Your people have the expertise. Can they communicate it with confidence, credibility, and influence when it matters most?
Executive Presence and Communication Training for Leaders & Teams
High-stakes communication changes everything.
A presentation to senior leadership. A difficult conversation. A client pitch. A career conversation. A room full of people waiting to hear what you have to say…
What Changes When Your People Communicate With Presence?
When professionals learn to regulate pressure and communicate from a grounded, confident place, people experience them differently. Their ideas land. Their expertise becomes visible. And they’re better equipped to influence the conversations and decisions that drive the business forward.
Participants develop the ability to:
- Communicate with confidence and credibility under pressure.
- Use body language that reinforces authority and expertise
- Develop a stronger, more resonant leadership voice
- Present ideas clearly and persuasively
- Stay grounded during difficult or high-stakes conversations
- Build trust and connection with audiences, colleagues and clients
- Speak up with greater confidence in meetings and leadership conversations
Training Experiences
Interactive, experiential training designed to give leaders and teams practical communication skills they can use immediately—in meetings, presentations, difficult conversations, and high-stakes moments.
Activating Executive Presence
Develop the embodied skills that communicate confidence, credibility, and authority. Participants learn to use posture, body language, breath, voice, and nervous-system regulation to create a presence that feels powerful without feeling performed.
Speaking With Impact & Influence
Turn expertise into communication that gets heard. Participants learn to organize and deliver ideas with greater clarity, strengthen vocal and physical presence, engage an audience, and communicate in ways that influence action and decisions.
Communicating Under Pressure
Pressure changes how we breathe, move, think, and speak. Participants learn practical tools to regulate their nervous system, stay grounded, think more clearly, and communicate with confidence when the stakes are high.
Available as keynotes, interactive workshops, team trainings, and customized programs for your organization.
Who This Training Is For
Designed for organizations that want their people to communicate with greater confidence, credibility, and influence—especially when the stakes are high.
This training is especially valuable for:
- Leaders and emerging leaders stepping into greater visibility and responsibility
- Women’s leadership programs and Employee Resource Groups
- Communications and cross-functional teams who need to influence across an organization
- Sales and client-facing professionals presenting ideas, solutions, and recommendations
- Technical and subject-matter experts who need to communicate complex ideas with clarity and authority
- Professionals preparing for presentations, executive meetings, career conversations, or other high-stakes moments
Every program can be customized around your organization, audience, and communication challenges.
Leadership Presence is Embodied.
Executive presence isn’t something you put on. It’s something you embody.
Sharon’s approach integrates more than 23 years of expertise in the Alexander Technique with executive presence, public speaking, vocal presence, and nervous system regulation.
Participants learn to recognize and change the physical habits that can undermine their communication under pressure—tightening, collapsing, rushing, holding the breath, diminishing their voice, or making themselves physically smaller.
Through experiential exercises and real-time practice, they develop a more grounded body, freer breath, resonant voice, and confident physical presence.
The result is communication that feels authentic rather than performed—and a presence that allows their expertise to be seen, heard, and trusted.
The 3 Pillars of Executive Presence
Embody Confidence
Develop a grounded body and regulated nervous system so confidence and credibility are communicated before you even speak.
Amplify Your Voice
Strengthen vocal presence so ideas are expressed with clarity, resonance, and authority.
Inspire Trust
Create authentic connection through calm, credible communication that helps others listen, engage, and act.
Meet Your Facilitator
Sharon Jakubecy is an Executive Presence and public speaking coach, corporate facilitator, and Alexander Technique teacher with more than 23 years of experience helping people communicate with greater confidence, clarity, and authority.
Her work bridges the body and the message—helping professionals regulate pressure, strengthen vocal and physical presence, and communicate their expertise in ways that build trust and influence.
Sharon has worked with corporate teams and professionals across industries, as well as performers seen on television and film. Her clients have included attorneys, physicians, investment bankers, executives, and other professionals navigating high-stakes communication.
Her work has been featured by NPR, HuffPost, Inc., Backstage, and other media, and she has taught at the Stella Adler Studio and American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Trusted By Organizations Including: Media Arts Lab • Grifols Biologicals • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles • LA Philharmonic • Human Coach • OCoaching •
What Clients Are Saying
“We just launched a Health program at Media Arts Lab and Sharon was our opening speaker. Being in the advertising industry, many of our employees work sitting at the computer for long hours and express to HR that they are concerned for the health of their backs. Sharon’s agency talk, “Healthy Pain-Free Posture: Taking Care of Your Bodies While Taking Care of Business”, was enlightening and inspiring for our employees. I have never seen such a big turn out at one of our talks! People want to learn about ways to better their health and Sharon was able to help us start healthier initiatives within our office in a wonderful light. We hope to bring her back soon to run a workshop on another topic. For the sake of your employees, I highly recommend booking Sharon for your event.” -Brittany LaRoche, Associate HR Generalist at TBWA/Media Arts Lab
“Sharon’s talk was the best and most informative speech that we have seen at our agency in awhile. It’s s topic that we all care about and can benefit from.” – Bianca Wilson, Associate BA Manager at Media Arts Lab
PR expert Lisa Elia brought Sharon in to prepare clients for media interviews and lead an audience warm-up and body language training at Meet the Media Day.
