Executive presence · Keynotes · Leadership Advisory
A 2,000-seat auditorium and a boardroom ask for the same discipline: control of your breath, control of your nerves, and the ability to hold a room without forcing it. Drawing on more than thirty years of featured and principal West End performance, speechwriting and vocal discipline, I translate stagecraft into presence for leaders, keynote speakers and high-stakes teams.
Core Disciplines
45–60 minutes
Bespoke, 4–6 weeks
Up to 15 leaders, 3-hour intensive
“Credibility isn’t built by volume. It’s built by resonance. Three decades at the centre of the professional stage teaches you that presence isn’t a gift you’re born with. It’s a repeatable physical and narrative technique.”
— McCALLAM CONNELL
Principal roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the West End.
Vocal coach, character actor and storyteller, published songwriter.
Bringing the rigour of classical performance to corporate authority.
Keynote Themes
What a live audience teaches that no rehearsal can: performing when the stakes are public, there’s no margin, and the show goes on regardless.
Why some leaders are believed and others are only heard. Breath, pace, pitch and silence as instruments of authority.
The Dual-Advantage Model
Structure, argument and cadence built for the speaking voice, not the page: written to be heard once, not read again.
Rehearsal in the director’s sense: pacing, emphasis, breath, body language and holding a room through the pause.
Pressure Q&A, hostile questions, autocue and lectern discipline, and recovering when the technology fails mid-sentence.
I take on a limited number of private advisory sessions and keynotes each quarter, around my creative contracts. Please send me your dates, the scope of the event and your main objective.
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