re terrified. It’s the same technique I teach my executive clients, my TEDx speakers, and the corporate teams I train around the world.
TEDx Editor’s Pick | Top 0.07% of All TEDx Talks
THE RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
What Clients Say?
Michele Capecchi
Attorney, Managing Partner at Studio Legale Capecchi, International Legal Practice
"Her targeted public speaking exercises enhanced my ability to captivate the jury. I've adopted a more conversational style, maintained better eye contact, and learned to use strategic pauses. In my most recent trial, I secured a 30-year conviction."
Vandana Pathak
Public Relations Professional, P4C.in
"I had the absolute pleasure of being in Elia's class at The European school of Economics (Florence). Before joining Elia's class I had the misconception that I did not need a class on Public speaking. I opted for her class by chance and I couldn't have been more elated with this choice. Elia is a master of the art of personal (self) improvement and she makes everyone record the process every step of the way through videos and photos. By the end of the term, I had recorded evidence of the immense changes my confidence, speech and posture had gone through for the better."
Guido Clary
Head of Regional Hub for North Africa and the Near East, European Investment Bank
"Elia is an outstanding communication coach. She has not only supported me on various challenges but she has been able to understand my business background, to capture the key elements of the challenge and to steer my performance in the right direction. Everyone who works with the media, who needs to pass a job interview or is eager to improve communication skills will not have a marginal improvement working with Elia but a radical one."
Dr. Renee St Jacques
TEDx Speaker, Psychologist & Certified Executive Coach (PCC) for Microsoft
"Elia is absolutely phenomenal - what I appreciate most about Elia is not only her effective, distinctive, and empathetic coaching style but her impressive acting and technical theater background that equips her with so many more tools in her toolbox and insights than the typical speech coach to support her clients. She helped transform my public speaking in my articulation, pitch range, and tempo - I literally would have never been aware of my deficits as a speaker and have a route to improvement if it wasn't for her incredible coaching. I LOVE working with Elia!"
THE RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
What Clients Say?
Michele Capecchi
"Her targeted public speaking exercises enhanced my ability to captivate the jury. I've adopted a more conversational style, maintained better eye contact, and learned to use strategic pauses. In my most recent trial, I secured a 30-year conviction."
Vandana Pathak
Public Relations Professional, P4C.in
"I had the absolute pleasure of being in Elia's class at The European school of Economics (Florence). Before joining Elia's class I had the misconception that I did not need a class on Public speaking. I opted for her class by chance and I couldn't have been more elated with this choice. Elia is a master of the art of personal (self) improvement and she makes everyone record the process every step of the way through videos and photos. By the end of the term, I had recorded evidence of the immense changes my confidence, speech and posture had gone through for the better."
Guido Clary
Head of Regional Hub for North Africa and the Near East, European Investment Bank
"Elia is an outstanding communication coach. She has not only supported me on various challenges but she has been able to understand my business background, to capture the key elements of the challenge and to steer my performance in the right direction. Everyone who works with the media, who needs to pass a job interview or is eager to improve communication skills will not have a marginal improvement working with Elia but a radical one."
Dr. Renee St Jacques
TEDx Speaker, Psychologist & Certified Executive Coach (PCC) for Microsoft
"Elia is absolutely phenomenal - what I appreciate most about Elia is not only her effective, distinctive, and empathetic coaching style but her impressive acting and technical theater background that equips her with so many more tools in her toolbox and insights than the typical speech coach to support her clients. She helped transform my public speaking in my articulation, pitch range, and tempo - I literally would have never been aware of my deficits as a speaker and have a route to improvement if it wasn't for her incredible coaching. I LOVE working with Elia!"
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MEET YOUR COACH
From 
to the Boardroom.
I never planned to become a communication coach. I planned to be an actress. And I was, for over two decades, performing across stages in Europe and the United States, and onscreen in multiple films and tv shows including a Netflix series broadcast in 180 countries. But somewhere along the way, I realised that the techniques I used every night to hold an audience were the exact skills that the brilliant professionals around me were missing. So I started coaching. And everything changed.
PUBLIC SPEAKING AND COMMUNICATIONS COACH AND ACTRESS
Ready to communicate the best of yourself? Let’s talk about how I can help.
Whether you’re preparing your team for a major pitch, stepping onto a TEDx stage, or simply ready to speak with more confidence and impact, let’s talk about how I can help.
or email me directly at inquiries@elianichols.com